TECHNOLOGIST.
FOUNDER.
BUILDER.

I’m David Fabri, a builder based in Sydney, and the founder of Bitstream Media.

I’ve been pulling things apart to see how they work for as long as I can remember, and not much has changed except the things. These days they’re websites and web apps, native macOS software, and a home lab that exists mostly so I always have something to break.

The studio is where most of it lands. I design and build for the web across the stack, and I make native macOS tools for live video production, the Spectra suite, which got started in a venue at 3am because I had a real problem and nothing that solved it. That’s the pattern with most of what I make: I build the tools I keep wishing existed, then find out whether anyone else wished for them too.

I’ve spent over a decade in IT, which has taught me roughly equal amounts about systems and about people, and I use AI every day in how I think and ship. When I’m not building, I write about the craft behind it, including the trade-offs, the dead ends, and the problems nobody else seems to mention.