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Last updated March 18, 2023 at 1:23:21 PM GMT

Links for February 2023

• Archiving in the Time of Streaming - Jason Scott
• Rejected Emoji Proposals - Charlotte Buff
• The dangers behind image resizing - Hacker News

Links for January 2023

• Doc Converter - Convert PDF files to Word documents (docx)
• FFhistory - Kostya's Boring Codec World
• Fake Parallel Printer: A Parallel Port Traffic Capturing Tool - Tom Verbeure
• Hello, PNG! - David Buchanan (Retr0id)
• New evidence of African writing system that pre-dates European colonialists - Boing Boing
• Pandoc - Release 3
• QOI — The Quite OK Image Format
• Revisiting Apple’s ill-fated Lisa computer, 40 years on - Arstechnica
• The Smithsonian Will Restore Hundreds of the World's Oldest Sound Recordings
• The Vintage Technology Digital Archive
• The challenge of preserving and archiving information... for all eternity - TED Radio Hour (NPR)
• The yaml document from hell - Ruud van Asseldonk

Links for December 2022

• About the Retro-Printer Module | RetroPrinter.com
• Brute Force Colors! - Arnaud Carré
• How I still use Flash in 2022 - Foon by Robin Allen
• How the Steam Deck breathes life into underrated old games - TechRadar
• PostScript: A Digital Printing Press - Computer History Museum
• QOI is now my favorite asset format - Chris Wellons
• QOIR: a Fast, Simple, Lossless Image File Format based on QOI
• Unicode in 2022 - Unicode Consortium
• djot - a new markup language more rigorous than markdown
• jgm/djot: A light markup language - Github

Links for October 2022

• 1956 Philips 353A Bakelite Vacuum Tube Radio Repair & Restoration
• A guided tour through ID3 esoterica with Lars Wikman - The Changelog
• Adobe files have Pantone colors removed and replaced with black - Hacker News
• Can DNA Help Us Store Data for 1,000 Years? - Slashdot
• Digital Amnesia (2014) - IMDb
• Digital Amnesia (video) - YouTube
• Digital Preservation Framework for Risk Assessment and Preservation Planning - US National Archives
• Display emoji or plain text using variation selectors - John D. Cook
• Eureka! Finding the key to ancient Egypt - British Museum
• GitHub - asdf-format/asdf: ASDF (Advanced Scientific Data Format) is a next generation interchange format for scientific data
• Google Outlines Why They Are Removing JPEG-XL Support From Chrome - Phoronix
• How to become a pirate archivist - Anna's blog
• Id3vx – a library for parsing and encoding ID3 tags - The Changelog
• JSON is not a YAML subset - John Millikin
• Longevity of Recordable CDs, DVDs and Blu-Rays (2020) - Hacker News
• Longevity of Recordable CDs, DVDs and Blu-rays - Canadian Conservation Institute
• Lost something? Search through 91.7 million files from the 80s, 90s, and 2000s - Ars Techica
• PDF processing and analysis with open-source tools - Bits Galore
• Reverse Engineering the Sinar .IA Raw File Format - Maximilian Golub
• The Canon Cat and the Mac that Steve Jobs killed - reproof
• Traffic Feed Format
• Unicode and CJK Unified Ideographs for numbers - John D. Cook
• Uniform eXchange Format (uxf) - Mark Summerfield
• What is DocArray? - jina.ai
• Why is Markdown popular? - Russell Beattie
• decker file format - Beyond Loom

Links for November 2022

• Digital Books wear out faster than Physical Books - Internet Archive
• Formal spec for GitHub Flavored Markdown - The GitHub Blog
• libgrapheme - suckless.org
• The Case for JPEG XL - Cloudinary
• The case for JPEG XL - Hacker News
• The decades long quagmire of encapsulated HTML - Russell Beattie
• The Rosetta Stone and what it actually says (video) - Ilona Regulski, British Museum
• The Vanamo Online Game Museum - Wikimedia Commons

Links for September 2022

• Announcing ICU4X 1.0 - Unicode.org
• Announcing The Unicode® Standard, Version 15.0 - Unicode.org
• Building a docset for dash - Hynek Schlawack
• Dominoes in Unicode - John D. Cook
• FLAC Format overview - Xiph
• Google’s Project Caviar to compete with Dolby Atmos, Vision - Protocol
• Jean-François Champollion Deciphers the Rosetta Stone - JSTOR Daily
• Katakana, Hiragana, and Unicode - John D. Cook
• Museum of Plugs and Sockets
• Ruffle - Flash Player emulator written in Rust
• SVG support in Cloudflare Images
• The Collectors Who Save Video-Game History from Oblivion - New Yorker
• The Pirate Library Mirror wants to preserve all human knowledge… illegally - The Next Web

Links for August 2022

• Flat Data - GitHub Next
• I Made an Internet Time Machine - YouTube
• Life on the Internet - Waxy.org
• Losslessly optimising images - Ruben Schade
• Microformats Wiki
• Microsoft is Open-Sourcing Its Emoji - Slashdot
• The PC & Internet Revolution in Rural America - The Changelog
• The messages that survived civilisation's collapse - BBC
• Types Of Barcodes - 1D & 2D - Scanbot SDK
• Unicode Utilities: Confusables

Links for July 2022

• 3d: Dependent Data Descriptions for Verified Validation - EverParse Manual
• A Library of Books No One Can Read For 100 Years - Slashdot
• Apple II Documentation Project
• Archives of Tomorrow: Video Formats - Ashley Blewer
• (Computer) Museums In Switzerland
• DICOM File Format Basics - Vladsiv
• GitHub - maehr/awesome-digital-history: Find primary sources online and learn how to research history digitally.
• Hardening Attack Surfaces with Formally Proven Binary Format Parsers - Microsoft Research
• Retronic - Martin Maly
• SQLite Internals: Pages & B-trees - Fly.io
• Squashfs Binary Format
• The Digital Dark Ages
• The Pay Phone Museum
• The tar archive format, its extensions, and why GNU tar extracts in quadratic time - Mort's Ramblings
• Why the Windows Registry sucks … technically - Richard WM Jones
• mTCP TCP/IP applications for DOS PCs
• mortie/jcof: An efficient drop-in replacement for JSON - Github

Links for June 2022

• Are new geospatial formats useful (to me?) - macwright.com
• Canada's Internet Archive opens Vancouver headquarters, meeting space for the tech world - Vancouver Sun
• Comparison of Data Lake Table Formats (Iceberg, Hudi and Delta Lake)
• Fig Format 3.2 - XFIG User Manual
• Fighting JPEG color banding - Uploadcare Blog
• Florents-Tselai/WarcDB: WarcDB: Web crawl data as SQLite databases - Github
• History of Lossless Data Compression Algorithms - Engineering and Technology History Wiki
• How to memorize the ASCII table - John D. Cook
• In Defense of OpenStreetMap's Data Model - Steve Coast
• New UUID Formats - IETF
• Pikchr: Documentation
• Remembering Apple’s Newton, 30 years on - Ars Technica
• The Hidden Worlds of the Klein Tools TI250 Thermal Imager - Scott Smitelli
• What ID3v2 could have been - Underjord
• What’s the best lossless image format? PNG, WebP, AVIF, and JPEG XL compared - Johannes Siipola
• ZIM File Format - OpenZIM Archive File
• perlpacktut - tutorial on pack and unpack - Perldoc Browser
• webOS Archive

Links for May 2022

• Clairnote SN music notation
• How To Build an Absurdly Backwards Compatible Website - flower.codes
• Kindle, EPUB, And Amazon’s Love Of Reinventing Wheels - Hackaday
• Library JSON - A Proposal for a Decentralized Goodreads
• Lotus 1-2-3 For Linux
• Modernizing AWK, a 45-year old language, by adding CSV support - Ben Hoyt
• Okular: The Universal Document Viewer - kde.org
• RSS Feed Best Practises - Kevin Cox
• RawArray: A Simple, Fast, and Extensible Archival Format for Numeric Data [pdf]
• Super-structured Data: Rethinking the Schema
• Triple Entry Blogging - Tom Critchlow
• Universal Scene Description (USD) 22.05 documentation - Pixar
• Usdz File Format Specification - Pixar
• Video Game History Foundation
• Why isn’t there a decent file format for tabular data?
• Why isn’t there a decent file format for tabular data? - Hacker News
• XMODEM in 2022 - Matt Keeter
• Zstandard Worked Example Part 1: Concepts - nigeltao.github.io
• mmastrac/automedia: A set of tools for automatically managing bitrot and format in large quantities of media

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