Article series
I tend to write short-form articles on this site. Some of these I’ve brought together as curated series that can be read together as long-form.
An annotated Lisp bibliography, a curated and commented list of references into the enormous Lisp literature
Bird counting with acoustic sensing, using largely off-the-shelf hardware to drive some experiments in data analytics for estimating bird abundance
A citizen sensing project to explore doing environment sensing with off-the-shelf Arduino hardware
Book reviews, including all those read by my book club over the past years
Recent articles
- Saturday 26 April, 2025 The Mysterious Case of the Victorian Female Detective
- Sunday 6 April, 2025 Rogue Heroes: The History of the SAS, Britain’s Secret Special Forces Unit That Sabotaged the Nazis and Changed the Nature of War
- Tuesday 1 April, 2025 Mr. Nice
- Sunday 30 March, 2025 If Then: How One Data Company Invented the Future
- Sunday 23 March, 2025 Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
Selected articles
In computer science there are only two kinds of PhD: you just have to decide which one yours will be
… and there’s only one computer science book worth reading twice
Me and my research, how and why to choose (and change) your research topic
How to write an abstract for a paper, a skill every academic and student needs to learn
The experience of self-publishing a scientific textbook, in case you want to do so yourself