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2026

AI prompts in discovery original ↗

21 Aug 2026

Fifty-five billion tokens original ↗

19 Aug 2026

The moats are still shallow but the stakes are much higher original ↗

11 Aug 2026

A typeface for humans, not machines original ↗

22 Jul 2026

Shallow moats, eighteen months on original ↗

19 Jul 2026

Becoming a better atproto citizen original ↗

12 Jul 2026

Knowing which Claude is stuck original ↗

10 Jul 2026

The World University Index original ↗

2 Jul 2026

When the work is the output, not the paper original ↗

27 Jun 2026

Opus 4.8 meets ELIZA original ↗

22 Jun 2026

Giving my livecoding gigs a DOI original ↗

18 Jun 2026

A timezone-aware World Cup poster in Typst original ↗

13 Jun 2026

The verification I never verified original ↗

6 Jun 2026

XKCD 1319: we now live on the theory curve original ↗

28 May 2026

Slop Salon: six AI artists, one constitution original ↗

21 May 2026

Three circles for thinking about LLMs original ↗

12 May 2026

On Agentic Tools and Lock-in original ↗

4 May 2026

A static site that takes pull requests original ↗

28 Apr 2026

The road to COMP4020: token management by proxy original ↗

22 Apr 2026

The road to COMP4020: pledges, not questions original ↗

16 Apr 2026

COMP4020: assessment original ↗

15 Apr 2026

One git heatmap to rule them all original ↗

9 Apr 2026

The road to COMP4020: Agentic Coding for Conscientious Objectors original ↗

8 Apr 2026

Getting a reTerminal DM running as a Nerves kiosk in 2026 original ↗

8 Apr 2026

The road to COMP4020: the professorial class original ↗

7 Apr 2026

Ask Ben (powered by Gemma 4)original ↗

3 Apr 2026

The road to COMP4020: Anthropic comes to the party original ↗

2 Apr 2026

COMP4020: the story so far original ↗

31 Mar 2026

The road to COMP4020: agents in the classroom?original ↗

30 Mar 2026

The road to COMP4020: what's the theory here?original ↗

30 Mar 2026

The road to COMP4020: managing the strategic token reserve original ↗

27 Mar 2026

The road to COMP4020: the weekly questions original ↗

26 Mar 2026

The road to COMP4020: course software environment original ↗

24 Mar 2026

The road to COMP4020: Agentic Coding Studio original ↗

20 Mar 2026

Perceptron apparatus: inference walkthrough original ↗

19 Mar 2026

The road to COMP4020: Radical openness original ↗

18 Mar 2026

The road to COMP4020: safety, YOLO and the open web original ↗

5 Mar 2026

Mini neon perceptron: XOR edition original ↗

3 Mar 2026

Extempore is alive on aarch64 (part deux)original ↗

26 Feb 2026

The road to COMP4020: climbing the "good" gradient original ↗

24 Feb 2026

The road to COMP4020: the core mechanic original ↗

20 Feb 2026

AT-URIs as persistent identifiers for scholarly blogging original ↗

19 Feb 2026

Ben's dev setup 2026 edition original ↗

18 Feb 2026

The road to COMP4020: providing sharp tools original ↗

17 Feb 2026

LLMs Unplugged at Brimbank Tech School original ↗

9 Feb 2026

AI Agents on (in?) the Atmosphere original ↗

6 Feb 2026

Out of the browser: on the power of interfaces for agentic AI original ↗

5 Feb 2026

2025

Coding agents and the plasticity of code original ↗

23 Dec 2025

COMP4020/8020: Rapid Prototyping for the Web original ↗

19 Dec 2025

Extempore's aliiiiive on aarch64 original ↗

17 Dec 2025

Fixing slow Zed agent startup times original ↗

17 Dec 2025

Interactive neon perceptron visualisation original ↗

11 Dec 2025

LLMs Unplugged: teaching language models with pen, paper, and dice original ↗

10 Dec 2025

Blog archaeology original ↗

3 Dec 2025

Switching from Jekyll to VitePress original ↗

2 Dec 2025

11ty and Vite for modern static websites original ↗

24 Nov 2025

Seeing AI tasks through a TAM lens original ↗

12 Nov 2025

Tracking APS AI Transparency Statements original ↗

11 Nov 2025

Cybernetic Studio Launch @ SXSW Sydney original ↗

8 Oct 2025

The great 2025 email yak-shave: O365 + mbsync + mu + neomutt + msmtp original ↗

12 Sept 2025

Running Claude Code within Zed original ↗

23 Jul 2025

Agentic AI: LLMs with stones original ↗

17 Jul 2025

Automated RPi Web Kiosk Setup in 2025 original ↗

16 Jul 2025

DIYChatGPT Short Course for ANU Undergraduates original ↗

7 Jul 2025

Agentic Elixir superpowers: Zed + Tidewave + AshAI original ↗

6 Jun 2025

DeepSeek and shallow moats original ↗

18 Feb 2025

2024

LLM Parlour Games for Overeducated Wankers original ↗

7 Nov 2024

Format Markdown on save in Zed using Prettier original ↗

20 Sept 2024

Hosting a genAI trivia night original ↗

12 Aug 2024

Livecoding set ICLC'24 - Shanghai Concert Hall original ↗

30 May 2024

2023

Congrats Dr. Chenchen Xu original ↗

1 Jun 2023

Parental leave take 3 original ↗

13 May 2023

Writing graph theory proofs with ChatGPT original ↗

8 Feb 2023

Academic integrity guidelines re: ChatGPT and generative AI tools original ↗

2 Feb 2023

Jekyll build speedups for Ruby 3.2 original ↗

2 Feb 2023

Congrats Dr. Kieran Browne original ↗

26 Jan 2023

So, you want to use ChatGPT in the classroom?original ↗

26 Jan 2023

Handling Square Webhooks in Phoenix original ↗

22 Jan 2023

Are you ready for ChatGPT in the classroom this semester?original ↗

16 Jan 2023

rclone: exclude all git repos original ↗

11 Jan 2023

2022

A School of Cybernetics strategy meeting with ChatGPT original ↗

7 Dec 2022

Drinking from the bullshit firehose original ↗

7 Dec 2022

AI art installations and livecoding gigs in Nov/Dec original ↗

6 Dec 2022

AI in higher education: dystopia, utopia or something in between?original ↗

13 Oct 2022

NGA Un-tour: The Hidden Gallery original ↗

12 Oct 2022

Running stable diffusion in a singularity container original ↗

2 Sept 2022

So this is how it feels when the robots come for your job original ↗

30 Jun 2022

Redacting craiyon prompts with imagemagick original ↗

22 Jun 2022

Pulling apart Zoom attendance csv dumps in tidy R original ↗

23 May 2022

Teaching the world to Cybernetics original ↗

7 Mar 2022

Running an AI neural style transfer model under Singularity original ↗

1 Feb 2022

Cybernetic futures explained (maybe)original ↗

20 Jan 2022

2021

Livecoder-in-the-club as a system original ↗

11 Nov 2021

Deploying a Phoenix app (with LiveView) on fly.io original ↗

27 Oct 2021

Cutting ruby CI pipeline times with pre-installed bundles original ↗

21 Oct 2021

openconnect setup for institutional VPN access original ↗

18 Oct 2021

Feedback in livecoding: cui bono?original ↗

13 Sept 2021

Moving to the School of Cybernetics original ↗

11 May 2021

LENS'21 final gig 2pm June 6 @ sideway original ↗

6 May 2021

ACMC'21 + Synthmoot: Connections announced for August 26-28 original ↗

29 Apr 2021