Legacy

Code Without Purpose

The problem isn't too much code. It's code without purpose.

Working Effectively with Legacy Code

Orientation Under Pressure

On maintaining direction under entropy, making things as resistance, and the quiet privilege of having any space at all to think beyond survival.

Post-ASI Archaeology: When Humanity Becomes a Dataset of Origins

If superintelligence endures beyond us, remembrance shifts from memory to query. Building legacy systems not for nostalgia, but to remain legible in a future where legibility determines what persists.

Why I Build Comprehensively in Open Source

On building comprehensive open source software as value imprinting at scale, reproducible science, and leaving intellectual legacy under terminal constraints.

Diagnosed with Stage 3 Cancer

Stage 3 cancer, surgery on New Year's Eve. What changes when the optimization problem gets a new constraint.