About

I'm Monch: a nurse in Sydney who builds things. By day it's immunology and allergy at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital and Holdsworth House, skin testing, drug challenges, biologics, HIV clinic care and clinical trials. Nights and weekends, it's whatever's on the homelab bench.

The website habit goes back to 2011, when I started making sites for clients and never really stopped. This site began as a WordPress blog in 2015 and lived there for the better part of a decade before I moved it to Astro on a single Cloudflare Worker and dug the old posts back out of the Wayback Machine. Writing it all down is the thread that runs through the whole run: gadgets, servers, games, trips, the occasional burger.

The clinical and the technical aren't two careers for me, they're one way of working: observe the work, build the tool, verify it in use. The four systems on the work page (the anaesthetic allergy testing platform, the SCIg patient app, the drug allergy reference library and the procedure documentation tool) each started as friction I could see on shift. The same loop runs my training: observe, program, lift, recover, adjust.

Off the clock I'm a husband and a dad. Between shifts and builds you'll find me in the gym: strength work, hypertrophy blocks, and the longer project of treating my own health like a system to optimise. It's the same habit as the homelab, just with more protein. There's also a backlog of games I'll get to eventually.