const hamish = {
alias: "Hamo 🤙",
vibe: "just wanna help people 🧡",
codingStyle: "vibe coding supremacy 🤖✨",
actualSkill: "can code a little... sometimes... if the stars align 🌟",
aiAssisted: true, // proudly and unashamedly
mission: "become a SAR Medic-Ranger and help people in the wilderness 🌲🚁",
dreamHike: "Pacific Crest Trail — Mexico ➡️ Canada 🥾🥾🥾",
currentlyBuilding: [
"🥾 TrailSafe — so hikers don't die (important)",
"💸 PriceHawk — so I don't spend all my money",
"🏠 Home Lab — so I can feel like a hacker",
],
funFacts: [
"I talk to strangers on radio frequencies 📻",
"I know what to do if you break your leg on a mountain 🦵",
"maps make me unreasonably happy 🗺️",
"I once spent 3 hours configuring Docker for a 5 minute task 🐳",
],
openToHelp: "ALWAYS 🧡",
};"I want to be the person who shows up when things go wrong" 🧡
| Certification | Status | |
|---|---|---|
| 🩺 | Wilderness First Aid (WFA) | ✅ Pursuing — patient assessment, improvised splints, the whole deal |
| 🚑 | EMT-Basic | 🔄 In Training — actual pre-hospital medicine |
| 🪢 | Technical Rescue (Rope · Swiftwater · Avalanche) | 📋 Planned via Adventure Leadership Institute |
| 🏕️ | First Aid | ✅ Certified |
| 📻 | Ham Radio License | 🔄 In Progress — for emergencies AND for fun |
Training toward SAR Medic-Ranger in Oregon 🌲 — where the trees are tall and people still need rescuing
AI-powered hiking risk assessments + family info sheets, shareable before every trip
React + Vite · FastAPI · SQLite · Claude AI · WeasyPrint
Self-hosted price tracker that yells at you (via Discord) when prices drop
FastAPI · SQLite · Discord Webhooks · Cloudflare Zero Trust
Dell Wyse 5070 running an entire home lab because apparently that's normal
📦 The Stack (it works, mostly)
├── 🏠 Home Assistant — smart home chaos + Bubble Card dashboards
├── 📷 Frigate — AI camera that judges everyone who knocks
├── 📡 ring-mqtt — doorbell ↔ HA bridge (cursed but functional)
├── 🌡️ Govee2mqtt — bluetooth sensors doing bluetooth things
├── 🦟 Mosquitto MQTT — the glue holding everything together
├── 📄 Stirling PDF — documents and stuff
├── 📊 Glances — so I can watch numbers go up
└── 🌐 Personal Website — SAR orange portfolio, very serious professional
(mostly assembled by vibing and asking Claude nicely)
🧡 core motivation: just wanna help people. that's it. that's the whole thing.
🥾 day hiker → working toward multi-day wilderness trips
🌲 bucket list item #1: thru-hike the Pacific Crest Trail (PCT)
📻 I talk to people on radio. yes, on purpose. yes, it's awesome.
📷 photography (mostly mountains and trees and clouds)
🌦️ weather nerd. I check radar apps for fun.
🗺️ if there's a topo map involved I am IMMEDIATELY interested
🪢 learning rope rescue, swiftwater & avalanche response
🚁 end goal: SAR Medic-Ranger, Oregon 🇺🇸 — helping people in the wilderness