Zachary Claret-Scott

About

I'm Zach, a 30 year old technical engineer based in Kingston Upon Hull. This is my corner of the internet — a place to track the things I care about, from hunting down the oldest pub in every city to cataloguing everything I watch, read, and listen to.

Have a look at what I'm up to now, the stuff I use, or find me elsewhere.

At a Glance

Work

• Senior PHP Developer at Conker Group

• Director & Software Consultant at Claret-Scott & Co

Education

• Masters of Science - Cloud Computing, University of Lincoln

• Bachelor of Science - Computer Science, University of Lincoln

• BTEC Level 3 Extended Diploma (3x A Level equivalent) IT and Computing, Wyke Sixth Form College

• GCSE IT, South Holderness Technology College

Full CV at zachary.claretscott.com

Projects

enhost

Founded 2016

I founded and managed enhost, a commercial web hosting service providing solutions to business clients. I personally architected and administered the entire server infrastructure, managing Linux servers, network configuration, and security protocols....

I won 'Web Hosting Company of the Year 2024 - UK' from The Developer Awards.

Scrobble With

Founded 2020

I built Scrobble With, a web application that synchronizes Last.fm scrobbles between users in real-time. The tool allows groups to maintain shared music histories during road trips, listening sessions, or when following radio stations. It demonstrate...

Student Finance Countdown

Founded 2015

I created Student Finance Countdown, a simple web tool that displays the next Student Finance England payment date with a live countdown timer. This straightforward project helps students track their maintenance loan payments, providing a clear refer...

Publications

Full full list on Google Scholar.

Volunteering

Blog

• 26Jan
  2026 Why I Stuck with PHP for Static Sites (Hello, Jigsaw)
  Like many developers who have spent over 15 years working with PHP, I have watched the frontend landscape shift dramatically. There is always a new “must-use” framework, and lately, the static site generation (SSG) space has been dominated by JavaScr...
• 05Aug
  2025 The Camper's Contradiction: My Quest for Off-Grid Power
  #camping #offgrid #tech #solar #anker #outdoors I love camping. There’s a unique peace that comes from trading city noise for the sound of wind in the trees, especially here in the UK. The goal is always to disconnect, to leave the endless notificat...
• 29Jul
  2025 Taking Control of Your Code with a Self-Hosted Gitea Server
  #gitea #git #selfhosted #devops #coding #php For years, my code has lived on GitHub. It’s the industry standard for a reason: it’s robust, collaboration is seamless, and it’s the heart of the open-source community. For my public and professional wor...
• 14Aug
  2024 YourSpotify as a music analysis engine
  #music #spotify #lastfm #data I’ve been tracking my music listening habits for decades on last.fm ever since my dad introduced me to the platform – it’s great to see what music I listened to overtime. I used to use last.fm daily to find new music...
• 13Aug
  2024 Advent of code
  #adventofcode #php #codingchallenge Advent of Code is a yearly coding challenge hosted during December. I have taken part a few years and my solutions can be found at https://github.com/hcaz/advent-of-code or https://github.com/hcaz/advent-of-code...
• 13Aug
  2024 Write freely as a fediverse blog
  #services #selfhosted #homelab I have wanted to host my own fediverse/activity pub compatible server for a while – however I felt running a full on Mastodon server was to heavy for my use case. And other options seemed to take a bit too much effort...

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