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
- Friday 7 November, 2025 Early LISP history 1956—1959
- Friday 7 November, 2025 The history of Lisp
- Friday 7 November, 2025 History of Lisp
- Tuesday 7 October, 2025 Brave New World and Brave New World Revisited
- Sunday 5 October, 2025 Neuromancer (Sprawl #1)
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