https://nickgomez.me/work/Recent content in Work on Nick GomezHugoen-UShttps://nickgomez.me/work/system-nobody-could-rebuild/Mon, 20 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://nickgomez.me/work/system-nobody-could-rebuild/A system that worked only because a few people remembered how, then rebuilt so the knowledge lived in the infrastructure, not in anyone’s head. (It happened to be a malware-scanning fleet; the shape is one every business has.)https://nickgomez.me/work/own-operation/Sun, 19 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://nickgomez.me/work/own-operation/Everything I depend on runs on one box I can rebuild from nothing, because I hold my own systems to the standard I sell: written down, reproducible, owned outright. Here’s what that discipline bought me, and what it cost.