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
2020
- 12-24, RetroFlag GPi Case Setup
- 11-27, Dates & Clock
- 11-11, Pandoc & Metadata
- 11-09, Pandoc Partials
- 10-31, Software Tools, Filters
- 10-19, Assembling Pages
- 10-03, Oberon to Markdown
- 09-29, Software Tools, Getting Started
- 08-15, Portable Oberon 7
- 07-08, Words Matter
- 07-07, Procedures in records
- 06-20, Procedures as parameters
- 05-25, Dynamic types
- 05-09, Oberon-7 and the file system
- 05-06, Compiling OBNC on macOS
- 05-01, Combining Oberon-7 and C with OBNC
- 04-19, Oberon Loops and Conditions
- 04-18, Oberon Basic Types
- 04-12, Oberon Modules and Procedures
- 04-11, Mostly Oberon
2019
2018
- 07-22, Review: Software Tools in Pascal
- 03-11, Accessing Go from Julia
- 02-24, Go based Python modules
- 02-19, Go, Bleve and Library oriented software
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
Series
Series start as blog posts but continue as collections that explore an idea, topic or theme.
- Mostly Oberon, Oberon-7 on POSIX systems
- Software Tools, Oberon-7 implementations of classic commandline programs
- Pandoc Techniques, using Pandoc as your site generator
Presentations
- Building software at the edges of heterogeneous repositories, at Montana State University for Open Repositories 2018, 2018-06-06
- 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
Screen Play and writing tools
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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
- mkpage - a deconstructed content system for static content publishing
- shorthand - a text label expander with markdown support
- stngo - Standard Timesheet Notation processor for my personal project time logs
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
Useful for XML content
- opml - An OPML package that features a OPML sort, cat and to json utility