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
- Reflection on a few decades, 2026-01-01
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,.fadeinand.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
Web Reading and Writing 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
L.A. County
- Cal Fire Incident Map
- Los Angeles County
- City of Santa Clarita
- 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) (Looking North East)
- Oak Mountain (South 1) (Looking along the ridge line)