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Three circles for thinking about LLMs
On Agentic Tools and Lock-in
A static site that takes pull requests
The road to COMP4020: token management by proxy
The road to COMP4020: pledges, not questions
COMP4020: assessment
One git heatmap to rule them all
The road to COMP4020: Agentic Coding for Conscientious Objectors
Getting a reTerminal DM running as a Nerves kiosk in 2026
The road to COMP4020: the professorial class
Ask Ben (powered by Gemma 4)
The road to COMP4020: Anthropic comes to the party
COMP4020: the story so far
The road to COMP4020: agents in the classroom?
The road to COMP4020: what's the theory here?
The road to COMP4020: managing the strategic token reserve
The road to COMP4020: the weekly questions
The road to COMP4020: course software environment
The road to COMP4020: Agentic Coding Studio
Perceptron apparatus: inference walkthrough
The road to COMP4020: Radical openness
The road to COMP4020: safety, YOLO and the open web
Mini neon perceptron: XOR edition
Extempore is alive on aarch64 (part deux)
The road to COMP4020: climbing the "good" gradient
The road to COMP4020: the core mechanic
AT-URIs as persistent identifiers for scholarly blogging
Ben's dev setup 2026 edition
The road to COMP4020: providing sharp tools
LLMs Unplugged at Brimbank Tech School
AI Agents on (in?) the Atmosphere
Out of the browser: on the power of interfaces for agentic AI
Coding agents and the plasticity of code
COMP4020/8020: Rapid Prototyping for the Web
Fixing slow Zed agent startup times
Extempore's aliiiiive on aarch64
Interactive neon perceptron visualisation
LLMs Unplugged: teaching language models with pen, paper, and dice
Blog archaeology
Switching from Jekyll to VitePress
11ty and Vite for modern static websites
Seeing AI tasks through a TAM lens
Tracking APS AI Transparency Statements
Cybernetic Studio Launch @ SXSW Sydney
The great 2025 email yak-shave: O365 + mbsync + mu + neomutt + msmtp
Running Claude Code within Zed
Agentic AI: LLMs with stones
Automated RPi Web Kiosk Setup in 2025
DIYChatGPT Short Course for ANU Undergraduates
Agentic Elixir superpowers: Zed + Tidewave + AshAI
DeepSeek and Shallow Moats: Implications for Higher Education
LLM Parlour Games for Overeducated Wankers
Format Markdown on save in Zed using Prettier
Hosting a genAI trivia night
Livecoding set ICLC'24 - Shanghai Concert Hall
Congrats Dr. Chenchen Xu
Parental leave take 3
Writing graph theory proofs with ChatGPT
Academic integrity guidelines re: ChatGPT and generative AI tools
Jekyll build speedups for Ruby 3.2
Congrats Dr. Kieran Browne
Handling Square Webhooks in Phoenix
Are you ready for ChatGPT in the classroom this semester?
rclone: exclude all git repos
A School of Cybernetics strategy meeting with ChatGPT
Drinking from the bullshit firehose
AI art installations and livecoding gigs in Nov/Dec
AI in higher education: dystopia, utopia or something in between?
NGA Un-tour: The Hidden Gallery
Running stable diffusion in a singularity container
So this is how it feels when the robots come for your job
So this is how it feels when the robots come for your job: what GitHub's Copilot 'AI assistant' means for coders
Redacting craiyon prompts with imagemagick
Pulling apart Zoom attendance csv dumps in tidy R
Teaching the world to Cybernetics
Running an AI neural style transfer model under Singularity
Cybernetic futures explained (maybe)
Livecoder-in-the-club as a system
Deploying a Phoenix app (with LiveView) on fly.io
Cutting ruby CI pipeline times with pre-installed bundles
openconnect setup for institutional VPN access
Feedback in livecoding: cui bono?
Moving to the School of Cybernetics
LENS'21 final gig 2pm June 6 @ sideway
ACMC'21 + Synthmoot: Connections announced for August 26-28
A short list of Extempore livecoding tricks
benswift.me analytics/tracking update
Bulk-add students to MS Teams from a csv file
ANZSRC FoR Codes 2020 edition
Simple pdf papers/reports with markdown, pandoc and bibtex
How to cite code? Leading by example
Respectful Learning Memes
Independent Study Contract writing tips
Configuring Spacemacs org-roam & org-noter for academic writing bliss
Student project: animated 3D code rendering engine
Creative Computing ANU Extension course
Parental leave, take 2
mbsync v1.3.2 breaking change: <code>SubFolders</code> config required
ACMC2020: tools for organising a virtual conference
LENS 2020 final gig stream tomorrow at 8pm