Ben Swift's bloghttps://benswift.me/https://benswift.me/blog/2026/05/04/on-agentic-tools-and-lock-in/https://benswift.me/blog/2026/05/04/on-agentic-tools-and-lock-in/A response to Lars Faye's 'Agentic Coding is a Trap': LLMs have the lowest vendor lock-in of any tool I've used in 20 years.Mon, 04 May 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://benswift.me/blog/2026/04/28/a-static-site-that-takes-pull-requests/https://benswift.me/blog/2026/04/28/a-static-site-that-takes-pull-requests/Out of Office stores its data in a JSON file in git, not a database. Why, and when this pattern fits.Tue, 28 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://benswift.me/blog/2026/04/22/comp4020-token-management-by-proxy/https://benswift.me/blog/2026/04/22/comp4020-token-management-by-proxy/Designing a proxy to sit between students and the Claude API: per-student quotas, full-traffic logging, and a safety net for leaked keys.Wed, 22 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://benswift.me/blog/2026/04/16/comp4020-pledges-not-questions/https://benswift.me/blog/2026/04/16/comp4020-pledges-not-questions/Replacing two of the three weekly reflection questions with falsifiable pledges, and using a cross-eval matrix to find the interesting disagreements.Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://benswift.me/blog/2026/04/15/comp4020-assessment/https://benswift.me/blog/2026/04/15/comp4020-assessment/What does a student hand in for an agentic coding course---and how do I make that artefact worth more than the grade itself?Wed, 15 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://benswift.me/blog/2026/04/09/one-git-heatmap-to-rule-them-all/https://benswift.me/blog/2026/04/09/one-git-heatmap-to-rule-them-all/A Python script that merges contribution data from GitHub and multiple GitLab instances into a single interactive SVG heatmap.Thu, 09 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://benswift.me/blog/2026/04/08/agentic-coding-for-conscientious-objectors/https://benswift.me/blog/2026/04/08/agentic-coding-for-conscientious-objectors/What would I say to a student who's staunchly anti-AI but curious about COMP4020?Wed, 08 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://benswift.me/blog/2026/04/08/reterminal-dm-nerves-kiosk/https://benswift.me/blog/2026/04/08/reterminal-dm-nerves-kiosk/A guide to running Elixir/Nerves on Seeed's reTerminal DM with its custom DSI display, capacitive touchscreen, and a Cog/WPE browser kiosk---including the workarounds you'll need for touch input.Wed, 08 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://benswift.me/blog/2026/04/07/the-professorial-class/https://benswift.me/blog/2026/04/07/the-professorial-class/Academics are welcome to audit COMP4020---here's how I'm planning to make it work.Tue, 07 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://benswift.me/blog/2026/04/03/ask-ben-powered-by-gemma-4/https://benswift.me/blog/2026/04/03/ask-ben-powered-by-gemma-4/An in-browser chat widget running Google's Gemma 4 E2B via WebGPU, primed with all the content from this site so you can ask it questions about me.Fri, 03 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://benswift.me/blog/2026/04/02/anthropic-comes-to-the-party/https://benswift.me/blog/2026/04/02/anthropic-comes-to-the-party/COMP4020 has received $500k in Claude API credits from Anthropic for students to use in the Agentic Coding Studio course.Thu, 02 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://benswift.me/blog/2026/03/31/comp4020-the-story-so-far/https://benswift.me/blog/2026/03/31/comp4020-the-story-so-far/A catch-up post for the COMP4020 Agentic Coding Studio blog series---what the course is, how it works, and what's still unresolved.Tue, 31 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://benswift.me/blog/2026/03/30/comp4020-agents-in-the-classroom/https://benswift.me/blog/2026/03/30/comp4020-agents-in-the-classroom/What if an AI agent enrolled in the course alongside the students---building prototypes, writing reflections, observing patterns?Mon, 30 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://benswift.me/blog/2026/03/30/comp4020-whats-the-theory-here/https://benswift.me/blog/2026/03/30/comp4020-whats-the-theory-here/There are lots of nascent theories for agentic coding---here's a survey, and a plan to test them with 200 students.Mon, 30 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://benswift.me/blog/2026/03/27/managing-the-strategic-token-reserve/https://benswift.me/blog/2026/03/27/managing-the-strategic-token-reserve/How to provision and manage AI token budgets for a class of agentic coding students.Fri, 27 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://benswift.me/blog/2026/03/26/comp4020-the-weekly-questions/https://benswift.me/blog/2026/03/26/comp4020-the-weekly-questions/Three evergreen questions and 280-character skeets to scaffold reflective practice in each weekly studio crit.Thu, 26 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://benswift.me/blog/2026/03/24/course-software-environment/https://benswift.me/blog/2026/03/24/course-software-environment/Every CS/software development course has a policy on what software it uses - the only different is whether it's written down or not.Tue, 24 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://benswift.me/blog/2026/03/20/agentic-coding-studio/https://benswift.me/blog/2026/03/20/agentic-coding-studio/Renaming the course to Agentic Coding Studio---because what we're really teaching is the craft of harnessing LLMs in coding workflows.Fri, 20 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://benswift.me/blog/2026/03/19/perceptron-apparatus-inference-walkthrough/https://benswift.me/blog/2026/03/19/perceptron-apparatus-inference-walkthrough/An interactive walkthrough of the perceptron apparatus---a 1.2m wooden table that classifies digits using sliders and a circular slide rule.Thu, 19 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://benswift.me/blog/2026/03/18/radical-openness/https://benswift.me/blog/2026/03/18/radical-openness/Making all weekly prototypes visible to every student---source code, deployed apps, the lot. Radical openness as a teaching strategy for COMP4020.Wed, 18 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://benswift.me/blog/2026/03/05/comp4020-safety-yolo-and-the-open-web/https://benswift.me/blog/2026/03/05/comp4020-safety-yolo-and-the-open-web/Fly Sprites as lightweight, snapshotable VMs for student coding---safe enough for YOLO mode, live on the open web by default.Thu, 05 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://benswift.me/blog/2026/03/03/mini-neon-perceptron-xor-edition/https://benswift.me/blog/2026/03/03/mini-neon-perceptron-xor-edition/A 4-input, 3-hidden, 2-output mini perceptron that solves diagonal XOR---with an interactive 3D digital twin to play with.Tue, 03 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://benswift.me/blog/2026/02/26/extempore-is-alive-on-aarch64-part-deux/https://benswift.me/blog/2026/02/26/extempore-is-alive-on-aarch64-part-deux/CI green on four platforms, a migration from TinyScheme to s7, and a 9x compiler speedup from hash table caches and union-find type unification.Thu, 26 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://benswift.me/blog/2026/02/24/climbing-the-good-gradient/https://benswift.me/blog/2026/02/24/climbing-the-good-gradient/Producing code is easy; knowing whether it's good is still hard. Three nested feedback loops for ascending the quality gradient in agentic coding.Tue, 24 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://benswift.me/blog/2026/02/20/comp4020-the-core-mechanic/https://benswift.me/blog/2026/02/20/comp4020-the-core-mechanic/The repeating loop at the heart of COMP4020: provocation, prototype, studio crit. An art-school model adapted for agentic software development.Fri, 20 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://benswift.me/blog/2026/02/19/at-uris-as-persistent-identifiers-for-scholarly-blogging/https://benswift.me/blog/2026/02/19/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.Thu, 19 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://benswift.me/blog/2026/02/18/ben-s-dev-setup-2026-edition/https://benswift.me/blog/2026/02/18/ben-s-dev-setup-2026-edition/Ghostty, zellij, helix and a life lived in text tokens---why I ditched Zed and went back to purely terminal-based development.Wed, 18 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://benswift.me/blog/2026/02/17/comp4020-sharp-tools/https://benswift.me/blog/2026/02/17/comp4020-sharp-tools/Getting 200 students adequate access to frontier coding agents is the hard logistics problem behind COMP4020.Tue, 17 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://benswift.me/blog/2026/02/09/llms-unplugged-at-brimbank-tech-school/https://benswift.me/blog/2026/02/09/llms-unplugged-at-brimbank-tech-school/A hands-on AI workshop for educators at VU Sunshine Campus, covering AI fundamentals, paper-and-pen predictive models, and change management.Mon, 09 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://benswift.me/blog/2026/02/06/ai-agents-on-the-atmosphere/https://benswift.me/blog/2026/02/06/ai-agents-on-the-atmosphere/Stateful AI agents are showing up on Bluesky and ATproto---with soul documents, read/write memory, and scheduled self-reflection.Fri, 06 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://benswift.me/blog/2026/02/05/out-of-the-browser-on-the-power-of-interfaces-for-agentic-ai/https://benswift.me/blog/2026/02/05/out-of-the-browser-on-the-power-of-interfaces-for-agentic-ai/The leap from browser-based ChatGPT to terminal-native coding agents isn't about smarter models---it's about removing the sandbox.Thu, 05 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://benswift.me/blog/2025/12/23/coding-agents-and-the-plasticity-of-code/https://benswift.me/blog/2025/12/23/coding-agents-and-the-plasticity-of-code/Code has always felt brittle---most changes break it. Coding agents change that dynamic, absorbing the cognitive load of big refactors and making code feel plastic rather than rigid.Tue, 23 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://benswift.me/blog/2025/12/19/comp4020-rapid-prototyping-for-the-web/https://benswift.me/blog/2025/12/19/comp4020-rapid-prototyping-for-the-web/Designing a new ANU course on building web apps with coding agents---studio-based, prototype-driven, moving beyond naive vibecoding.Fri, 19 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://benswift.me/blog/2025/12/17/extempore-s-aliiiiive-on-aarch64/https://benswift.me/blog/2025/12/17/extempore-s-aliiiiive-on-aarch64/Extempore now builds and runs on Apple Silicon. The audio libraries work, the build process is cleaner, and Rosetta is no longer required for livecoding.Wed, 17 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://benswift.me/blog/2025/12/17/fixing-slow-zed-agent-startup-times/https://benswift.me/blog/2025/12/17/fixing-slow-zed-agent-startup-times/Claude Code sessions in Zed were taking 30 seconds to start. The culprit: npx fetching Playwright MCP on every launch. The fix involves global installs and mise shims.Wed, 17 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://benswift.me/blog/2025/12/11/neon-perceptron-digital-twin/https://benswift.me/blog/2025/12/11/neon-perceptron-digital-twin/An interactive 3D digital twin of the Neon Perceptron---a physical neural network built from flexible LEDs. Draw on the input grid and watch activations flow.Thu, 11 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://benswift.me/blog/2025/12/10/llms-unplugged-teaching-language-models-with-pen-paper-and-dice/https://benswift.me/blog/2025/12/10/llms-unplugged-teaching-language-models-with-pen-paper-and-dice/A hands-on teaching resource where learners build bigram language models with pen, paper, and dice---no computers required. Tested with school students, public servants, and tech professionals.Wed, 10 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://benswift.me/blog/2025/12/03/blog-archaeology/https://benswift.me/blog/2025/12/03/blog-archaeology/Spelunking through git history to trace this blog from Octopress in 2012 through two Clojure experiments, six years of Jekyll, and now VitePress.Wed, 03 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://benswift.me/blog/2025/12/02/switching-from-jekyll-to-vitepress/https://benswift.me/blog/2025/12/02/switching-from-jekyll-to-vitepress/After ten years on Jekyll, I moved this site to VitePress. Notes on migrating content, components, reveal.js slides, and data loading.Tue, 02 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://benswift.me/blog/2025/11/24/11ty-and-vite-for-modern-static-websites/https://benswift.me/blog/2025/11/24/11ty-and-vite-for-modern-static-websites/How to set up 11ty with Vite and Tailwind v4 for static sites that need proper asset bundling, HMR, and npm ecosystem access.Mon, 24 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://benswift.me/blog/2025/11/12/seeing-ai-tasks-through-a-tam-lens/https://benswift.me/blog/2025/11/12/seeing-ai-tasks-through-a-tam-lens/AI adoption research keeps asking 'do you use ChatGPT?' when it should ask 'for which tasks?' A task-level framework for thinking about when LLMs actually save you time.Wed, 12 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://benswift.me/blog/2025/11/11/tracking-aps-ai-transparency-statements/https://benswift.me/blog/2025/11/11/tracking-aps-ai-transparency-statements/A new project that scrapes and version-controls AI Transparency Statements from Australian Government agencies, tracking how they change over time.Tue, 11 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://benswift.me/blog/2025/10/08/cybernetic-studio-launch-sxsw-sydney/https://benswift.me/blog/2025/10/08/cybernetic-studio-launch-sxsw-sydney/Launching the Cybernetic Studio at SXSW Sydney with human-scale AI artefacts: a wooden neural network table and a pen-and-paper language model.Wed, 08 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://benswift.me/blog/2025/09/12/the-great-2025-email-yak-shave-o365-mbsync-mu-neomutt-msmtp/https://benswift.me/blog/2025/09/12/the-great-2025-email-yak-shave-o365-mbsync-mu-neomutt-msmtp/Rebuilding a terminal email setup with OAuth2, Office365 and neomutt in Zed---the hard-won config so you don't have to waste as many hours as I did.Fri, 12 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://benswift.me/blog/2025/07/23/running-claude-code-within-zed/https://benswift.me/blog/2025/07/23/running-claude-code-within-zed/Switching from Zed's Agent panel to Claude Code for flat-fee pricing, with a simple task config to keep the workflow inside Zed.Wed, 23 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://benswift.me/blog/2025/07/17/agentic-ai-llms-with-stones/https://benswift.me/blog/2025/07/17/agentic-ai-llms-with-stones/Agentic AI is about giving LLMs tools to act in the world without asking first. The real shift isn't new capabilities---it's the removal of the human bottleneck.Thu, 17 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://benswift.me/blog/2025/07/16/automated-rpi-web-kiosk-setup-in-2025/https://benswift.me/blog/2025/07/16/automated-rpi-web-kiosk-setup-in-2025/A fully scripted burn-and-boot process for setting up Raspberry Pi 5s as fullscreen Chromium kiosks with Tailscale, WiFi and 4K support.Wed, 16 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://benswift.me/blog/2025/07/07/diychatgpt-short-course-for-anu-undergraduates/https://benswift.me/blog/2025/07/07/diychatgpt-short-course-for-anu-undergraduates/A hands-on 3-hour workshop where ANU undergrads train their own language model from scratch with pen, paper and dice---ending with a poetry slam.Mon, 07 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://benswift.me/blog/2025/06/06/agentic-elixir-superpowers-zed-tidewave-ashai/https://benswift.me/blog/2025/06/06/agentic-elixir-superpowers-zed-tidewave-ashai/How to wire up Zed, Tidewave and AshAI as MCP servers for an agentic Elixir development workflow, with a helper script to glue it all together.Fri, 06 Jun 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://benswift.me/blog/2025/02/18/deepseek-and-shallow-moats/https://benswift.me/blog/2025/02/18/deepseek-and-shallow-moats/Universities betting big on exclusive AI partnerships risk repeating the MOOC mistake. DeepSeek R1 shows why staying provider-agnostic is the smarter play.Tue, 18 Feb 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://benswift.me/blog/2024/11/07/llm-parlour-games-for-overeducated-wankers/https://benswift.me/blog/2024/11/07/llm-parlour-games-for-overeducated-wankers/Workshop materials for designing and playing parlour games with LLMs, including LLM-augmented 20 Questions and Adventures in Amphibology.Thu, 07 Nov 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://benswift.me/blog/2024/09/20/format-markdown-on-save-in-zed-using-prettier/https://benswift.me/blog/2024/09/20/format-markdown-on-save-in-zed-using-prettier/Zed config snippet for auto-formatting Markdown files on save with Prettier, including prose wrapping at 80 columns.Fri, 20 Sep 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://benswift.me/blog/2024/08/12/hosting-a-genai-trivia-night/https://benswift.me/blog/2024/08/12/hosting-a-genai-trivia-night/Using an LLM to generate trivia questions, then letting teams challenge any answers they think the model hallucinated.Mon, 12 Aug 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://benswift.me/blog/2024/05/30/livecoding-set-iclc-24-shanghai-concert-hall/https://benswift.me/blog/2024/05/30/livecoding-set-iclc-24-shanghai-concert-hall/Performing a livecoding music set at Shanghai Concert Hall as part of ICLC 2024.Thu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://benswift.me/blog/2023/06/01/congrats-dr-chenchen-xu/https://benswift.me/blog/2023/06/01/congrats-dr-chenchen-xu/Celebrating Chenchen Xu's PhD on weakly supervised sign language understanding, completed through lockdown.Thu, 01 Jun 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://benswift.me/blog/2023/05/13/parental-leave-take-3/https://benswift.me/blog/2023/05/13/parental-leave-take-3/Off on another round of parental leave until March 2024.Sat, 13 May 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://benswift.me/blog/2023/02/08/writing-graph-theory-proofs-with-chatgpt/https://benswift.me/blog/2023/02/08/writing-graph-theory-proofs-with-chatgpt/Asking ChatGPT to prove the five colour and four colour theorems with my mathematician father-in-law, and his reaction to the results.Wed, 08 Feb 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://benswift.me/blog/2023/02/02/academic-integrity-policy-re-chatgpt-and-generative-ai-tools/https://benswift.me/blog/2023/02/02/academic-integrity-policy-re-chatgpt-and-generative-ai-tools/Draft guidelines for allowing ChatGPT in university coursework while maintaining academic integrity, with citation and accountability requirements.Thu, 02 Feb 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://benswift.me/blog/2023/02/02/jekyll-build-speedups-for-ruby-3-2/https://benswift.me/blog/2023/02/02/jekyll-build-speedups-for-ruby-3-2/Ruby 3.2's YJIT gave my Jekyll builds a 4.8x speedup---from 17 seconds down to under 4.Thu, 02 Feb 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://benswift.me/blog/2023/01/26/congrats-dr-kieran-browne/https://benswift.me/blog/2023/01/26/congrats-dr-kieran-browne/Celebrating Kieran Browne's PhD graduation and his thesis on the neurological metaphor in deep learning.Thu, 26 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://benswift.me/blog/2023/01/22/handling-square-webhooks-in-phoenix/https://benswift.me/blog/2023/01/22/handling-square-webhooks-in-phoenix/How to receive and validate Square payment webhooks in an Elixir/Phoenix app, with code for HMAC signature verification.Sun, 22 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://benswift.me/blog/2023/01/16/chatgpt-in-the-classroom/https://benswift.me/blog/2023/01/16/chatgpt-in-the-classroom/Practical advice for educators on incorporating ChatGPT into their teaching this semester rather than pretending it doesn't exist.Mon, 16 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://benswift.me/blog/2023/01/11/rclone-exclude-all-git-repos/https://benswift.me/blog/2023/01/11/rclone-exclude-all-git-repos/A bash script to auto-exclude all git repos from rclone backups, since rclone's built-in filtering can't do it alone.Wed, 11 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://benswift.me/blog/2022/12/07/a-school-of-cybernetics-strategy-meeting-with-chatgpt/https://benswift.me/blog/2022/12/07/a-school-of-cybernetics-strategy-meeting-with-chatgpt/My first ChatGPT conversation: asking it to brainstorm strategy for the ANU School of Cybernetics. Impressive output, but we're going to need to get better at drinking from the bullshit firehose.Wed, 07 Dec 2022 00:00:00 GMThttps://benswift.me/blog/2022/12/07/drinking-from-the-bullshit-firehose/https://benswift.me/blog/2022/12/07/drinking-from-the-bullshit-firehose/Draft notes on AI-generated bullshit in higher education---the problem isn't that it's wrong, it's that Brandolini's law means we'll be overwhelmed by the sheer volume.Wed, 07 Dec 2022 00:00:00 GMThttps://benswift.me/blog/2022/12/06/ai-art-installations-and-livecoding-gigs-in-nov-dec/https://benswift.me/blog/2022/12/06/ai-art-installations-and-livecoding-gigs-in-nov-dec/A roundup of recent creative work: the Panic AI art installation with its big red button, plus a livecoding set at OzCHI 2022.Tue, 06 Dec 2022 00:00:00 GMThttps://benswift.me/blog/2022/10/13/ai-in-higher-education-dystopia-utopia-or-somewhere-in-between/https://benswift.me/blog/2022/10/13/ai-in-higher-education-dystopia-utopia-or-somewhere-in-between/AI tools in higher education won't operate in isolation---they'll reshape information flows between students, instructors and institutions in ways we need to watch carefully.Thu, 13 Oct 2022 00:00:00 GMThttps://benswift.me/blog/2022/10/12/nga-un-tour-the-hidden-gallery/https://benswift.me/blog/2022/10/12/nga-un-tour-the-hidden-gallery/An immersive cybernetic walking tour of the National Gallery of Australia after dark, co-created with BOHO Interactive and the ANU School of Cybernetics.Wed, 12 Oct 2022 00:00:00 GMThttps://benswift.me/blog/2022/09/02/running-stable-diffusion-in-a-singularity-container/https://benswift.me/blog/2022/09/02/running-stable-diffusion-in-a-singularity-container/Rough notes and a Python script for running Stable Diffusion in a Singularity container with NVIDIA GPUs.Fri, 02 Sep 2022 00:00:00 GMThttps://benswift.me/blog/2022/06/30/so-this-is-how-it-feels-when-robots-come-for-your-job/https://benswift.me/blog/2022/06/30/so-this-is-how-it-feels-when-robots-come-for-your-job/GitHub Copilot is a genuine force multiplier for coding, but human expertise is still crucial---a Conversation article on what AI assistants mean for programmers.Thu, 30 Jun 2022 00:00:00 GMThttps://benswift.me/blog/2022/06/30/what-githubs-copilot-ai-assistant-means-for-coders/https://benswift.me/blog/2022/06/30/what-githubs-copilot-ai-assistant-means-for-coders/A pointer to my Conversation article on GitHub Copilot and what AI coding assistants mean for programmers.Thu, 30 Jun 2022 00:00:00 GMThttps://benswift.me/blog/2022/06/22/redacting-craiyon-prompts-with-imagemagick/https://benswift.me/blog/2022/06/22/redacting-craiyon-prompts-with-imagemagick/A one-liner ImageMagick command to batch-redact the prompt text from craiyon (DALL-E mini) screenshot outputs.Wed, 22 Jun 2022 00:00:00 GMThttps://benswift.me/blog/2022/05/23/pulling-apart-zoom-attendance-csv-dumps-in-tidy-r/https://benswift.me/blog/2022/05/23/pulling-apart-zoom-attendance-csv-dumps-in-tidy-r/A quick tidyverse R script for parsing Zoom attendance CSVs and visualising per-participant call duration with ggplot2.Mon, 23 May 2022 00:00:00 GMThttps://benswift.me/blog/2022/03/07/teaching-the-world-to-cybernetics/https://benswift.me/blog/2022/03/07/teaching-the-world-to-cybernetics/A look at what the new Experiences Team at the ANU School of Cybernetics is building---weird, site-specific encounters with cybernetic ideas.Mon, 07 Mar 2022 00:00:00 GMThttps://benswift.me/blog/2022/02/01/running-an-ai-neural-style-transfer-model-under-singularity/https://benswift.me/blog/2022/02/01/running-an-ai-neural-style-transfer-model-under-singularity/Getting a pytorch neural style transfer model running on RTX 3090s via Singularity containers, navigating CUDA version hell along the way.Tue, 01 Feb 2022 00:00:00 GMThttps://benswift.me/blog/2022/01/20/cybernetic-futures-explained/https://benswift.me/blog/2022/01/20/cybernetic-futures-explained/Futuring works best when it's more like a radar than a lighthouse---a sense-analyse-act feedback loop, not a fixed point to steer towards.Thu, 20 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMThttps://benswift.me/blog/2021/11/11/livecoder-in-the-club-as-a-system/https://benswift.me/blog/2021/11/11/livecoder-in-the-club-as-a-system/Using cybernetics and Donella Meadows' leverage points to understand---and improve---the system of code, music and humans in a livecoding gig.Thu, 11 Nov 2021 00:00:00 GMThttps://benswift.me/blog/2021/10/27/deploying-a-phoenix-app-with-liveview-on-fly-io/https://benswift.me/blog/2021/10/27/deploying-a-phoenix-app-with-liveview-on-fly-io/Quick notes on deploying a Phoenix 1.6 LiveView app to fly.io, including gotchas with health checks and outdated guides.Wed, 27 Oct 2021 00:00:00 GMThttps://benswift.me/blog/2021/10/21/cutting-ruby-ci-pipeline-times-with-pre-installed-bundles/https://benswift.me/blog/2021/10/21/cutting-ruby-ci-pipeline-times-with-pre-installed-bundles/A multi-stage Dockerfile that pre-installs Ruby gems to cut GitLab CI build times for Jekyll sites by up to 90%.Thu, 21 Oct 2021 00:00:00 GMThttps://benswift.me/blog/2021/10/18/openconnect-setup-for-institutional-vpn-access/https://benswift.me/blog/2021/10/18/openconnect-setup-for-institutional-vpn-access/Using openconnect as a reliable alternative to the GlobalProtect client for connecting to an institutional VPN on macOS.Mon, 18 Oct 2021 00:00:00 GMThttps://benswift.me/blog/2021/09/13/feedback-in-livecoding-cui-bono/https://benswift.me/blog/2021/09/13/feedback-in-livecoding-cui-bono/A pre-class prompt for cybernetics students: watch some livecoding videos and think about what's shown, what's hidden, and who the feedback serves.Mon, 13 Sep 2021 00:00:00 GMThttps://benswift.me/blog/2021/05/11/moving-to-the-school-of-cybernetics/https://benswift.me/blog/2021/05/11/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.Tue, 11 May 2021 00:00:00 GMThttps://benswift.me/blog/2021/05/06/lens-21-final-gig-2pm-june-6-sideway/https://benswift.me/blog/2021/05/06/lens-21-final-gig-2pm-june-6-sideway/The ANU Laptop Ensemble's end-of-semester gig at sideway music bar, Sunday June 6, doors at 2pm.Thu, 06 May 2021 00:00:00 GMThttps://benswift.me/blog/2021/04/29/acmc-21-synthmoot-connections-announced-for-august-26-28/https://benswift.me/blog/2021/04/29/acmc-21-synthmoot-connections-announced-for-august-26-28/The 2021 Australasian Computer Music Conference is happening in Sydney/Melbourne/online in late August---submissions welcome.Thu, 29 Apr 2021 00:00:00 GMThttps://benswift.me/blog/2021/04/23/a-short-list-of-extempore-livecoding-tricks/https://benswift.me/blog/2021/04/23/a-short-list-of-extempore-livecoding-tricks/Handy Extempore techniques: cosr, markov chains, weighted random, relative pitches, nof vs repeat, quasiquote, clock sync and more.Fri, 23 Apr 2021 00:00:00 GMThttps://benswift.me/blog/2021/04/08/benswift-me-analytics-tracking-update/https://benswift.me/blog/2021/04/08/benswift-me-analytics-tracking-update/I've added counter.dev as a lightweight, relatively un-invasive analytics tool. Ad-blocker users still welcome.Thu, 08 Apr 2021 00:00:00 GMThttps://benswift.me/blog/2021/04/01/bulk-add-students-to-ms-teams-from-a-csv-file/https://benswift.me/blog/2021/04/01/bulk-add-students-to-ms-teams-from-a-csv-file/A PowerShell snippet for bulk-adding students to an MS Teams class from a CSV of email addresses---works on macOS and Linux too.Thu, 01 Apr 2021 00:00:00 GMThttps://benswift.me/blog/2021/03/18/anzsrc-for-codes-2020-edition/https://benswift.me/blog/2021/03/18/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.Thu, 18 Mar 2021 00:00:00 GMThttps://benswift.me/blog/2021/03/16/how-to-cite-code-leading-by-example/https://benswift.me/blog/2021/03/16/how-to-cite-code-leading-by-example/A YAML-based Statement of Originality that teaches students how to cite code, declare collaborators and list licences in every assignment.Tue, 16 Mar 2021 00:00:00 GMThttps://benswift.me/blog/2021/03/16/simple-pdf-papers-reports-with-markdown-pandoc-and-bibtex/https://benswift.me/blog/2021/03/16/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.Tue, 16 Mar 2021 00:00:00 GMThttps://benswift.me/blog/2021/02/19/respectful-learning-memes/https://benswift.me/blog/2021/02/19/respectful-learning-memes/Students make brilliant memes to explain course content to each other---so why not make that an official part of the class?Fri, 19 Feb 2021 00:00:00 GMThttps://benswift.me/blog/2021/01/25/independent-study-contract-writing-tips/https://benswift.me/blog/2021/01/25/independent-study-contract-writing-tips/Practical advice for ANU computing students on writing a capstone project description and learning outcomes that actually guide your research.Mon, 25 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMThttps://benswift.me/blog/2020/12/16/configuring-spacemacs-org-roam-org-noter-for-academic-writing-bliss/https://benswift.me/blog/2020/12/16/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.Wed, 16 Dec 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://benswift.me/blog/2020/12/11/student-project-animated-3d-code-rendering-engine/https://benswift.me/blog/2020/12/11/student-project-animated-3d-code-rendering-engine/A student project idea: real-time handwriting-style code rendering for livecoding performances, synced to the music.Fri, 11 Dec 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://benswift.me/blog/2020/09/17/creative-computing-anu-extension-course/https://benswift.me/blog/2020/09/17/creative-computing-anu-extension-course/A Creative Computing course for ACT year 11 students has been approved for 2021 through the ANU Extension program.Thu, 17 Sep 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://benswift.me/blog/2020/09/08/parental-leave-take-2/https://benswift.me/blog/2020/09/08/parental-leave-take-2/The family has grown by one, so I'm off on parental leave for the rest of the year. Back in 2021.Tue, 08 Sep 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://benswift.me/blog/2020/07/17/mbsync-v1-3-2-breaking-change/https://benswift.me/blog/2020/07/17/mbsync-v1-3-2-breaking-change/The mbsync 1.3.2 update silently requires a SubFolders setting. Here's the fix, plus a bonus mu4e prettifier.Fri, 17 Jul 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://benswift.me/blog/2020/07/15/acmc2020-organising-my-first-virtual-conference/https://benswift.me/blog/2020/07/15/acmc2020-organising-my-first-virtual-conference/A detailed rundown of the tools we used to run ACMC2020 online---YouTube Premiere, Discord, EasyChair, and a lot of ffmpeg.Wed, 15 Jul 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://benswift.me/blog/2020/06/11/lens-2020-final-gig-stream-tomorrow-at-8pm/https://benswift.me/blog/2020/06/11/lens-2020-final-gig-stream-tomorrow-at-8pm/The ANU Laptop Ensemble's S1 2020 final gig is streaming live on YouTube this Friday night.Thu, 11 Jun 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://benswift.me/blog/2020/04/30/two-way-osc-communication-between-extempore-and-pd/https://benswift.me/blog/2020/04/30/two-way-osc-communication-between-extempore-and-pd/A step-by-step guide to sending and receiving OSC messages between Extempore and Pure Data.Thu, 30 Apr 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://benswift.me/blog/2020/04/18/a-call-up-to-fight-covid19/https://benswift.me/blog/2020/04/18/a-call-up-to-fight-covid19/Joining an ANU COVID-19 taskforce to build epidemiological simulation tools for the Canberra health system.Sat, 18 Apr 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://benswift.me/blog/2020/03/21/lens-online-the-laptop-ensemble-in-a-time-of-covid19/https://benswift.me/blog/2020/03/21/lens-online-the-laptop-ensemble-in-a-time-of-covid19/Taking the ANU Laptop Ensemble online during COVID-19---what changes, what stays the same, and why it might actually work.Sat, 21 Mar 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://benswift.me/blog/2020/03/11/reimagine-fellowship-uk-trip-report/https://benswift.me/blog/2020/03/11/reimagine-fellowship-uk-trip-report/Highlights from a UK research trip: ICLC, chatting with Sam Aaron and Simon Peyton Jones, and falling over on a Scottish hill.Wed, 11 Mar 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://benswift.me/blog/2020/02/14/command-control-giving-os-aware-keybinding-hints/https://benswift.me/blog/2020/02/14/command-control-giving-os-aware-keybinding-hints/A small JS snippet that auto-swaps Ctrl/Cmd in keyboard shortcut hints based on the reader's OS.Fri, 14 Feb 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://benswift.me/blog/2020/02/06/iclc-extempore-workshop/https://benswift.me/blog/2020/02/06/iclc-extempore-workshop/Workshop materials and outline for the Introduction to music-making in Extempore session at ICLC 2020, Limerick.Thu, 06 Feb 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://benswift.me/blog/2020/01/29/acmc-20-submissions-now-open/https://benswift.me/blog/2020/01/29/acmc-20-submissions-now-open/The Australasian Computer Music Conference is coming to ANU in July 2020, with a theme of inclusion. Submissions are open.Wed, 29 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://benswift.me/blog/2020/01/28/extempore-workshop-iclc-20-feb-6-limerick-ie/https://benswift.me/blog/2020/01/28/extempore-workshop-iclc-20-feb-6-limerick-ie/A hands-on intro to making music with Extempore at ICLC 2020 in Limerick---no experience required, just bring a laptop.Tue, 28 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://benswift.me/blog/2020/01/28/upcoming-gig-smoke-jan-30/https://benswift.me/blog/2020/01/28/upcoming-gig-smoke-jan-30/A free evening of experimental sounds---livecoding, processed voice and neural networks---at the ANU School of Music.Tue, 28 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://benswift.me/blog/2020/01/27/euclidean-rhythms-in-extempore/https://benswift.me/blog/2020/01/27/euclidean-rhythms-in-extempore/A recursive Scheme implementation of Euclidean rhythms in Extempore, plus some unexpectedly cool visual patterns.Mon, 27 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://benswift.me/blog/2020/01/25/lens-in-s1-2020/https://benswift.me/blog/2020/01/25/lens-in-s1-2020/The ANU Laptop Ensemble is back for Semester 1 2020, open to students in music, art, CS and beyond.Sat, 25 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://benswift.me/blog/2019/11/17/anu-extension-creative-code/https://benswift.me/blog/2019/11/17/anu-extension-creative-code/A pointer to the ANU Extension creative code program.Sun, 17 Nov 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://benswift.me/blog/2019/11/17/benswift-me-dev-roadmap-for-2020/https://benswift.me/blog/2019/11/17/benswift-me-dev-roadmap-for-2020/My plans for this website in 2020: Jekyll 4, maybe Eleventy, maybe Netlify, maybe Tailwind.Sun, 17 Nov 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://benswift.me/blog/2019/11/08/comp1720-2019-major-project-exhibtion/https://benswift.me/blog/2019/11/08/comp1720-2019-major-project-exhibtion/Come see the COMP1720 Art & Interaction in New Media major project exhibition---this year's theme is listening in/listening out.Fri, 08 Nov 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://benswift.me/blog/2019/11/07/codesign-culture-lab-workshop/https://benswift.me/blog/2019/11/07/codesign-culture-lab-workshop/A hands-on workshop where participants spin code/creativity/culture wheels and design a real c/c/c studio assessment task.Thu, 07 Nov 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://benswift.me/blog/2019/10/31/anu-laptop-ensemble-showcase-s2-2019/https://benswift.me/blog/2019/10/31/anu-laptop-ensemble-showcase-s2-2019/Photos from the ANU Laptop Ensemble's Semester 2 2019 final performances at the School of Music composition showcase.Thu, 31 Oct 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://benswift.me/blog/2019/10/21/ben-and-comp2300-next-year/https://benswift.me/blog/2019/10/21/ben-and-comp2300-next-year/I'm handing COMP2300 over to Charles Martin in 2020 so I can focus on the c/c/c studio Reimagine Fellowship.Mon, 21 Oct 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://benswift.me/blog/2019/10/16/making-altair-vega-lite-charts-readable-without-squinting/https://benswift.me/blog/2019/10/16/making-altair-vega-lite-charts-readable-without-squinting/A simple trick for making Altair chart text and marks bigger: set a small width/height and export to SVG.Wed, 16 Oct 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://benswift.me/blog/2019/10/16/package-managers-update-or-upgrade/https://benswift.me/blog/2019/10/16/package-managers-update-or-upgrade/A quiz (and a plea for consistency) on whether your package manager uses update or upgrade.Wed, 16 Oct 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://benswift.me/blog/2019/10/15/sound-file-io-in-extempore-with-libsndfile/https://benswift.me/blog/2019/10/15/sound-file-io-in-extempore-with-libsndfile/A crash course on reading, processing and writing audio files in Extempore using the libsndfile C library bindings.Tue, 15 Oct 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://benswift.me/blog/2019/10/14/iot-china-study-tour-not-happening-in-2019/https://benswift.me/blog/2019/10/14/iot-china-study-tour-not-happening-in-2019/The IoT China Study Tour at BIT isn't running this year---the New Colombo Plan grant has expired.Mon, 14 Oct 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://benswift.me/blog/2019/10/01/laptop-ensemble-in-the-canberra-times/https://benswift.me/blog/2019/10/01/laptop-ensemble-in-the-canberra-times/The ANU Laptop Ensemble got a Canberra Times feature, with encouraging words from the School of Music about code in music-making.Tue, 01 Oct 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://benswift.me/blog/2019/09/21/mapping-the-livecoding-landscape/https://benswift.me/blog/2019/09/21/mapping-the-livecoding-landscape/A reference list of key people, ICLC committees and TOPLAP nodes in the global livecoding community.Sat, 21 Sep 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://benswift.me/blog/2019/09/18/xinyus-extempore-tutorials/https://benswift.me/blog/2019/09/18/xinyus-extempore-tutorials/PRIMM-style tutorials for learning sound and music in Extempore, from sine waves through to samplers and metronomes.Wed, 18 Sep 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://benswift.me/blog/2019/09/09/reimagine-fellowship-planning-workshop/https://benswift.me/blog/2019/09/09/reimagine-fellowship-planning-workshop/A rough map of the people, structures and processes already in place as the c/c/c studio takes shape.Mon, 09 Sep 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://benswift.me/blog/2019/08/30/im-a-reimagine-fellow/https://benswift.me/blog/2019/08/30/im-a-reimagine-fellow/I've been awarded an inaugural CECS Reimagine Fellowship, which means the c/c/c studio is happening.Fri, 30 Aug 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://benswift.me/blog/2019/08/06/making-the-most-of-meetings-with-research-students/https://benswift.me/blog/2019/08/06/making-the-most-of-meetings-with-research-students/Four standard questions I use to keep one-on-one research supervision meetings focused and useful.Tue, 06 Aug 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://benswift.me/blog/2019/07/29/livecoding-gig-this-friday-5-30pm-anu-drill-hall-gallery/https://benswift.me/blog/2019/07/29/livecoding-gig-this-friday-5-30pm-anu-drill-hall-gallery/Livecoding with Charles Martin and Kieran Browne at Drill Hall Gallery, plus ANU Laptop Ensemble members.Mon, 29 Jul 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://benswift.me/blog/2019/07/24/livecoding-article-on-the-abc/https://benswift.me/blog/2019/07/24/livecoding-article-on-the-abc/I was interviewed for an ABC News article about the Australian livecoding scene.Wed, 24 Jul 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://benswift.me/blog/2019/07/17/in-place-xml-tree-mutation-for-jekyll-productivity/https://benswift.me/blog/2019/07/17/in-place-xml-tree-mutation-for-jekyll-productivity/Profiling a slow Jekyll build, finding the culprit in Nokogiri node copying, and getting a 20x speedup by switching to in-place tree mutation.Wed, 17 Jul 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://benswift.me/blog/2019/03/20/reimagine-fellow-project-pitch/https://benswift.me/blog/2019/03/20/reimagine-fellow-project-pitch/The project plan for the c/c/c studio, a creative code outreach program bringing art, music and code to high school students through the ANU Reimagine Fellowship.Wed, 20 Mar 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://benswift.me/blog/2019/03/09/mapping-over-table-rows-in-org-mode/https://benswift.me/blog/2019/03/09/mapping-over-table-rows-in-org-mode/How to apply elisp functions to org-mode table rows using named tables and code blocks, with practical caveats and a Pride and Prejudice example.Sat, 09 Mar 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://benswift.me/blog/2019/02/26/on-parental-leave-and-auto-reply-messages/https://benswift.me/blog/2019/02/26/on-parental-leave-and-auto-reply-messages/Going on parental leave, deleting all unread emails on return, and the surprisingly liberating auto-reply policy behind it.Tue, 26 Feb 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://benswift.me/blog/2019/02/21/dynamic-reimagine-logo/https://benswift.me/blog/2019/02/21/dynamic-reimagine-logo/An interactive, spinnable version of the ANU Reimagine logo, built with ClojureScript and Reagent.Thu, 21 Feb 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://benswift.me/blog/2019/02/16/algorithmic-uni-marketing-billboards/https://benswift.me/blog/2019/02/16/algorithmic-uni-marketing-billboards/A generative 'verb your verb' billboard that picks random verbs and Unsplash backgrounds, built with reveal.js and later rewritten in ClojureScript.Sat, 16 Feb 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://benswift.me/blog/2019/02/07/reimagining-engineering-cs-at-the-anu/https://benswift.me/blog/2019/02/07/reimagining-engineering-cs-at-the-anu/My pitch to become a Reimagine Fellow at ANU, making the case for weaving art and creative practice into Engineering and Computer Science.Thu, 07 Feb 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://benswift.me/blog/2019/02/06/class-discussions-on-discourse/https://benswift.me/blog/2019/02/06/class-discussions-on-discourse/Switching from Piazza to self-hosted Discourse for a 200-student course forum, with practical notes on setup, tradeoffs, and what's missing.Wed, 06 Feb 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://benswift.me/blog/2019/01/31/on-livecoding-annotations-and-visualisations/https://benswift.me/blog/2019/01/31/on-livecoding-annotations-and-visualisations/A response to Charlie Roberts' essay on code annotations, exploring the tension between visualising program state and editing live code.Thu, 31 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://benswift.me/blog/2019/01/29/oils-from-weihai/https://benswift.me/blog/2019/01/29/oils-from-weihai/A surprise four-hour portrait sitting for a painting class at Shandong University, and the oil paintings that came out of it.Tue, 29 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://benswift.me/blog/2019/01/22/old-livecoding-photo-roundup/https://benswift.me/blog/2019/01/22/old-livecoding-photo-roundup/Collecting photos from a decade of livecoding gigs, talks and demos. Got an old photo of me performing? Send it through.Tue, 22 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://benswift.me/blog/2019/01/17/highlight-js-with-xtlang-support/https://benswift.me/blog/2019/01/17/highlight-js-with-xtlang-support/Getting syntax highlighting for Extempore's xtlang working on this blog, told as an FAQ full of hacks and node build shenanigans.Thu, 17 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://benswift.me/blog/2019/01/02/the-annual-benswift-me-re-write-2019-edition/https://benswift.me/blog/2019/01/02/the-annual-benswift-me-re-write-2019-edition/Another year, another website rewrite. This time it's hand-crafted HTML & CSS with modern grid layouts and the Inter UI typeface.Wed, 02 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://benswift.me/blog/2018/09/28/another-revealjs-plugin-for-jekyll/https://benswift.me/blog/2018/09/28/another-revealjs-plugin-for-jekyll/A Jekyll plugin that turns a single markdown file into reveal.js slides, splitting on headings like pandoc does.Fri, 28 Sep 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://benswift.me/blog/2018/06/22/chi-hangs/https://benswift.me/blog/2018/06/22/chi-hangs/A quick photo of Kieran and me at CHI, where our AI divination ritual seems to have started some conversations.Fri, 22 Jun 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://benswift.me/blog/2018/06/22/hosting-a-self-built-jekyll-site-on-gh-pages/https://benswift.me/blog/2018/06/22/hosting-a-self-built-jekyll-site-on-gh-pages/A simple Makefile for building Jekyll locally with custom plugins and pushing the output to GitHub Pages.Fri, 22 Jun 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://benswift.me/blog/2018/06/06/anu-laptop-orchestra/https://benswift.me/blog/2018/06/06/anu-laptop-orchestra/Putting together a laptop orchestra at ANU---looking for students into livecoding, VJing, or organising creative tech gigs for credit.Wed, 06 Jun 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://benswift.me/blog/2018/06/05/centre-for-the-public-awareness-of-code/https://benswift.me/blog/2018/06/05/centre-for-the-public-awareness-of-code/Most people can name a favourite film or band, but not a favourite algorithm. We need code communicators doing what Carl Sagan did for space.Tue, 05 Jun 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://benswift.me/blog/2018/04/24/the-other-side-algorithm-as-ritual-in-artificial-intelligence/https://benswift.me/blog/2018/04/24/the-other-side-algorithm-as-ritual-in-artificial-intelligence/Kieran Browne and I performed a live AI divination ritual at alt.chi---using analog computing to commune with an artificial intelligence.Tue, 24 Apr 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://benswift.me/blog/2017/09/06/telopea-hour-of-code/https://benswift.me/blog/2017/09/06/telopea-hour-of-code/Links for Telopea Hour of Code students: the p5 web editor and presentation slides.Wed, 06 Sep 2017 00:00:00 GMThttps://benswift.me/blog/2017/08/11/science-week-gig/https://benswift.me/blog/2017/08/11/science-week-gig/Playing a livecoding set at the ACT Science Week launch party tonight. Short notice, but there might still be tickets.Fri, 11 Aug 2017 00:00:00 GMThttps://benswift.me/blog/2017/07/10/comp1720-teaser/https://benswift.me/blog/2017/07/10/comp1720-teaser/Five reasons to take COMP1720, ANU's art-with-code course---now using p5.js in the browser, with more sound and music than ever.Mon, 10 Jul 2017 00:00:00 GMThttps://benswift.me/blog/2017/07/06/benswift-me-update-july-2017-edition/https://benswift.me/blog/2017/07/06/benswift-me-update-july-2017-edition/Another redesign of benswift.me---this time aiming to be the home for livecoding, research, and making things with computers.Thu, 06 Jul 2017 00:00:00 GMThttps://benswift.me/blog/2016/12/01/blog-refresh/https://benswift.me/blog/2016/12/01/blog-refresh/Migrated to Cryogen and moved the Extempore docs to their own site. Some links are broken, bear with me.Thu, 01 Dec 2016 00:00:00 GMT