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Michael Borck

cybersecurity research curtin teaching ai book desktop-app maker presentation web-app cli education operations

University lecturer, maker, and occasional sky-watcher. I build educational tools, run the LocoLab local-LLM research lab, restore vintage 3D printers, and spend too much time staring through telescopes.

🔭 What I Do

  • Teaching — Business programming, Cybersecurity, and AI literacy
  • Consulting — AI literacy, governance & data sovereignty for Australian regulated small businesses
  • Building — Desktop apps and CLI tools for educators
  • Research — Local LLMs on consumer hardware (LocoLab)
  • Making — 3D printer restoration and astronomy at 8020workshop.com

🚀 Start here

I am a... Start with
Educator tools.borck.education, programminglabs.borck.education, teach.borck.education
Student programming.borck.education, hands-on-ai, security.borck.education
Researcher research.borck.dev, locolabo.org, greatsilence.borck.education
Client borck.consulting, teach.borck.education

📍 Now

  • Building LocoLab on consumer hardware
  • Writing The Human Edge
  • Teaching the ISYS unit family

Updated November 2026

📚 Books

Open-access books and textbooks on AI, programming, and security. Browse all at books.borck.education.

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🌐 Around the Web

Start at bigpicture.borck.dev — the map that ties my AI teaching, tools, and research together.

Site What it is
borck.dev Calling card / portfolio landing
resume.borck.dev 11 résumés from one YAML
borck.consulting AI literacy, governance & data-sovereignty consulting
borck.education Hub for my teaching properties
teach.borck.education Workshops, courses & executive education
programming.borck.education Learn to build software in the AI era
programminglabs.borck.education Speak Software: twelve labs where you describe, an agent builds, and specification, verification, decomposition, and taste are the curriculum.
tools.borck.education Free, private AI tools for your classroom
hands-on-ai Your AI learning lab: six small, readable modules for chat, RAG, agents, workflows, loops, and evals.
aitoys.borck.education AI Toys: small pages that break a misconception
security.borck.education Self-contained security labs that run on your laptop
books.borck.education My books & textbooks
greatsilence.borck.education Six frames for thinking about artificial intelligence at civilisational scale, borrowed from the search for aliens
research.borck.dev Links to my research projects
simulations.borck.education Physics & science simulations
8020workshop.com Maker blog & opinions
retroverse.studio Indie game studio
🧪 LocoLabo — local AI on modest hardware

locolabo.org is an independent, self-funded applied AI research lab in Perth, Australia. It studies what local AI can do on secondhand hardware and builds tools that keep student and organisational data on-premises.

The work starts from a constraint: many institutions cannot send student work to cloud AI. LocoLabo builds the alternative, and studies the pedagogical position that follows: Conversation, not Delegation. Small local models are not a compromise for brainstorming, iteration, and critical dialogue. They are the right tool, and they keep the human thinking.

The lab's work spans routed specialist models, VRAM-tier benchmarking, multi-GPU inference, simulated organisations for professional rehearsal, thinking-partner evaluation, and agentic scaffolding for small models.

Read more at locolabo.org

🏷️ How I tag repositories 
flowchart LR
  R[Repository] --> Q1{What is it?}
  Q1 --> F1[web-app]
  Q1 --> F2[desktop-app]
  Q1 --> F3[cli]
  Q1 --> F4[book]
  R --> Q2{What is it about?}
  Q2 --> D1[ai]
  Q2 --> D2[education]
  Q2 --> D3[cybersecurity]
  Q2 --> D4[research]
  Q2 --> D5[operations]
  R --> T[1-2 free tags]
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I use nine standard tags, split into two questions:

Question Tags
What is it? web-app, desktop-app, cli, book
What is it about? ai, education, cybersecurity, research, operations

A repo can answer both. A teaching web app about AI gets web-app, education, and ai. Free tags add the specifics, such as quarto, docker-labs, or interactive-simulation.

📦 Browse by Topic
Topic Repos Description
web-app 128 Websites, static sites & web apps
desktop-app 25 Desktop applications
cli 40 Command-line & developer tools
book 31 Books, textbooks & Quarto projects
ai 109 AI, ML & LLM projects
education 144 Teaching, course & assessment materials
cybersecurity 27 Security labs & forensics
research 31 Research projects & papers
operations 10 Private operating workspaces & indexes
teaching 50 Free tag: course delivery & teaching practice
curtin 20 Free tag: Curtin University materials
presentation 19 Free tag: workshops, seminars & talks
maker 5 Free tag: astronomy, 3D printing & hardware

🤝 Work with me

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    Manages GitHub repositories through CLI commands for categorisation, health checking, topic tagging, and portfolio organisation using LLM-powered automation.

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