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Matthew Davis

Engineer | Developer | Tinkerer

A collection of projects, stories and thoughts about technology and politics

People signing contract

Do you need a blockchain?

An interactive flowchart to help cut through the hype
Poster on pole proclaiming 'big data is watching you'

Web analytics are leaking into meatspace

A Stallman-esque short story about the future of offline tracking
A Lime e-bike

Why you should think twice before riding a Lime e-bike

You really should read those terms and conditions
Morrison, Turnbull and Dutton

Achievements of the Coalition Government

A comprehensive list of (almost) everything the Australian Coalition government did
Ballot paper inserted into ballot box

Why Paper Voting Is Still Superior

How digital security is good enough for banking but not for elections
Animated Unicycle

Machine Learning Unicycling

Teaching a computer to ride a simulated unicycle
Graph of an example step function

AWS Step Function Path Tool

Tool for developing and understanding path manipulations in AWS Step Functions
Arduino with circuitboard shield

Arduino Monitor Rotator

Build an Automatic Computer Display Rotator With an Arduino
Python Code

Python Reddit Bot

How I wrote a Reddit bot in python to reply to long posts
Graph of hyperbolic cosine

4D graphs

How to visualize complex-to-complex functions
The emoji menu on a phone keyboard

How Flag Emojis Get Decided

Why adding an Indigenous flag is technologically non-trivial
Servers

Lambda Multiprocessing

A python library I wrote for multiprocessing in AWS Lambda
Graph of power and frequency over time

Inverter Inertia Emulation

My bachelor's thesis about emulating inertia with battery inverters
Screenshot of timetable web page

UT1 TSE Calendar Sync and Filter

A tool to synchronise personalised Toulouse School of Economics (or UT1) timetables to your calendar app