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

• Review: Software Tools in Pascal, 2018-07-22
• Accessing Go from Julia, 2018-03-11
• Go based Python modules, 2018-02-24
• Go, Bleve and Library oriented software, 2018-02-19

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

• 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

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

• String oriented
  • string - basic string operations, length, pos, change cases, join, slice and split, etc.
• Data oriented
  • csv2json - converts rows CSV into JSON structures
  • csv2mdtable - render a CSV table as a Github Flavored Markdown table
  • csv2xlsx - a tool to take a CSV file and add it as a sheet to a Excel Workbook file.
  • csvcols - filter or render CSV data rows
  • csvfind - search CSV rows
  • csvjoin - join two CSV tables on a designated column value
  • jsoncols - using dot path notation extract JSON object elements into columns
  • jsonjoin - combine JSON objects by branching as well as attribute copying
  • jsonmunge - process JSON objects through filters and templates
  • jsonrange - iterate of a JSON object or array
  • xlsx2json - convert an Excel Workbook sheet into a JSON document
  • xlsx2csv - convert an Excel Workbook sheet into into a JSON document
• Shell scripting oriented
  • findfile - find files based on prefix, suffix on name contents
  • finddir - find directories based on prefix, suffix or name content
  • mergepath - merge a path, without duplicates into a PATH list
  • range - emit a range of integers
  • reldate - calculate a relative date in YYYY-MM-DD format
  • timefmt - format time output per Go’s time package time notation
  • urlparse - extract URL parts (e.g. protocol, hostname, path)

Content formatting tools

• mkpage - a deconstructed content system for static content publishing
  • mkpage - a light weight markdown and template processor for multiple data sources and types
  • mkslides - a markdown to HTML page presentation renderer
  • mkrss - a RSS generator for Markdown content
  • sitemapper - a sitemap.xml generator
  • reldocpath - calculate relative file paths
  • titleline - extract the first title from a Markdown file
  • byline - extract a byline from an article written in Markdown
  • urlencode and urldecode - url encode/decode from the command line
  • ws - A nimble static content webserver
    • doesn’t serve dot files (e.g. .htaccess) or dot directories (e.g. .git)
    • fast startup
    • logs to console so you can watch requests and responses
• opml - An OPML package that features a OPML sort, cat and to json utility
• shorthand - a text label expander with markdown support
• stngo - Standard Timesheet Notation processor for my personal project time logs