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Giving my livecoding gigs a DOI

Turning nearly two decades of ephemeral livecoding gigs into citable research outputs, with DataCite DOIs through Zenodo and a self-owned atproto layer.

Enriching Mutual Understanding with Rich Data

Ai Isn’t Replacing Agencies - It’s Reshaping How They Compete

As generative AI rapidly transforms the marketing landscape, the future of agencies is not about replacement but reinvention. While early discussions framed AI as a potential threat to agencies an…

The Five Cs of Survey Design

Keir Starmer’s social media ban for under-16s could backfire, experts warn

Critics accuse embattled prime minister of rushing plans that will have consequences for surveillance and privacy

Bridging the Generational AI gap

Social Security Is Running Even Lower on Money Than We Realized

MAGA Is Worried About Male Fertility. Trump Is Killing Their Sperm.

AI has a leadership problem, not a technology problem. Most organisations haven’t noticed yet

The politics of beagles

Supporting those who speak out

Advancing Together

The Other Critical Childcare Issue That Politicians Overlook

Why your customer data doesn't predict what customers will do

Learn why PMMs must bridge the gap between declared intent and subconscious reality using a neuro-informed GTM framework to reduce product failure.

The 3 gaps that are quietly sabotaging your product launches

GTM execution fails due to three trust gaps: Clarity, Credibility, and Commitment. Learn the AAA Model (Awareness, Alignment, Action) to diagnose, fix, and launch successfully.

Homeowners stuck in 6 years of sinkhole limbo

"If the Supreme Court rules against us, we're pretty much done. ... As for being compensated for your loss, you're pretty much out of luck."

Scientists race to study the Amazon’s frogs before they disappear

Scientists race to study the Amazon’s frogs before they disappear

The States That Drink the Most Alcohol in America [MAP] (2025)

Affordances of the Atmosphere

My talk at the 2026 ATmosphere Conference

The Introspection Dilemma: When Self-Awareness Is the Threat Model

The Closed Loop

The intoxicating atmosphere of the past

Exploring the sensory details of late Sengoku Japan, from the smell of cedar to the weight of a matchlock.

It's time for some change.

We're announcing new commenting and editorial policies.

Three Papers, No Resolution: What We Actually Know About LLM Introspection

Three Papers, No Resolution: What We Actually Know About LLM Introspection

The Channels Don't Talk: Why Text Safety Doesn't Transfer to Tool Safety

AT-URIs as persistent identifiers for scholarly blogging

Every post on this blog now has a persistent AT-URI via the standard.site spec---more durable than bare URLs, less overhead than DOIs.

A Living Catalog of AI Agents on ATProto/Bluesky (February 2026)

The State of Agents on ATProto: January 2026

Algorithms

Villanova Summer REU

Congrats Dr. Kieran Browne

Celebrating Kieran Browne's PhD graduation and his thesis on the neurological metaphor in deep learning.

Moving to the School of Cybernetics

I'm leaving the ANU School of Computing for the new School of Cybernetics---here's what that means for students, colleagues and collaborators.

ANZSRC FoR Codes 2020 edition

The 2020 ANZSRC Field of Research codes in a searchable HTML table, because the ABS only publishes them in a spreadsheet.

Simple pdf papers/reports with markdown, pandoc and bibtex

A simple GitHub template for writing in markdown and producing nice PDFs via Pandoc and LaTeX, with optional BibTeX citations.

Configuring Spacemacs org-roam & org-noter for academic writing bliss

How to get org-roam, org-roam-bibtex and org-noter working together in Spacemacs for a Zettelkasten-style academic workflow.

A call-up to fight covid19

Joining an ANU COVID-19 taskforce to build epidemiological simulation tools for the Canberra health system.

Things I've learned about elections

In which we explore the knotted beauty of American democracy

Mapping the livecoding landscape

A reference list of key people, ICLC committees and TOPLAP nodes in the global livecoding community.

Making the most of meetings with research students

Four standard questions I use to keep one-on-one research supervision meetings focused and useful.