Blog Posts
The Paralyzed Programmer: What Spinal Cord Injury Taught Me About Debugging
Nov 13, 2025• 8 min read
A spinal cord injury is a permanent network partition. My paralysis taught me lessons about circuit breakers, cascading failures, and autonomous systems that changed how I design software.
Teaching Myself to Walk: On Building External Control Systems for a Partitioned Network
Oct 18, 2025• 11 min read
After two years in a wheelchair, I'm designing an open-source FES walking system. The project has taught me more about latency, prediction, and graceful degradation than any distributed system I've built professionally.