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

2016

• 09/20, Android Termux Dev environment
• 08/16, From Markdown and Bash to mkpage
• 08/15, Setting up Go under Bash for Windows 10
• 07/04, How To Make A PiTop More Raspbian
• 05/30, amp 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 Bash scripting

shelltools - simple utilities for command line and shell scripting

• 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)

datatools - a small set of tools to facilitate working with CSV, JSON and Excel Workbook data in Bash scripts

• csvcols - filter or render CSV data rows
• csvjoin - join two CSV tables on a designated column value
• csv2xlsx - a tool to take a CSV file and add it as a sheet to a Excel Workbook file.
• csv2mdtable - render a CSV table as a Github Flavored Markdown table
• jsoncols - using dot path notation extract JSON object elements into columns
• 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

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 - A naive OPML parse package that features a OPML sort utility
• shorthand - a text label expander with markdown processor support
• stngo - Standard Timesheet Notation processor for my personal project time logs