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https://benswift.me/blog/2019/10/16/making-altair-vega-lite-charts-readable-without-squinting · 16 Oct 2019
My love for the Grammar of Graphics runs deep, and in particular for Hadley Wickham's famous which showed me the light back when I was a young PhD student.…
https://benswift.me/blog/2019/07/17/in-place-xml-tree-mutation-for-jekyll-productivity · 17 Jul 2019
I wrote a reveal.js plugin for Jekyll so that I can make nice slides (especially for my ANU courses). Recently, though, I've been touching up the COMP1720…
https://benswift.me/blog/2019/03/09/mapping-over-table-rows-in-org-mode · 9 Mar 2019
I'm an Emacs guy, and so if I've got some simple tabular data I'd much rather keep it in an org-mode table than have to fire up Excel. Here's an example: If…
https://benswift.me/blog/2019/02/21/dynamic-reimagine-logo · 21 Feb 2019
I keep harping on about the Reimagine project because I'm super pumped about what it means for the way we do Engineering Computer Science here at the ANU (see…
https://benswift.me/blog/2019/02/16/algorithmic-uni-marketing-billboards · 16 Feb 2019
In the spirit of Murdoch University's free your think marketing campaign, I've put together a dynamic full-page ad billboard as my pitch for the ANU's next…
https://benswift.me/blog/2019/02/06/class-discussions-on-discourse · 6 Feb 2019
In 2018 I (with the support of the Teaching & Learning IT team in my School) switched from Piazza to a self-hosted Discourse instance for class discussions.…
https://benswift.me/blog/2019/01/17/highlight-js-with-xtlang-support · 17 Jan 2019
Note: adding syntax-highlighted xtlang to your website is now easier than ever because highlightjs-extempore is an official hljs module. While this page is…
https://benswift.me/blog/2019/01/02/the-annual-benswift-me-re-write-2019-edition · 2 Jan 2019
Welcome, traveller. You've managed to find my blog without being eaten by a grue. If you haven't visited for a while, you might have noticed that I've…
https://benswift.me/blog/2018/06/22/hosting-a-self-built-jekyll-site-on-gh-pages · 22 Jun 2018
This blog is built from markdown files using Jekyll hosted on GitHub pages, which saves a lot of hassle involved with DIY hosting. There are a bunch of useful…
https://benswift.me/blog/2017/07/10/comp1720-teaser · 10 Jul 2017
If you're an ANU student and you want to learn how to make art with code, then sign up for COMP1720/6720 in semester 2, 2017. Taught by me and a bunch of…