Legacy

Working Effectively with Legacy Code

Orientation Under Pressure: Notes on a Life Lived Deliberately

On maintaining orientation under entropy, creating artifacts 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

We will not be remembered — we will be indexed. 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

I maintain 50+ open source repositories. Every one has documentation, tests, examples, and clear architecture.

People ask: “Why spend so much time on free software when you have stage 4 cancer?”

The question misunderstands what I’m …

Diagnosed with Stage 3 Cancer: Reflections on Mortality and Legacy

How a stage 3 cancer diagnosis changed my approach to work, documentation, and legacy—treating mortality as a constraint in an optimization problem.