# About

Updated: 2026-11-02
URL:     https://waltspence.com/about

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 about what that teaches me, post shorter things to the stream, and keep every unfinished experiment on the bench 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. Everything published there and anywhere else starts here; this site is the canonical copy.
See also my CV, Now, Uses and the Colophon.