Who am I?
I am a human. I write software. Once upon a time I wrote music and prose. I am interested in the intersection of technology and the humanities.
Recent posts
- Procedures as parameters, 2020-06-20
- Dynamic types, 2020-05-25
- Oberon-7 and the file system, 2020-05-09
- Compiling OBNC on macOS, 2020-05-06
- Combining Oberon-7 and C with OBNC, 2020-05-01
- Oberon Loops and Conditions, 2020-04-19
- Oberon Basic Types, 2020-04-18
- Oberon Modules and Procedures, 2020-04-12
- Mostly Oberon, 2020-04-11
2019
2018
- 07-22, Review: Software Tools in Pascal
- 03-11, Accessing Go from Julia
- 02-24, Go based Python modules
- 02-19, Go, Bleve and Library oriented software
2017
- 12-18, Raspbian Stretch on DELL E4310 Laptop
- 12-10, Harvesting my Gists from GitHub
- 10-20, NodeJS, NPM, Electron
- 06-16, Cross compiling Go 1.8.3 for Pine64 Pinebook
2016
- 09-20, Android, Termux and Dev Environment
- 08-16, From Markdown and Bash to mkpage
- 08-15, Exploring Bash for Windows 10 Pro
- 07-04, How to make a Pi-Top more Raspbian
- 05-30, Instant Articles, Accelerated Mobile Pages, Twitter Cards and Open Graph
- 05-28, OPML to Markdown and back
Presentations
- Building software at the edges of heterogeneous repositories, at Montana State University for Open Repositories 2018, 2018-06-06
- Command Line for Librarians, co-presentation with Heather Wilson for MMWCon 2016 at UCLA, 2016-09-15
- Introducing the ArchivesSpace REST API using Python 3, presentation for the ArchivesSpace Member Forum 2016, 2016-08-02
- Bash, curl and jq: Accessing ORCID public API, presentation for Code4Lib SoCal Summer 2016 meetup, 2016-06-20
- Unified Search Box presentation for Code4Lib SoCal meetup at Caltech, 2015-12-15
Command line tools
Screen Play and writing tools
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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
Additional text rendering/formatting tools
- mkpage - a deconstructed content system for static content publishing
- shorthand - a text label expander with markdown support
- stngo - Standard Timesheet Notation processor for my personal project time logs
Useful for managing JSON documents
dataset - a tool for manage JSON objects, their attachments as well as data grids and frames
Useful for Posix/Bash scripting
datatools - a small set of tools to facilitate working with CSV, JSON and Excel Workbook data in Bash scripts
Useful for XML content
- opml - An OPML package that features a OPML sort, cat and to json utility
North L. A. County