Stephen Tierney

2/12/2025

Alison Wong and I were awarded both the Innovation Award and Allan Christie Innovation Award at ASCILITE 2025 for our Karel initiative.

1/12/2025

This paper presented at ASCILITE 2025 discusses how our Karel initiative is empowering women in programming.

Forthcoming

I developed a selection procedure for image formation and solver hyperparameters for image restoration tasks, which removes the need for hand tuning. I provide a proof that the estimator is unbiased and derive estimator variance, confidence bounds and provide guidance on practical usage.

12/9/2025

I presented at the Data and AI track of PyCon AU 2025 about the potential problems of NaviLens.
Video here.

31/08/2025

I assembled a docker container or wyoming and whisper on intel GPUs. It is built on the intel/oneapi-basekit container.

18/06/2025

I became a maintainer of the rathole project, which is a secure, stable and high-performance reverse proxy for NAT traversal, written in Rust.

18/04/2025

I released caddy-hostnames, which automatically publishes .local hostnames from Docker containers via mDNS using Caddy-Docker-Proxy.

24/12/2024

This project provides a reference implementation of NaviLens and ddTag for educational or personal use.

22/11/2024

Alison Wong and I presented at the Education track of PyCon AU 2024 about our use of Karel to increase in confidence, interest and ultimately ability in programming.
Video here.

6/11/2024

Alison Wong and I were awarded the University of Sydney Business School (USBS) Wayne Lonergan Award, which is the most competitive teaching award in the school and is accompanied with a $10,000 AUD prize. We were awarded for leading significant initiatives in modernising programming education, which has impacted over 10,000 enrolments in courses we have coordinated and over 7,000 enrolments in other courses.