Welcome

I am a human. I wrote music and prose. I write software.

I work as a “Digital Services Programmer” (aka. software engineer, software developer, programmer) for the California Institute of Technology Library. In my career I have focused on building web based systems for academic institutions (previously USC, now Caltech). I bring to the table both B.S. in Computer Science as well as an M.A. in the Humanities. I enjoy diving deeply into a problem and working through solutions that have measurable results.

Presentations

• September 15, 2016, Command Line for Librarians, co-presentation with Heather Wilson for MMWCon 2016 at UCLA
• Aug 2, 2016, Introducing the ArchivesSpace REST API using Python 3, presentation for the ArchivesSpace Member Forum 2016
• June 20, 2016, Bash, curl and jq: Accessing ORCID public API, presentation for Code4Lib SoCal Summer 2016 meetup
• December 15, 2015, Unified Search Box presentation for Code4Lib SoCal meetup at Caltech

Interests/Projects

• Oberon programming language and system
• Raspberry Pi as a prototyping platform for projects
  • Go, Lisp, Oberon, Standard ML and bare metal programming
• Golang based Unix utilities
  • shorthand - a simple label expander for text substitutions (i.e. expand abbreviations, include the contents of another text file)
  • stngo a Golang implementation of Simple Timesheet Notation and related command line utilities
    • stnparse, stnfilter and stnreport - the utility pipeline that parses, filters and creates column oriented reports based on a simple timesheet notation file
• Recent experiments and explorations

Past interests/projects

• dataset - a JSON document management tool
• datatools - a set of command line programs for use with Bash
• mkpage - a deconstructed content system and set of command line tools
• bibtex - A BibTeX go package and bibfilter tool
• 3D design experiments
• Paperlaptop - a DIY cardboard and PLA laptop, source files in STL and OpenScad
• CAIT – Caltech Archives Integration Tools
• Web Components
  • r-tags - my x-tags experiment with Markdown and website wire framing
  • X-Tags - Mozilla project for evolving web components
  • Brick - A really nice curated set of components from Mozilla
• Firefox OS and extending the web platform to small and embedded devices
• Chrome OS, I was a lucky CR-48 tester, then a Samsung Series 5 regular and a few more Chromebooks later I wound up using a Pixel combined with a Raspberry Pi and really enjoyed it. Then I spilled coffee on it, couldn’t get it repaired and I moved on to focusing on Raspberry Pi computers.
• Node/NPM modules