Technical Credits
Technical credits
This web site is based on a responsive web design template (adjusts to size differences of computers, tablets, and smartphones) named "Alpha" from HTML5 UP. To handle proper embedding of PDF (Portable Document Format) files, I used the JavaScript PDFObject utility, so that all PDFs are seen in the browser (not downloaded to your device). Site content was created with the Vim editor (color syntax highlighting and much more) and managed with Transmit (file transfer and editing application).There are many images (plus some videos and audio clips) on this site, which required a lot of different tools, including:
- Vuescan (from Hamrick Software) scanning software
- ScanSnap Manager (from Fujitsu, for their ScanSnap document scanners)
- Adobe Photoshop
- Adobe Lightroom Classic
- ImageMagick (command-line tools for image maniplulation)
- Davinci Resolve (from BlackMagicDesign) (non-linear editor for video)
- Handbrake (for compressing video)
- MacWhisper (for transcribing audio and video files to text)
- Audacity, a two-channel audio editor
- Stage 2 A/V Productions in Bethesda, MD (for digitizing 78rpm and 33⅓ records and VHS tapes (and applying cleanup filtering))
- Mutt (a command line tool for email, useful here for very old archives from "Eudora")
- LibreOffice, an application which can read very old MS Word and MacWrite documents
- LibraryThing, a web site for cataloging books
- World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Markup Validation Service web site (syntax checking for HTML)
- World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) Validation Service web site (syntax checking for CSS)
More credits:
PDF documents were managed by
Apple Preview.
Other back-end programming was done in python. The package manager MacPorts was used to build several of these tools,
including vim, ImageMagick, and python.