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
• Left Coast RISC OS Computer Club

Then there's this blog ...

Recent Posts

• Libraries and Archives, a Natural Home for Language Models, 2026-04-25
• Fountain and recording agents, 2026-04-15
• LibreOffice Writer and Markdown, 2026-03-27
• Markdown & Frontmatter: Taking Text Further, 2026-03-04
• Language Models, Services and the Edge, 2026-03-03
• A Simple Web We Own, 2026-02-21
• Embracing Markdown as Hypertext, 2026-02-19
• The JSON under the hood of RDM, 2026-02-13
• Reflection on a few decades, 2026-01-01

Series start as blog posts but continue as collections that explore an idea, topic or theme.

Library Jargon, a slowly accumulating list of terminilogy I've encountered working for a Research Library

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, .fadein and .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

Web Reading and Writing tools

• Antenna App - Build news sites, microblogs, blogs, and linkblogs with Markdown

Additional text rendering/formatting tools

• commonMarkDoc - a TypeScript module for working with CommonMark documents
• shorthand - a text label expander with markdown support
• stngo - Standard Timesheet Notation processor for my personal project time logs

L.A. County

• Cal Fire Incident Map
  • Cal Fire on BSky
• Los Angeles County
  • LA County Emergency website
  • Los Angeles Board of Supervisors, BSky
• City of Santa Clarita
  • City of Santa Clarita Emergency website
• SoCal Earthquake Center
• California Alert Cameras (run by U.C. San Diego)
  • South Mountain Looking, Ventura County (looking East towards Santa Clarita Valley)
  • LACFD Camp Nine (Loop 1) (Bear Mountain Divide area, Looking North)
  • LACFD Camp Nine (Loop 2) (Bear Mountain Divide area, Looking North)
  • Oak Mountain (North 1) (Looking North East)
  • Oak Mountain (South 1) (Looking along the ridge line)