I spent some of this week working on Gephi plugins. After a conversation with a colleague, I started porting the Image Preview plugin to the latest version. I thought of doing this earlier this year, but no direct need. I did use some AI help for some of the Java an the port. Next up […]
This post is mainly a note to self. I have recently been porting an old Gephi plugin to run on Gephi 0.11.1 that required quite a lot of work, searching, and a little AI augmentation to resolve some issues that were out of my experience. One of the challenges was that the package would occasionally […]
A long couple of weeks. The main task for this week has been to develop the App Histories toolkit and begin updating the documentation as well. It now needs some testing and beginning to use it for some actual work. Next steps will be to develop some tools to interact with the data, but I […]
I found this interview from PRCarnet World with Lev Manovich that I thought was interesting.
I am presenting a paper at King’s College London next month (June 2026) and have posted the repository as Audio CCS for now. I am hoping that this will become a touch larger. For now it is just the initial data and templates.
Software tasks for this week have focused on a new project tracing AI in mobile applications. This is part of a fellowship project to develop a wider toolkit for app studies to run on High Performance Computers. While I have an existing toolkit, it is designed for laptops or High Throughput processes. The current project […]
I was reading Mary Beard’s Talking Classics: The Shock of the Old (Profile Books, London, 2026) through curiosity about why learn the classics and as an exercise in reading. I did Latin at school many years ago and have forgotten a fair amount. However, she discusses the use of diacritics in the production of Greek […]
I recently read a couple of books that have links to sound and audio in different domains. Keza Macdonald’s Super Nintendo: How One Japanese Company Helped the World Have Fun (Guardian Faber, London, 2026). It is a journalistic run over the history of secretive company through their games and systems. My previous 1980s experience of […]
I recently read Marion Coutts’s What Did the Deep Sea Say? (Fern Press, 2026), after seeing a piece in the Observer a little while ago. The book is a meditation on grief that uses the natural world as a mirror and highly worth reading for that alone. However, I am more interested in the pages […]
Came across this via other social media, but this video of a synth powered by plane traffic caught my ears. https://youtu.be/hYLcwwlLMU8?si=iT20b1BZASfIGnWQ
