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
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
- Sunday 21 April, 2024 Beyond
- Sunday 21 April, 2024 The Emergence of Numerical Weather Prediction: Richardson’s Dream
- Friday 12 April, 2024 TIL: Cognitohazards
- Sunday 7 April, 2024 The Great Post Office Scandal: The fight to expose a multimillion pound IT disaster which put innocent people in jail
- Tuesday 2 April, 2024 Loving Common Lisp, or the savvy programmer’s secret weapon
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