benswift.me

My pitch to become a Reimagine Fellow at ANU, making the case for weaving art and creative practice into Engineering and Computer Science.

Switching from Piazza to self-hosted Discourse for a 200-student course forum, with practical notes on setup, tradeoffs, and what's missing.

A response to Charlie Roberts' essay on code annotations, exploring the tension between visualising program state and editing live code.

A surprise four-hour portrait sitting for a painting class at Shandong University, and the oil paintings that came out of it.

Collecting photos from a decade of livecoding gigs, talks and demos.

Getting syntax highlighting for Extempore's xtlang working on this blog, told as an FAQ full of hacks and node build shenanigans.

Another year, another website rewrite.

A Jekyll plugin that turns a single markdown file into reveal.js slides, splitting on headings like pandoc does.

A simple Makefile for building Jekyll locally with custom plugins and pushing the output to GitHub Pages.

A quick photo of Kieran and me at CHI, where our AI divination ritual seems to have started some conversations.

Putting together a laptop orchestra at ANU---looking for students into livecoding, VJing, or organising creative tech gigs for credit.

Most people can name a favourite film or band, but not a favourite algorithm.

Kieran Browne and I performed a live AI divination ritual at alt.chi---using analog computing to commune with an artificial intelligence.

Links for Telopea Hour of Code students: the p5 web editor and presentation slides.

Playing a livecoding set at the ACT Science Week launch party tonight.

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.

Another redesign of benswift.me---this time aiming to be the home for livecoding, research, and making things with computers.

Migrated to Cryogen and moved the Extempore docs to their own site.