Hamish Burke is a software developer in Wellington, New Zealand. Independent projects, client work, and notes on AI and software systems. https://hamishburke.com/work en-nz hamishapps@gmail.com (Hamish Burke) hamishapps@gmail.com (Hamish Burke) Mon, 02 Nov 2026 12:19:58 GMT https://hamishburke.com/work/personal-language-corpus https://hamishburke.com/work/personal-language-corpus Built a local workflow for importing language samples with provenance and comparing quantitative features with source-linked observations. Fri, 02 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT hamishapps@gmail.com (Hamish Burke) PythonWriting toolsResearch https://hamishburke.com/work/the-city https://hamishburke.com/work/the-city Built a macOS app that runs Claude Code jobs as a city of robot-staffed offices, where every animation comes from a real event in the CLI’s stream. Sun, 27 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT hamishapps@gmail.com (Hamish Burke) AIArchitectureUX design https://hamishburke.com/work/typed-diff-questions https://hamishburke.com/work/typed-diff-questions Built an experiment harness comparing models on narrow questions about code diffs, with calibration and class-balanced evaluation. Mon, 21 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT hamishapps@gmail.com (Hamish Burke) AIDeveloper toolsResearch https://hamishburke.com/work/conversational-timing-lab https://hamishburke.com/work/conversational-timing-lab Built a speech-timing dataset and baseline evaluation to study turn completion and response onset in real conversations. Fri, 04 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT hamishapps@gmail.com (Hamish Burke) VoiceMachine learningResearch https://hamishburke.com/work/sprint-coach https://hamishburke.com/work/sprint-coach Designed and built the first website for a Wellington sprint coaching business, from creative direction through to production launch. Sun, 09 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT hamishapps@gmail.com (Hamish Burke) Front-end developmentUX design https://hamishburke.com/work/wake-on-join-minecraft https://hamishburke.com/work/wake-on-join-minecraft Built an AWS Minecraft setup that sleeps when idle and wakes when somebody tries to join, with infrastructure templates and a runbook. Sun, 26 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT hamishapps@gmail.com (Hamish Burke) Cloud infrastructureGamesAutomation https://hamishburke.com/work/brontehf https://hamishburke.com/work/brontehf Built an editor-friendly portfolio from the client’s design. Fri, 03 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT hamishapps@gmail.com (Hamish Burke) Front-end development https://hamishburke.com/work/you-inc https://hamishburke.com/work/you-inc Built a personal-finance ERP with a double-entry ledger, Akahu bank sync and configurable dashboards, then took the commercial layer back out and made it self-hosted and MIT licensed. Tue, 30 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT hamishapps@gmail.com (Hamish Burke) FinanceArchitectureData pipelinesSelf-hostedFront-end developmentUX design https://hamishburke.com/work/otto https://hamishburke.com/work/otto Developed a native Swift version of a Mac voice assistant, with hotkeys, capability retrieval, session logs and local retrospective learning. Sat, 20 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT hamishapps@gmail.com (Hamish Burke) AIVoiceSwiftmacOS https://hamishburke.com/work/lumen https://hamishburke.com/work/lumen Built a local research system for Obsidian, with related-note surfacing, retrieval, report generation and checks against source blocks. Sat, 16 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT hamishapps@gmail.com (Hamish Burke) AIObsidianPython https://hamishburke.com/work/synod https://hamishburke.com/work/synod Built an Obsidian plugin that reads journal entries through separate value agents and compiles their unresolved tensions into a bulletin. Thu, 14 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT hamishapps@gmail.com (Hamish Burke) AIObsidianTypeScript https://hamishburke.com/work/flat-power-calculator https://hamishburke.com/work/flat-power-calculator Built a small web tool for calculating and communicating the flat electricity-bill split, with a Home Assistant integration module. Tue, 21 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT hamishapps@gmail.com (Hamish Burke) TypeScriptFinanceAutomation https://hamishburke.com/posts/splitting-the-stack-and-making-setup-actually-work https://hamishburke.com/posts/splitting-the-stack-and-making-setup-actually-work I split GPUShare’s accounts from the hardware services, then found the installer still pointed at a service I’d removed. Thu, 26 Mar 2026 04:43:00 GMT hamishapps@gmail.com (Hamish Burke) ArchitectureSelf-hostedAIEconomics https://hamishburke.com/work/gpu-share https://hamishburke.com/work/gpu-share Built a self-hosted platform for trusted users to share local AI inference and Blender rendering, with optional cloud routing and estimated usage-cost allocation. Thu, 26 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT hamishapps@gmail.com (Hamish Burke) AIArchitectureSelf-hostedEconomicsFront-end developmentUX design https://hamishburke.com/posts/building-a-private-ai-server-for-friends https://hamishburke.com/posts/building-a-private-ai-server-for-friends I built GPUShare around my desktop GPU. The accounts, routing and cost estimates ended up needing as much explanation as the hardware. Sat, 21 Mar 2026 07:33:00 GMT hamishapps@gmail.com (Hamish Burke) Self-hostedAIEconomicsArchitecture https://hamishburke.com/work/drop-eta https://hamishburke.com/work/drop-eta Built a delivery planner with address lookup, stop ordering, ETA calculations and previews of where a new stop fits. Fri, 20 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT hamishapps@gmail.com (Hamish Burke) TypeScriptTransportProduct design https://hamishburke.com/reports/grid-diffusion-anomaly-detection https://hamishburke.com/reports/grid-diffusion-anomaly-detection The paper behind Grid Diffusion AD: discrete diffusion over quantised magnetic-field windows, trained on normal data only, scored against a false-alarm budget. The best configuration separated faults from normal weakly, and the paper reports that instead of rounding it up. Sun, 08 Feb 2026 03:33:15 GMT hamishapps@gmail.com (Hamish Burke) Machine learningResearchTime seriesAI https://hamishburke.com/posts/healthagent-apple-health-data-ingestion-and-insights https://hamishburke.com/posts/healthagent-apple-health-data-ingestion-and-insights I brought my nutrition and activity data out of Apple Health and into Postgres, so I could compare the daily and weekly trends. Tue, 20 Jan 2026 12:04:00 GMT hamishapps@gmail.com (Hamish Burke) Data pipelinesAIArchitecture https://hamishburke.com/work/health-agent https://hamishburke.com/work/health-agent Built a pipeline that normalises daily Apple Health exports into Postgres and produces personal trend views. Tue, 20 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT hamishapps@gmail.com (Hamish Burke) Data pipelinesAIArchitectureFront-end development https://hamishburke.com/work/metlink-departures-display https://hamishburke.com/work/metlink-departures-display Made a web and command-line display for upcoming Wellington bus departures, with a small service setup for home use. Fri, 16 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT hamishapps@gmail.com (Hamish Burke) PythonTransportAutomation https://hamishburke.com/work/piano-improvisation-helper https://hamishburke.com/work/piano-improvisation-helper Built a piano practice tool that searches for songs and estimates their key from available audio previews in the browser. Fri, 12 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMT hamishapps@gmail.com (Hamish Burke) MusicTypeScriptAudio https://hamishburke.com/work/bedroom-layout-designer https://hamishburke.com/work/bedroom-layout-designer Built a room planner with furniture editing, measurements, undo, local saving and printable PDF exports. Tue, 02 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMT hamishapps@gmail.com (Hamish Burke) Web developmentTypeScriptProduct design https://hamishburke.com/work/groovebox https://hamishburke.com/work/groovebox Built a desktop groovebox with sample playback, editable patterns and a Python sequencer backed by audio-engine experiments. Sun, 23 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMT hamishapps@gmail.com (Hamish Burke) MusicPythonAudio https://hamishburke.com/work/bank-to-sheets-sync https://hamishburke.com/work/bank-to-sheets-sync Built an Akahu-to-Google-Sheets sync with transaction categorisation, deduplication and balance reconciliation. Sat, 15 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMT hamishapps@gmail.com (Hamish Burke) PythonFinanceAutomation https://hamishburke.com/work/grid-diffusion-ad https://hamishburke.com/work/grid-diffusion-ad Investigated diffusion models for fault detection in power-system signals, with normal-only training and explicit false-alarm evaluation. Wed, 12 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMT hamishapps@gmail.com (Hamish Burke) AIMachine learningResearchTime series https://hamishburke.com/work/ando-sim https://hamishburke.com/work/ando-sim Built a Blender simulation add-on with a C++ core, based on the cubic-barrier method for cloth and shell contact. Sun, 19 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMT hamishapps@gmail.com (Hamish Burke) GraphicsBlenderC++Simulation https://hamishburke.com/work/cowrie-honeypot-analysis https://hamishburke.com/work/cowrie-honeypot-analysis Analysed Cowrie honeypot events and produced charts, query tools and reports on authentication, commands and attacker activity. Sat, 04 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMT hamishapps@gmail.com (Hamish Burke) SecurityPythonResearch https://hamishburke.com/reports/home-lab-architectural-study https://hamishburke.com/reports/home-lab-architectural-study I ran public and private services on a Raspberry Pi 4, then tested the restore playbook. This report covers the constraints, the service layout and that recovery test. Thu, 21 Aug 2025 12:56:00 GMT hamishapps@gmail.com (Hamish Burke) ArchitectureSelf-hosted https://hamishburke.com/work/home-lab https://hamishburke.com/work/home-lab Designed and tested a resource-constrained home-lab stack with private administration, public access, and encrypted offsite recovery. Thu, 21 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMT hamishapps@gmail.com (Hamish Burke) ArchitectureSelf-hosted https://hamishburke.com/work/pinterest-aesthetic-analysis https://hamishburke.com/work/pinterest-aesthetic-analysis Built a pipeline for clustering Pinterest images with CLIP embeddings and comparing visual themes between saved runs. Wed, 06 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMT hamishapps@gmail.com (Hamish Burke) AIPythonComputer vision https://hamishburke.com/work/piano-waveform-visualiser https://hamishburke.com/work/piano-waveform-visualiser Made an SDL2 piano keyboard that combines selected tones and displays their waveform and frequency information. Thu, 10 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMT hamishapps@gmail.com (Hamish Burke) MusicC++Audio https://hamishburke.com/reports/wildfire-analysis-with-pyspark https://hamishburke.com/reports/wildfire-analysis-with-pyspark I used PySpark to train and compare models on 1.88 million US wildfire records. The report covers the features, training runs and what happened when I weighted the rare classes. Mon, 09 Jun 2025 22:53:00 GMT hamishapps@gmail.com (Hamish Burke) Data pipelinesAI https://hamishburke.com/work/wildfire-pyspark https://hamishburke.com/work/wildfire-pyspark Tested a distributed Spark ML pipeline on 1.88 million United States wildfire records. Mon, 09 Jun 2025 00:00:00 GMT hamishapps@gmail.com (Hamish Burke) Data pipelinesAI https://hamishburke.com/work/transit-sync https://hamishburke.com/work/transit-sync Built a prototype that connects calendar events with Wellington transit routing, with a separate open-source route-planning package. Sat, 05 Apr 2025 00:00:00 GMT hamishapps@gmail.com (Hamish Burke) PythonTransportAPIs https://hamishburke.com/work/sentient-environment-explorer https://hamishburke.com/work/sentient-environment-explorer Built a grid-world learning experiment with food, hazards, a neural agent and a live interface for observing its behaviour. Mon, 10 Mar 2025 00:00:00 GMT hamishapps@gmail.com (Hamish Burke) Machine learningPythonSimulation https://hamishburke.com/work/malware-classifier-backdoors https://hamishburke.com/work/malware-classifier-backdoors Investigated backdoor attacks on malware classifiers, preserving the manuscript, experiment comparisons and robustness plots. Mon, 17 Feb 2025 00:00:00 GMT hamishapps@gmail.com (Hamish Burke) SecurityMachine learningResearch https://hamishburke.com/work/music-genre-classification https://hamishburke.com/work/music-genre-classification Built a music classification workflow with exploratory plots, preprocessing, model training and saved predictions. Mon, 16 Sep 2024 00:00:00 GMT hamishapps@gmail.com (Hamish Burke) MusicMachine learningResearch https://hamishburke.com/work/geometry-shader-study https://hamishburke.com/work/geometry-shader-study Worked on generated geometry, lighting and texture techniques in an OpenGL graphics assignment. Tue, 09 Jul 2024 00:00:00 GMT hamishapps@gmail.com (Hamish Burke) GraphicsC++Rendering https://hamishburke.com/work/floor-plan-importer https://hamishburke.com/work/floor-plan-importer Built a Blender importer that turns structured floor-plan data into scene geometry. Wed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 GMT hamishapps@gmail.com (Hamish Burke) GraphicsBlenderPython https://hamishburke.com/work/path-tracing-study https://hamishburke.com/work/path-tracing-study Implemented coursework path-tracing features and a grid-based sampling variant, preserving the source and example renders. Sun, 19 May 2024 00:00:00 GMT hamishapps@gmail.com (Hamish Burke) GraphicsC++Rendering https://hamishburke.com/work/boids-simulation https://hamishburke.com/work/boids-simulation Implemented a boids simulation with force-based movement, obstacles and interactive graphics controls. Sun, 12 May 2024 00:00:00 GMT hamishapps@gmail.com (Hamish Burke) GraphicsC++Simulation https://hamishburke.com/work/birthday-gallery https://hamishburke.com/work/birthday-gallery Made an interactive birthday gallery with a custom 3D space, photographs, captions and camera movement between artworks. Sat, 04 May 2024 00:00:00 GMT hamishapps@gmail.com (Hamish Burke) GraphicsWeb developmentThree.js https://hamishburke.com/work/spotify-playlist-demographics https://hamishburke.com/work/spotify-playlist-demographics Built a playlist analysis tool that combines artist lookup, biographical text extraction and demographic visualisation. Sat, 23 Mar 2024 00:00:00 GMT hamishapps@gmail.com (Hamish Burke) MusicPythonAPIs https://hamishburke.com/work/finlay-lani-wedding https://hamishburke.com/work/finlay-lani-wedding Built a wedding website with a Vue interface, RSVP validation, Firebase content and an organiser view of responses. Mon, 09 Oct 2023 00:00:00 GMT hamishapps@gmail.com (Hamish Burke) Web developmentVueFirebase https://hamishburke.com/work/parametric-bookshelf https://hamishburke.com/work/parametric-bookshelf Made a parametric bookshelf asset in Blender, with geometry-node controls and a reusable blend file. Wed, 30 Aug 2023 00:00:00 GMT hamishapps@gmail.com (Hamish Burke) GraphicsBlenderProcedural design https://hamishburke.com/work/cookie-cat https://hamishburke.com/work/cookie-cat Made an endless Godot platformer with generated platforms, enemies, collectibles and shops for extra lives and jump upgrades. Fri, 14 Jul 2023 00:00:00 GMT hamishapps@gmail.com (Hamish Burke) GamesGodotProcedural design https://hamishburke.com/work/3d-spanning-trees https://hamishburke.com/work/3d-spanning-trees Built a minimum-spanning-tree tool for OBJ geometry, with a Blender add-on and a packaged Java application. Sat, 10 Jun 2023 00:00:00 GMT hamishapps@gmail.com (Hamish Burke) GraphicsJavaBlender https://hamishburke.com/work/l-system-generator https://hamishburke.com/work/l-system-generator Built a JavaFX tool for generating L-system structures, saving their rules and exporting the resulting geometry to Blender. Sat, 20 May 2023 00:00:00 GMT hamishapps@gmail.com (Hamish Burke) GraphicsJavaBlender https://hamishburke.com/work/articulate-ai https://hamishburke.com/work/articulate-ai Built a recording workflow that transcribed speech with Whisper, generated a GPT response and spoke short replies through ElevenLabs. Wed, 17 May 2023 00:00:00 GMT hamishapps@gmail.com (Hamish Burke) AIVoicePython https://hamishburke.com/work/wellington-transport-network https://hamishburke.com/work/wellington-transport-network Implemented route search, connected-component analysis and critical-stop detection for a Wellington transport network. Sun, 16 Apr 2023 00:00:00 GMT hamishapps@gmail.com (Hamish Burke) JavaTransportAlgorithms