Welcome
I am a human. I wrote music and prose. I write software.
The small internet
… slightly larger Internet
… the WEB
Recent Posts
- Pandoc, Pagefind and Make, 2022-11-28
- Initial Impressions of Pagefind, 2022-11-21
- Browser based site search, 2022-11-18
- Revealing the Pandoc AST, 2022-11-17
- Twitter’s pending implosion, 2022-11-11
- Compiling Pandoc from source, 2022-11-07
- Installing Cargo/Rust on Raspberry Pi 400, 2022-11-01
- feeds, formats and plain text, 2022-11-01
- 7:30 AM, Oberon Language: A minimum SYSTEM module, 2022-10-18
- Wish list for Oberon in 2023, 2022-10-16
- 7:30 AM, Gopher: Setup, 2022-10-10
- Getting things setup, 2022-10-09
- Thinking about Gopher, 2022-09-28
- Rust development notes, 2022-09-27
- 7:30 AM, Golang: pttk, 2022-09-26
- 12:30 PM, SQL: Postgres, 2022-09-19
- PostgreSQL dump and restore, 2022-09-19
- Ordering front matter, 2022-08-30
- 10:30 AM, SQL: Postgres, 2022-08-26
- Postgres 14 on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, 2022-08-26
- 12:00 PM, SQL: Postgres, 2022-08-24
- A Quick into to PL/pgSQL, 2022-08-24
- 11:30 AM, SQL: Postgres, 2022-08-22
- Rosette Notes: Postgres and MySQL, 2022-08-19
- PTTK and STN, 2022-08-15
- 5:45 PM, Golang: ptdk, stngo, 2022-08-15
- 5:00 PM, Golang: pdtk, stngo, 2022-08-14
- 4:30 PM, Golang: stngo, 2022-08-12
- Turbo Oberon, the dream, 2022-07-30
- Artemis Project Status, 2022, 2022-07-27
- Installing Golang from source on RPi-OS for arm64, 2022-02-18
Series
Series start as blog posts but continue as collections that explore an idea, topic or theme.
- Mostly Oberon, Oberon-07 on POSIX systems
- Software Tools, Oberon-07 implementations of classic command line programs
- Pandoc Techniques, using Pandoc as your site generator
- Exploring FreeDOS, installation, exploration and development
- SQL reflections, notes regarding SQL in the context of MySQL 8, SQLite 3 and Postgres 14
Projects
- Artemis - Oberon-07 module collection for OBNC, Oxford and Ofront+ compilers.
- pttk, a tool kit for Pandoc generated websites. It includes a proof-of-concept Pandoc Pre-processor called “prep”. “prep” will take a JSON document, transform it into to YAML front matter suitable for processing with Pandoc. It also includes “blogit” a blog site generator and manager used to prepare this website’s blog
- obc-3-libext - exploring compatibility in Karl Landström’s Extension Library modules with Mike Spivey’s Oxford Oberon Compiler
Command line tools
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
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