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13 rounds of 100 Day Challenges including: guitar, writing, Japanese, Grid (app), health, illustration, daily UI, music, code, UX, three.js

Founded Atlantis, a global and interdisciplinary community of nerds. Like a gaming guild, but tech.

Chat-based community management platform. Svelte, Express, Node, TypeScript, PostgreSQL, Objection.js/Knex, Docker.

Fielded two sessions of demos (2.5h and 3.5h each) at Black Hat USA 2025 in Las Vegas demonstrating how to use Promptfoo to run an automated AI red team.

My first public talk! Given at a packed AI for the Rest of Us meetup. I system prompt hardening techniques for improving AI application security and robustness using Promptfoo for evals.

Designed a full brand with the team including a logo, visual identity, and website design system.

Two projects: an interactive scrollytelling site, and academic Centre site. Designed and built both; initially a Gatsby/React stack and moved to Svelte + WordPress.

Grateful for the opportunity to chat with this group of lovely young guides!

I spoke about growing up a nerd, what it was like growing up into tech as a teen, how that morphed into university, and then my career in academic and tech.

Adventures in adapting to evolving project needs at The Australian National University—a developer-designer's tale of ditching React for Svelte and shenanigans with GSAP, Leaflet, and ScrollTrigger.

I built a scrollytelling website instead of using slides for the talk, viewable on GitHub.

Introductory demo for Svelte 4 and SvelteKit; taught online. One of my favourite pieces of feedback was from a developer already familiar with frameworks - they said they tried it before and didn't quite understand, but my explanations made it not just clear but straightforward. Ran twice at ANU.

Designed a full brand and built the website with a custom film finder for a DECRA project on WordPress. Figma, GreenShift, AI, PS.

Built a brand, created associated graphics and style guide; used them to design and build an academic WordPress website.

Founded Artifex ANU, then spent eight years organising and hosting social events, AGMs, workshops, and weekly meetups. Grew and led the organising team.

Hosted weekly hangout and project mentoring sessions to build community bonds and fammiliarity with Ambassadors. Managed 36k+ member Discord + led moderation tech team. Rebuilt and relaunched Ambassador program. Co-managed the booth at Kubecon + recorded testimonials.

Ran this annually for a few years. Nature photowalk casually coaching along the way. Run annually... Ish.

Parergon is the academic journal of the Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Early Modern Studies. The journal site acts as a catalogue and a news source for journal activities.

Built the brand and designed the website; built it on Open Journal Systems.

Designed and built a personal academic website.

Streamlined a brand direction and customised imagery.

Built Cyber Coven visual brand with Shega Digital (Croatia).

Migrated the Execution Ballads site on Omeka to a new installation.

A personal social media assistant. Allows me to draft and schedule posts of different types as well as entire conversations to all social media platforms I regularly use that have an API.

Designed and built the CEMS (WordPress) website with a full visual brand and style guide.

Designed and built a personal academic website.

Founded [Phi] in GW1 (2009), grew it to an alliance of ten guilds, moved to GW2 (2012), joined the Dragonbrand WvW server team. Led an officer team of up to 20 running social and gaming events in multiple timezones. Diverse, international, and a community so strong it doesn't die even if I'm gone.

Understand why type safety matters and how to improve JavaScript by using TypeScript.

Frontend for a Michael Scott lewdness detector app.

Created a group dedicated towards pursing progress at frontend web development. Led multiple group learning sessions and events.

Created a full course to teach participants how to launch a side project online; covers personas, basic design, branding, visual identity, web design, intro to building landing pages, newsletters, and basic marketing. Taught in person for two years in the university labs.

Assisted with running Canberra's largest entrepreneurship program during the workshops and mentored outside of the program. I've advised 100+ teams in the ecosystem.

Gaming community website iterations: webs.com > phpBB > vBulletin > Elgg > WordPress. Customised code & UI artwork.

Explained the evolution of GraphQL and demonstrated how to use it for querying data.

Making fractal art with Apophysis. Covered basic variables and their effects. Helped troubleshoot and gave feedback. Ran this twice at ANU in 2018 and 2017 and at Digital Arts Guild in x.

Explained the basics of how Gatsby works via an interactive demo.

Hosted a group photoshoot, teaching members how to use strobes and gels for portraits.

Taught participants how to photograph food in different kinds of lighting. Discussed commercial practices.

Advisory session on how to start freelancing and becoming good at it.

Night-time photowalk. Casual coaching as required.

How to navigate Illustrator using popular tools, and curve drawing practice. Taught at Artifex recently and Digital Arts Guild previously.

Learn how to plan for a website. Created a workbook for participants. Geared towards non-technical folk.

What constitutes a brand and how to go about building one.

Taught the basics of vector graphics and spent time teaching how to effectively draw curves.

Use WordPress with a site builder to create websites and custom landing pages without coding.

Led a photowalk around a lake, giving feedback and casual tips as needed.

Mentoring-style session on moving forward as a frontend developer.

RAW showcase of my photography.

Logo, business card, website design, WordPress site.

Founded Digital Arts Guild, then spent three years organising and hosting social events, AGMs, and weekly meetups. Led and grew the organising team and a marketing arm.

Head of SA Web Team. Built Student Association site using MS SharePoint.

Style guide, logo, website design.

Advertising media (posters, banners, t-shirt) for a competition.

Style guide, logo, website design, WordPress site.

Social network website navigation and display alternatives. A research dissertation-style project on user interfaces and navigation habits.

Crop data visualisation tool - PHP, HTML5, CSS, OpenStreetMaps.

Designed and developed website for Financial Youth Intelligence conference. Shot secondary video footage.

Blog: ‘Asia’s Youngest Wealth Coach'. Malware removal and aesthetic redesign.

Exploring a live setup for green screen work.

Introduction to HDR photography and follow-up workshop; practice taking photographs at different exposures and then combining them. Two sessions.

Beginner-friendly session on landscape photography. Practice-led.

Led a general session on editing photographs in Lightroom. Provided feedback as required.

The foundations of poster design, including layouts, ink, vector vs raster file types, palettes, and typography. Tips on how to make posters quickly for events.

The basics of handling the timeline and other basics tools in Premiere Pro

Creating special effects with AfterEffects. Followed a few tutorials based on participant feedback.

Co-hosted a workshop on learning to draw anime and manga characters

An introduction to 3D modelling using Blender. Making shapes, joining them, textures, lighting, and rendering.

Make fractal art with Chaotica. Active workshop.

JavaScript (ES5) beyond the basics; array methods and other features.

The basics of moving typography inside AfterEffects. Active workshop.

Get started using Maya for 3D modelling.

How to light a scene to look natural for photos and video scenes.

Practice-led session on taking photography at night on the university campus.

How to use 3D tools inside Photoshop for effects, particularly for text.

Basics to retouching photos in first workshop followed by more advanced photo retouching techniques in the second.

An intro to using PHP covering the basics of learning the programming language for the first time.

How to take portraits with a camera, including a practice session.

A demo covering the differences between the three programs, best practices in each, and how to use them to complement one another.

The basics of using Lightroom, navigating around the UI, common features, best practices, and top tips.

An experimental session in flicking through all of the camera modes on the DLSR dial as I demonstrate their uses.

A session on everything photography-related that can be done with a smartphone, including using lens attachments for better quality photos.

An introduction on how HTML and CSS work within WordPress, and how to create templates.

Introduction to HTML5 and CSS3 geared towards beginners. Included major updates from HTML4.

Organised a sketching session with a guest artist on drawing people followed by a practice session.

Taught the basics of using speed and motion in video effects software. Included basic animation principles. Tailored to absolute newbies.

Built WordPress website for Wealth Insider Group financial initiatives.

Programme and promotional poster for national play.

Infographic about social media.

Wireframe, textures, shaders, lights, rotate, zoom, pan - OpenGL.

Taught how to create title screens in AE from scratch and using existing templates. Included an intro to plugins.

Organised a group exploratory session on the basics of digital painting.

A group learning activity following a tutorial to create typography that looks like ice.

Insurance brokering database. Generates customised reports.