Mt. Solitary, Blue Mountains, Australia
Mt. Solitary, Blue Mountains, Australia

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I have been blogging for more than ten years about all sorts of things that interest me. You can find more of my writing on my digital garden where I keep my less polished thoughts and notes, and on Angophora, my other blog where I share writing that doesn’t naturally fit on this technically-slanted personal website.

2026

Apr 19 Building an OPNsense router
Feb 15 lit: Version control with good vibes
Feb 7 Upgrading my home network to support VLANs and 10Gbps
Jan 31 Upgrading my Wi-Fi network
Jan 27 Waratah: introduction and plan

2025

Mar 30 Angophora
Mar 19 GreenChainer
Mar 16 How will LLMs take our jobs?
Jan 4 My setup (2025)
Jan 1 Hugo migration

2024

Aug 6 Ten years of this site
Jun 6 Israeli electorates
May 15 Notes on Notes on the Synthesis of Form
Mar 10 nitzanboys.com
Mar 8 The Green Chain Walk
Feb 10 Psephulator

2023

Dec 2 The relationship between technical debt and technical documentation
Oct 10 Rustycricket
Apr 21 This is your brain on ChatGPT
Feb 10 Building iOS apps with React Native

2022

Aug 18 Conquering the last piece of the stack with React
Jan 8 The ubiquity of linear programming

2021

Aug 1 Australian elections under PR
Mar 23 My setup (2021)
Jan 20 The wonders of org-mode
Jan 10 Mt. Solitary

2020

Oct 5 Multilevel regression with poststratification (MRP)
Sep 1 Deriving Kepler's laws from Newton's laws
Jul 18 Encrypting files in emacs org-mode
Jun 17 Multilevel regression
May 20 Getting started with emacs

2019

Dec 21 The 2019 UK election under AV
Nov 30 My setup (2019)
Aug 14 Regression
Jan 27 The curse of dimensionality and the weak law of large numbers

2018

Jul 19 Emma Chisit
May 28 Deep learning and the universal approximation theorem
May 28 The Bias-Variance tradeoff

2017

Oct 8 The 2016 Australian election (New Zealand rules)
Feb 11 trendyscraper

2016

Oct 25 Installing MediaWiki on a DigitalOcean droplet (including Wikipedia navbars)
Oct 15 My setup (2016)
Aug 24 Call your mum
Aug 17 Australian federal election post-mortem

2015

Jul 2 Lifetime flight simulator
May 28 Forecasting Australian elections - the tricky seats
May 21 Marginal seat polls and the strong transition model
May 7 Sentiment analysis of Q&A tweets
Apr 2 My setup (2015)
Mar 30 Pitchfork and my iTunes library
Mar 13 Aggregating Israeli opinion polls
Feb 13 Clustering Australian electorates by demographic variables
Jan 25 Correcting for reliability in Australian election polls
Jan 19 My PhD

2014

Oct 6 Difficulties in forecasting elections in Australia
Sep 8 Scraping Gumtree
Jul 16 clintonboys.com