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title: About
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canonical: https://waltspence.com/about
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I'm Walt. I work as a Registered Polysomnographic Technologist focusing on alternative therapies, with a specialty in pediatrics. I lead the hypoglossal nerve stimulation (HGNS) program at St. Mary's Hospital and have run more than 15,000 studies over 20 years. I spend the rest of my time building infrastructure that is supposed to run without me.

That covers most of what is here. enlab is the home fleet: a few machines, a Tailscale overlay, a resolver I built instead of copying hosts files around, and a set of agents that do most of the routine work. I write [Notes](/notes) about what that teaches me, post shorter things to the [stream](/thoughts), and keep every unfinished experiment on the [bench](/projects) because unfinished is a real state and pretending otherwise is dishonest.

Some things I believe, stated plainly so you can disagree with them:

- What I cannot automate, I do not understand.
- Simple code is better code. The best code is no code at all.
- The right tool is the one that finishes the job. No team jerseys.
- Dark themes are non-negotiable. The light mode on this site exists and was designed on purpose; it is not the default.
- Papers and projects without code or reproduction steps are advertisements.

Elsewhere: [GitHub](https://github.com/waltspence). Everything published there and anywhere else starts here; this site is the canonical copy.

See also my [CV](/cv), [Now](/now), [Uses](/uses) and the [Colophon](/colophon).