# Hamish Burke

Software engineer at Alphero, in Wellington. Most of what’s here I built on my own time, then tried to break.

[About me](/about)

[View case study](/work/the-city)

## [The City](/work/the-city)

I saw [AI Office](https://sael.net/ai-office) showing Claude Code agents as robots at desks, and wanted something that fitted the way I work. In The City, each project folder is a building and each team has a floor of robots, so I can see which ones need me.

[View case study](/work/you-inc)

## [You Inc](/work/you-inc)

I wanted one view of what I own, owe, earn and spend. I built You Inc around a ledger, then took the accounts and billing back out so people could run it on their own machine.

Writing

## [Sharing my GPU with friends](/posts/building-a-private-ai-server-for-friends)

Sharing a GPU with friends sounded like a weekend of work. The real problem was who is allowed to reach the hardware, and what a cost figure means when most of it is allocation rather than measurement.

[Read the story ](/posts/building-a-private-ai-server-for-friends)[All writing](/work?type=writing)

[View case study](/work/sprint-coach)

## [Sprint Coach](/work/sprint-coach)

Nathan’s coaching business grew by word of mouth. His first website needed to show athletes and parents who they would be training with, and make the next step easy.

[Read the write-up](/work/home-lab)

## [Home Lab](/work/home-lab)

What would happen if I lost the machine running my home services? I built a small server around that question, then tested a full recovery.

## Reading

A shelf of what I’ve read and what I’m on now, with a note under each about how I came to it.

[On my bookshelf](/reading)

[Read the story](/work/gpu-share)

## [GPUShare](/work/gpu-share)

My desktop GPU sits idle most of the day. I built a way for friends to share it for local AI and rendering, with the limits of a home machine visible.

[All work](/work?type=work)