Welcome
I am a human. I wrote music and prose. I write software.
The smaller and quieter internet
… slightly larger, at times noisy, Internet
- Robert’s butterfly, is it a Blue Morpho?
- Robert’s current Pachyderm, not quite small interenet, pachyderms are large
- Robert’s Antenna, finding signal in the noise
Then there’s the WEB …
Recent Posts
- Getting Started with Miranda, 2024-04-25
- A Text Oriented Web, 2024-02-25
- Two missing features from HTML5, an enhanced form.enctype and a list input type, 2024-02-23
- Installing pgloader from source, 2024-02-01
- vis for vi and fun, 2024-01-31
- Updated recipe, compiling PostgREST 12.0.2 (M1), 2024-01-04
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 PostgreSQL >= 14
- A Personal Search Engine, notes regarding my exploration of the viability of a personal search engine
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,.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
Reading tools
- skimmer - A extremely minimal feed reader
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