Deliberate designer & empirical philosopher of playful & engaging things. Professor, Dyson School of Design Engineering, Imperial College. Editor-in-Chief, @acmgames@bsky.social. https://codingconduct.cchttps://bsky.app/profile/codingconduct.cchttps://bsky.app/profile/codingconduct.cc/post/3milvhw2a6k2nI thought I was „good at travelling.“ Now with kid and older parents, I realise I was just playing on Easy.03 Apr 2026 14:08 +0000at://did:plc:qu7w6qdowfsmidzn2ppgsd7r/app.bsky.feed.post/3milvhw2a6k2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/codingconduct.cc/post/3mi2luodrds24As an #HE educator, if you wonder, “when will COVID start to end?”, it is 2038: that’s when the first cohort enters uni whose development was not impacted by locked down nurseries, schools, and unis. #UKHE27 Mar 2026 17:01 +0000at://did:plc:qu7w6qdowfsmidzn2ppgsd7r/app.bsky.feed.post/3mi2luodrds24https://bsky.app/profile/codingconduct.cc/post/3mgwydn2pqs2iHigh-tech anti-modernism: When the people who make and sell high-tech embrace anti-modernist postures – beard, bible, biceps. (Out of ... masculine self-loathing?)13 Mar 2026 13:09 +0000at://did:plc:qu7w6qdowfsmidzn2ppgsd7r/app.bsky.feed.post/3mgwydn2pqs2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/codingconduct.cc/post/3mgclzwxd622kEventbrite has turned the simple 3 minute act of filling a web form into a 30 minute rage-quit session of having to wait for and undo useless AI-pregen "work saving magic" to then struggle and fail to get "responsive" JavaScript from hell to register and save an image and text description.05 Mar 2026 10:35 +0000at://did:plc:qu7w6qdowfsmidzn2ppgsd7r/app.bsky.feed.post/3mgclzwxd622khttps://bsky.app/profile/codingconduct.cc/post/3mfqxh2bnhc2nUnsolicited PI advice: never put a student on the critical path of any software development project that others will rely on.* *Unless they were a software developer in their previous career.26 Feb 2026 10:12 +0000at://did:plc:qu7w6qdowfsmidzn2ppgsd7r/app.bsky.feed.post/3mfqxh2bnhc2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/codingconduct.cc/post/3mfhbqyqzvs23@guyintheblackhat.bsky.social say, to brush up on my knowledge about the (women‘s) parlour game etc prehistory of TTRPGs, what should I read? Quick public access resources preferred22 Feb 2026 13:49 +0000at://did:plc:qu7w6qdowfsmidzn2ppgsd7r/app.bsky.feed.post/3mfhbqyqzvs23https://bsky.app/profile/codingconduct.cc/post/3mfccm3cjis2pFancy diving into the cultural impact of pen-and-paper RPGs? Then join James Bennison, @adders.blog, Esther MacCallum-Stewart and myself for a chat in Brighton's Wagner Hall on April 21. Details 👇 https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-dice-that-changed-the-world-tickets-198295575704920 Feb 2026 14:21 +0000at://did:plc:qu7w6qdowfsmidzn2ppgsd7r/app.bsky.feed.post/3mfccm3cjis2phttps://bsky.app/profile/codingconduct.cc/post/3mej5hpi3722l🎓 PhD Studentship: 3.5years, fully funded: Come build engaging multi-platform data collection tools for digital wellbeing interventions with me, @nballou.bsky.social, @martidisi.bsky.social at Imperial College. Application deadline Feb 26, full details here: https://bit.ly/phd-digital-wellbeing-multi-platform-data10 Feb 2026 14:13 +0000at://did:plc:qu7w6qdowfsmidzn2ppgsd7r/app.bsky.feed.post/3mej5hpi3722lhttps://bsky.app/profile/codingconduct.cc/post/3mf3mqalgfc2x3/3 rejected research bids in the last weeks, aka there goes last year’s summer. Not bitter, just reflecting on the reviews: the funding system seems to have quite the limited appetite for uncertainty from novelty and ambition — or I have too large an appetite for them.17 Feb 2026 22:34 +0000at://did:plc:qu7w6qdowfsmidzn2ppgsd7r/app.bsky.feed.post/3mf3mqalgfc2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/codingconduct.cc/post/3mez4z4eh3k2oWe create emotional worlds for children we seem to universally value and embrace. When and why do we decide these are not worlds worth aspiring to and realising in our adult lives? [contains quote post or other embedded content]16 Feb 2026 22:47 +0000at://did:plc:qu7w6qdowfsmidzn2ppgsd7r/app.bsky.feed.post/3mez4z4eh3k2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/codingconduct.cc/post/3mej5hpi3722l🎓 PhD Studentship: 3.5years, fully funded: Come build engaging multi-platform data collection tools for digital wellbeing interventions with me, @nballou.bsky.social, @martidisi.bsky.social at Imperial College. Application deadline Feb 26, full details here: https://bit.ly/phd-digital-wellbeing-multi-platform-data10 Feb 2026 14:13 +0000at://did:plc:qu7w6qdowfsmidzn2ppgsd7r/app.bsky.feed.post/3mej5hpi3722lhttps://bsky.app/profile/codingconduct.cc/post/3mcfc43plm22tJust a big THANK YOU 🙏 to @cfiesler.bsky.social for writing up how to deal with fair use images in ACM articles. As an @acm.org EiC, all I can say this is gold & should be embedded in standard instructions and forms. https://caseyfiesler.com/2016/10/20/fair-use-and-the-acm-copyright-licensing-agreement/14 Jan 2026 14:35 +0000at://did:plc:qu7w6qdowfsmidzn2ppgsd7r/app.bsky.feed.post/3mcfc43plm22thttps://bsky.app/profile/codingconduct.cc/post/3mbqoyfctf22bThere is no way to safety-engineer LLMs (especially in “agentic” form) in the same way that you cannot safety-engineer general purpose computing. You intentionally afford practically infinite use cases. If anything, they are less safe because they lower the expertise barrier to doing stupid shit.06 Jan 2026 09:59 +0000at://did:plc:qu7w6qdowfsmidzn2ppgsd7r/app.bsky.feed.post/3mbqoyfctf22bhttps://bsky.app/profile/codingconduct.cc/post/3mboix3joyc2lListened to @pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy's great 39C3 keynote "The Post-American Internet." He remains one of the true hopepunks: modelling to me how finding concrete opportunities for action and charging us with hope is probably the most effective activism today. https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/01/39c3/#the-new-coalition05 Jan 2026 13:06 +0000at://did:plc:qu7w6qdowfsmidzn2ppgsd7r/app.bsky.feed.post/3mboix3joyc2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/codingconduct.cc/post/3mboi2sdizc2l"AI should augment not replace humans" has become a meaningless trope that is and can be happily slapped onto any AI replacing/degrading human work initiative. So what is an effective retort and/or move to a more productive stance? Just, "Can you specify what that looks like in this context"?05 Jan 2026 12:50 +0000at://did:plc:qu7w6qdowfsmidzn2ppgsd7r/app.bsky.feed.post/3mboi2sdizc2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/codingconduct.cc/post/3mbk45easa22cSpring cleaning of a former business travelling, long time Mac user: when you find yourself in possession of no less than nine now obsolete Mini-DVI to VGA/DVI dongles …03 Jan 2026 19:06 +0000at://did:plc:qu7w6qdowfsmidzn2ppgsd7r/app.bsky.feed.post/3mbk45easa22chttps://bsky.app/profile/codingconduct.cc/post/3mbhb4pknqc2hA lovely gentle and accessible dialogue on the limits of computationalism. [contains quote post or other embedded content]02 Jan 2026 15:57 +0000at://did:plc:qu7w6qdowfsmidzn2ppgsd7r/app.bsky.feed.post/3mbhb4pknqc2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/codingconduct.cc/post/3m7iqvfups22uThis kind of “automating the science pipeline” discourse, apocalyptic or utopian, takes as given the upside promise of foundation models, and doesn’t grant symmetry to the downside: if AI can exponentially automate science, it can also exponentially automate undetectable scientific fraud. [contains quote post or other embedded content]08 Dec 2025 19:22 +0000at://did:plc:qu7w6qdowfsmidzn2ppgsd7r/app.bsky.feed.post/3m7iqvfups22u