So you want to query Australian electricity data?
A guide to AEMO's MMS dataset
Matthew Davis
A collection of projects, stories and thoughts about technology and politics
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Speeding up APIs and webscraping with request.Session
One simple trick to make HTTP client code faster and nicer
Staves
A Typst package for drawing musical scales
Don't Forget AEMO's 'Diagonal' Dispatch Targets
The economic significance of AEMO's requirement to take the entire period to reach the target
Why Colocating solar and batteries does not increase electricity spot market revenue
How putting the two together does not increase wholesale revenue
Missing Markets in the Electricity Industry
My master's thesis about capacity markets, ancillary services and capture price divergence
The Optimal Electricity Retail Customer Mix
How choosing a mix of low-risk and high-risk electricity customers is similar to the capital asset pricing model
Why solar panels should not be oriented to maximize energy volume
How tilting further west and more vertically maximizes value
Google Keep Image Cache Extension
A Firefox browser extension to speed up Google Keep
UT1 TSE Calendar Sync and Filter
A tool to synchronise personalised Toulouse School of Economics (or UT1) timetables to your calendar app
Achievements of the Coalition Government
A comprehensive list of (almost) everything the Australian Coalition government did
Lambda Multiprocessing
A python library I wrote for multiprocessing in AWS Lambda
AWS Step Function Path Tool
Tool for developing and understanding path manipulations in AWS Step Functions
Why Paper Voting Is Still Superior
How digital security is good enough for banking but not for elections
Why you should think twice before riding a Lime e-bike
You really should read those terms and conditions
4D graphs
How to visualize complex-to-complex functions
Web analytics are leaking into meatspace
A Stallman-esque short story about the future of offline tracking
Machine Learning Unicycling
Teaching a computer to ride a simulated unicycle
Python Reddit Bot
How I wrote a Reddit bot in python to reply to long posts
Do you need a blockchain?
An interactive flowchart to help cut through the hype
How Flag Emojis Get Decided
Why adding an Indigenous flag is technologically non-trivial
Inverter Inertia Emulation
My bachelor's thesis about emulating inertia with battery inverters
Arduino Monitor Rotator
Build an Automatic Computer Display Rotator With an Arduino