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
Then there’s this blog …
Recent Posts
- 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
Reading tools
- skimmer - A extremely minimal feed to to list log reader website
Additional text rendering/formatting tools
- 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