Welcome

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

Flitting about the Internet

• Robert’s butterfly, is it a Blue Morpho?
• Robert’s Antenna, finding signal in the noise
• Left Coast RISC OS Computer Club

Then there’s this blog …

Recent Posts

• Using text fragments, 2025-12-03
• Upgrade my Raspberry Pi 500+ to Trixie, 2025-11-28
• Text fragment links as social expression, 2025-11-17
• URLS for text fragments, 2025-11-13
• Half-life of Frameworks, 2025-11-07
• Is Social Media a Misnomer, 2025-11-02
• Simple websites using Markdown, 2025-10-14
• Computer related terminology that bugs me, 2025-10-01
• Getting started with Go, 2025-09-22
• RSS 23 years on, 2025-09-11
• Two recent articles on working with Large Language Models, 2025-09-10
• Build a Blog with Antenna, 2025-09-05
• Building Your Own Antenna, 2025-08-31
• Generating RSS with FlatLake, 2025-08-10
• Opensearch Description Document needs love, 2025-08-09
• Build a CommonMark Processor, 2025-07-26
• Signed Binaries and Business Models, 2025-07-24
• Simplifying BlogIt, 2025-07-21
• Build a Static Web Server with Deno, 2025-06-30
• Rethinking REST, 2025-06-07
• PowerShell and Edit for macOS, Linux and Windows, 2025-06-05
• A quick note on types in Deno+TypeScript, 2025-05-25
• New Life for Fielded Search, 2025-04-10
• LLM first impressions a few weeks in, 2025-03-30
• Building Web Components using Large Language Models, 2025-03-13
• Setting up my Raspberry Pi 500, a Portable Workstation, 2025-02-14
• Book review, “Man and the Computer”, 2025-02-10
• Working with Structured Data in Deno and TypeScript, 2025-02-03
• Moving beyond git template repositories with CodeMeta, 2025-01-31
• Deno 2.1.7, Project Idioms, 2025-01-29
• Deno 2.1.7, Points of Friction, 2025-01-26

Series start as blog posts but continue as collections that explore an idea, topic or theme.

The toolbox

Screen Play and writing tools

• scripttool - a tool for working with screenplay formats such as Final Draft, FadeIn, Fountain and Open Screenplay Format (e.g. .fdx, .osf, .fadein and .fountain)
• fountain - A Go package for working with Fountain markup. Includes three example programs fountainfmt which is a pretty printer for fountain documents, fountain2json which converts fountain files to JSON and fountain2html an experimental HTML renderer for fountain documents
• fdx - A Go package for working with Final Draft XML files (.fdx)
• osf - A Go package for working with Open Screen Play formatted files

Reading tools

• Antenna App - Build news sites, microblogs, blogs, and linkblogs with Markdown
• skimmer - A extremely minimal feed reader and markdown reading list generator

Additional text rendering/formatting tools

• commonMarkDoc - a TypeScript module for working with CommonMark documents
• BlogIt - this will be the successor “blogit” as I work to replace pttk.
• pttk - a deconstructed content manage system for managing this site
• shorthand - a text label expander with markdown support
• stngo - Standard Timesheet Notation processor for my personal project time logs
• opml - A minimal OPML package that features a OPML sort, cat and to json utility

North L.A. County

• Cal Fire Incident Map
  • Cal Fire on BSky
• Los Angeles County
  • LA County Emergency website
  • Los Angeles Board of Supervisors, BSky
• City of Santa Clarita
  • City of Santa Clarita Emergency website
• SoCal Earthquake Center
• California Alert Cameras (run by U.C. San Diego)
  • South Mountain Looking, Ventura County (looking East towards Santa Clarita Valley)
  • LACFD Camp Nine (Loop 1) (Bear Mountain Divide area, Looking North)
  • LACFD Camp Nine (Loop 2) (Bear Mountain Divide area, Looking North)
  • Oak Mountain (North 1)
  • Oak Mountain (South 1)