Links for January 2017

1/31/2017 (updated 3/22/17)

• A deep dive into HandBrake and Video Transcoding | The Robservatory
• A really obscure forgotten audio format: “Talking rubber” | Ars Technica
• AV Artifact Atlas, a resource for identifying errors and anomalies in analog and digital video
• Building Better Interfaces with SVG: Slides
• Chrome 56 adds native support for playing FLAC audio in the browser | 9to5Google
• Convert asciidoc to markdown
• From Tape Drives to Memory Orbs, the Data Formats of Star Wars Suck (Spoilers) | Motherboard
• GOOD JUNK
• GitHub Archive
• History of Recorded Sound | DMH
• How data encryption software creates one way hash files using the sha1 hashing algorithm.
• How the Alphabet Was Born from Hieroglyphs | The BAS Library
• Keyman is going free! | Keyman
• Let’s Stop Ascribing Meaning to Code Points - In Pursuit of Laziness
• Let’s Stop Ascribing Meaning to Code Points | Hacker News
• Memory of Mankind: All of Human Knowledge Buried in a Salt Mine - The Atlantic
• PCMCIA History: From Laptops to CableCards
• PDFlower - Reflow PDF papers for small-screen reading
• Punched Card Typography Explained
• RetroFloppy - Floppy Disk Transfer and Conversion Services
• Sidehelm - Continuous CSV import pipeline
• Software Heritage
• The Mark I Computer at Harvard
• Things Every Hacker Once Knew
• Vidar’s Blog » dd is not a disk writing tool
• We Used To Have 6 More Letters In Our Alphabet
• Why are the data-formats in Star Wars such an awful mess? Because filmmakers make movies about filmmaking / Boing Boing

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