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2017-04-30 (updated 2017-05-02)

• 'Arctic World Archive' Will Keep the World's Data Safe In an Arctic Mineshaft - Slashdot
• APFS filesystem format - Cugu's blog
• Apache Parquet - a columnar storage format for the Hadoop ecosystem
• Developer Shares A Recoverable Container Format That's File System Agnostic - Slashdot
• Early Mac software comes to the Internet Archive / Boing Boing
• Early Macintosh Emulation Comes to the Archive | Internet Archive Blogs
• Early Macintosh Emulation Comes to the Archive | Internet Archive Blogs
• Emoji for fun and profit - Webstock
• Etleap: ETL for Big Data
• Forgotten audio formats: The flexi disc | Ars Technica
• Graphical User Interface Gallery
• Inside the executable: a VB programmer's guide to the portable executable format-VBForums
• Kaitai Struct: declarative binary format parsing language
• Making Cassette Tapes | Stoned Mode - YouTube
• MarcoPon/SeqBox: A single file container/archive that can be reconstructed even after total loss of file system structures
• Me and SVG by Amelia Bellamy-Royds on CodePen
• Me and SVG | Hacker News
• Modern Hieroglyphs: Binary Logic Behind the Universal "Power Symbol" - 99% Invisible
• NebulousLabs/glyphcheck: Detect malicious homoglyphs in Go source code
• New Home and Features for Sustainability of Digital Formats Site | The Signal
• On Chinese Writing: Evolution
• On Chinese Writing: When Mao Reinvents Writing
• Please stop writing new serialization protocols | Locklin on science
• RCFile - Wikipedia
• Record Making | Stoned Mode - YouTube
• SequenceFile - Hadoop Wiki
• Should Archive.org Ignore Robots.txt Directives And Cache Everything? - Slashdot
• Siegfried - a signature-based file format identification tool
• Skia Graphics Library
• Snappy, a fast compressor/decompressor by google
• So you think you know what a number is…
• The Burroughs 205 and 220 Blog: Knuth's Algol-58 Compiler
• The Lost Picture Show: Hollywood Archivists Can’t Outpace Obsolescence - IEEE Spectrum
• The Magic 0xC2
• The Unsung Heroes of Cinema on Vimeo
• Unicode Details for Developers – DaftCode Blog
• Want a New Emoji? Good Luck. - by Andy Warner
• dvisvgm - A fast DVI to SVG converter
• janlelis/uniscribe: Debug help for Unicode strings
• messageformat/messageformat.js: ICU MessageFormat for Javascript - i18n Plural and Gender Capable Messages
• saltpack - a modern crypto messaging format

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