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HBN // ABOUT

About Hybrid By Nature

Part code, part curiosity.

HBN // THE WORKSHOP
A workshop for curious engineers
who can't stick to one discipline.

Games, tools, and interactive experiments — built from scratch, often with AI as a creative partner. This is where ideas become things you can actually open in a browser.

01 // What is this place?

A personal workshop

Hybrid By Nature is a personal workshop — a place where games, tools, and ideas are built from scratch, often with AI as a creative partner. Every item on this site started as a curiosity: What if I built a roguelike set in a SCADA system? What if I made a safety verification tool that runs in the browser? What if a game could teach something about cellular automata?

Some experiments become polished tools. Others stay small. All of them are things worth sharing.

02 // Who makes this?

Hi — I'm Pato

I'm Pato — an electrical engineer in Perth, Western Australia. Born and raised in Santiago, Chile. I work in control systems and functional safety, but my path here started with an Atari, a Commodore 64, and a 386 — modifying games, making graphics, pulling apart anything I could understand.

That curiosity turned into a career across R&D, radio communications, system integration and industrial safety. Chilean and Australian. Hardware and software. Precision and play. Nothing I do fits neatly into one box, and I stopped trying to make it.

I believe in learning by building. I think curiosity, discipline, and sharing what you know are what actually move things forward. This site is where all of that converges — a workshop to build things and share them, with AI as a creative partner.

03 // Why "Hybrid"?

Because nothing fits neatly into one category

The games borrow from engineering. The tools have a playful side. The posts are experiments. Every piece is a hybrid of disciplines, and that's the point.

"Hybrid By Nature" is not a brand strategy — it's a description. The instinct to cross disciplines, to combine precision and play, to take something from one domain and apply it in another — that's just how I think. The site reflects that.

04 // The Tech

Built for the open web

Static, fast, and privacy-respecting by default. No accounts, no tracking cookies — your data stays in your browser.

Astro + React
Static site framework with interactive islands
TypeScript
Type-safe development throughout
MDX Content
Posts and interactives in MDX with YAML frontmatter
Plausible Analytics
Privacy-respecting — no cookies, no personal data
Bilingual
English and Spanish — full content translation
Pagefind Search
Static, indexed search — no server needed
05 // Connect

Say hello

Have a question, a suggestion, spotted a bug — or just want to say hello? All messages welcome.

06 // Acknowledgments

Tools and services that make this possible

This site is built with a mix of open-source tools, AI services, and platforms that make independent web publishing possible.