Writing

Blog posts, research articles, and opinions on design, code, and making things.

Open Stack Blog Workflow

Relearning old lessons of not getting locked into closed website solutions (iWeb anybody?) This is a record of my building an open stack website content managment and editing workflow.

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Nothing Scales Like Stupid

A comment on the pace of change in computer use and the level of risk taking

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Granular analysis of AI in design curriculum

A Granular Approach to AI's Impact on Design Practice

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Project Blenderite

Building Blenderite: An Open-Source Product Visualisation Studio for Blender

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AI Research Scale: A Framework for Discussing AI Use in Research

Introducing a prototype tool for research teams to evaluate and discuss appropriate levels of AI assistance across the doctoral research lifecycle

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The Foul Rag and Bone Shop

An essay on how in navigating the impact of AI on our life and work we should return to consider the thinking of the early workers in the field.

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Be Lucky

This is a test of media system

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First Light: How much can you learn from one blinking red light?

AI generated report on my work recapping on my python and physical computing skills

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Pi Sandbox: A 16-Session Learning Plan

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ObsLite v2.2 - HTML Export and Cross-Platform Improvements

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Building ObsLite: A Lightweight Obsidian Alternative for Raspberry Pi

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Human Factors

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After the Flood

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Using Gemini CLI to build a Jekyll edit and post tool

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Yadda

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This is a Test

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This is a test two

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Testing Gemini CLI

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AI in research tool, toy or top dog?

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Copper Coast: AI Co-development Case Study

Documenting the development of a ceramics showcase website through human-AI collaboration

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2025 05 08 Obsidian Enhanced Jekyll

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From Lost Account to Live Site: A GitHub & Jekyll Recovery Journey

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Building a Feature-Rich Markdown Editor with a Single HTML File

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Feeling Rusty?

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Building a New Home

Why I'm moving away from WordPress and building something better

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Portfolio is such a big word

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ChatGPT Ate My Homework

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Qualitative analysis with Jupyter

Playing Tag! Extending Obsidians capability to analyse tags with python

Qualitative Analysis in Obsidian

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Obsidian for Qualatative Analysis

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Building a Virtual Studio

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Zotero to Obsidian

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Now with graphs!

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VR in design and design in VR

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AI presona and silicon samples

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AI impact on Education

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What the thunder said

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AI supported literature review and rapid prototyping

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Red Dot: Blender vs Solidworks

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Cleaning House

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Open Product Visualisation

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Jekyll and Bundle Setup

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Welcome to Jekyll!

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Welcome to Jekyll!

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