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,.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)](https://cameras.alertcalifornia.org/?pos=34.3502_-118.4196_10&id=Axis-OatNorth1#?pos=34.3502_-118.4196_10, Looking North East)
- [Oak Mountain (South 1)](https://cameras.alertcalifornia.org/?pos=34.3502_-118.4196_10&id=Axis-OatSouth1#?pos=34.3502_-118.4196_10, Looking along the ridge line)