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  • Making Sugarcoated: How Building a T1D Game Made Me Excited for My Pump

    3 Jan 2026

    I built a Type 1 Diabetes simulation game to explain my condition to friends. In making it realistic, I discovered just how hard manual management is - and why the pump I'm getting next month might change everything.

  • Measuring Video Stability: What Your Video Encoder Already Knows

    31 Dec 2025

    I have 6,000 travel video clips sitting on a hard drive. To turn them into video essays, I need to know what's actually usable - which clips are tripod-steady,...

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