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Daniel McQuillen @dmcq.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Mildly poetic juxtaposition on Reddit today...

Daniel McQuillen @dmcq.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

A new report on "Planetary Habitability, Global Convergence and Structural Transformation" by The World Prosperity Lab (includes Thomas Piketty of "Capital in the Twenty-First Century" fame). wid.world/document/pro...

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Daniel McQuillen @dmcq.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

New paper on compressed earth blocks for building by Valenzuela, Marian; Ciudad, Gustavo; Cárdenas, Juan Pablo et al. orbi.uliege.be/handle/2268/...

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Daniel McQuillen @dmcq.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Released my Validibot project today on GitHub. Still very much a work in progress but trying from this point to work out in the open. If you’re interested in data validation I’d love to hear what you think… github.com/danielmcquil...

Illustration of Validibot robot using magnifying glass to look at documents.

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Daniel McQuillen @dmcq.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

Learning about the latest positive thinking from the Sustainability Summit / Future of Building Materials Summit at the Melbourne Build Expo today.

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Daniel McQuillen @dmcq.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

@michaelburchert.bsky.social Saw this on LinkedIn today and thought you might find interesting given your work ... Submission site: www.editorialmanager.com/enb/default2...

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Daniel McQuillen @dmcq.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

I read recently that green walls are too costly to install and too hard to maintain. But I like them and hope architects keep trying. Saw this one in Melbourne today and it looks reasonably nice doesn’t it? It’s like a small postcard from a forest reminding you to come back and visit sometime.

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Daniel McQuillen @dmcq.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

Good article on AI coding by Chris Loy: chrisloy.dev/post/2025/09.... I want to believe his Quality vs. Velocity diagram (shown below) but I'm guessing many would say the last part of that blue line is non-linear and headed much higher...

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Daniel McQuillen @dmcq.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

An article in latest ASHRAE journal article warns Australia is in danger of recreating issues with roof insulation that the US and Canada suffered years ago: www.nxtbook.com/nxtbooks/ash...

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Daniel McQuillen @dmcq.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

I feel like it's only a matter of time before marketing emails (like this one I received today) are saying "rather than" instead of "not just".

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Daniel McQuillen @dmcq.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

That one just made my morning. Now back to the grim parade of bad news.

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Daniel McQuillen @dmcq.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Similar story here in AU and our plans for net-zero. We need more trained electricians: www.energycouncil.com.au/analysis/aus...

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Daniel McQuillen @dmcq.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Researcher publishes paper on green building in Nigeria: biggest financial risk is lack of specialised training. www.researchgate.net/publication/...

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Daniel McQuillen @dmcq.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Is your app really IO bound? "CPU starvation looks like IO to most eyes" For Rails devs but I'm guessing same thoughts are apply to Django dev: byroot.github.io/ruby/perform...

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Daniel McQuillen @dmcq.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Picture Swing Bridge. Tahune Forest Reserve in Tassie, 2017, before the fire.

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Daniel McQuillen @dmcq.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Seems grading is always an issue when using Jupyter notebooks in e-Learning. Such is the case here:

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Daniel McQuillen @dmcq.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

I feel like the window seating of the average plant-lover's bungalow is a better effort at a "connection" with the natural world. Lost of living things, needing attention, playing a part in a localized biome, faint echos of earlier days when we weren't separated from outside by glass and HVAC.

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Daniel McQuillen @dmcq.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Still a bit puzzled by what "biophilic design" means in a building. The latest in the inbox today features a really beautiful public building in Oregon (no mention of energy performance but let's assume it's good)....but where are manifestations of this design intent? Honest question.

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Daniel McQuillen @dmcq.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

In reading that got directed to artwork by Wojtek Kapustra www.artstation.com/kapucha76 ... his illos remind me of a book I had as kid in the 70s with all these atmospheric paintings of spaceships. Man I wish I could remember the title and get it again.

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Daniel McQuillen @dmcq.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Have you attempted to use #Jupyter notebooks your STEM e-Learning courses? #JupyterHub is the conventional way to go, but you can also use a serverless approach through services like modal.com ... here are my developing thoughts. www.mcquilleninteractive.com/blog/enablin...

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Daniel McQuillen @dmcq.bsky.social · 29/10/2024

A photo from a promo email from Architectural Record on "Biophilic Art in Interior Design." Exquisite placement of the only living thing in the photo.

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Daniel McQuillen @dmcq.bsky.social · 11/09/2024

I asked an AI service to come up with a logo for KinesinLMS, (the open-source LMS I created for SCL). My prompt: "Abstract logo for a software application named KinesinLMS. Kinesin is a molecular protein, which looks a bit like it has legs." NAILED IT. This stuff is amazing.

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