Links for June 2017

6/30/2017 (updated 7/1/17)

• A quick and handy guide to audio file formats / Boing Boing
• APFS is currently unusable with most non-English languages | Hacker News
• APFS is currently unusable with most non-English languages – The Eclectic Light Company
• Apple Adds Support For FLAC Lossless Audio In iOS 11 - Slashdot
• Archive-It - Web Archiving Services for Libraries and Archives
• BYTE* / The Undocumented Microsoft "Rich" Header
• Before the Cloud, an Underground Mine of Physical Data - Video - NYTimes.com
• Can the Internet Be Archived? | The New Yorker
• Clearings — Real Life
• Comma Separated Vulnerabilities
• Dreaming of Semantic Audio Restoration at a Massive Scale | Internet Archive Blogs
• Emoji: how do you get from U+1F355 to 🍕? – Monica Dinculescu
• GitHub - leandromoreira/digital_video_introduction: A hands-on introduction to video technology: image, video, codec (av1, h264, h265) and more (ffmpeg encoding).
• GitHub - qntm/base65536: Unicode's answer to Base64
• HEIF - High Efficiency Image File Format
• How Can We Create a Manual For Civilization? — Blog of the Long Now
• How to hack #4 – XML External Entity Processing | I am code guru
• I made a 2001-era emoji font! That you can use! – Monica Dinculescu
• IIPC | International Internet Preservation Consortium
• Journal Article Tag Suite
• KYLI – because it is superior to JSON – Terence Eden's Blog
• Manifesto: Rules for standards-makers
• Opus 1.2 Released - Slashdot
• Perma.cc
• Preserving digital art: How will it survive?
• Show HN: Tesoro – Personal internet archive | Hacker News
• Spongedown: Markdown with svg bob support
• Ted Nelson’s Junk Mail (and the Archive Corps Pilot) « ASCII by Jason Scott
• The Plain Person’s Guide to Plain Text Social Science - Kieran Healy (PDF)
• The Unicode Blog: Unicode Emoji 5.0 specification now final
• The Wonderful WiFi232: BBSing Has (Literally) Never Been Easier | Byte Cellar
• The future of education is plain text · Simply Statistics
• VHS Tapes: How Archivists Are Working To Save Them : All Tech Considered : NPR
• Videotapes Are Becoming Unwatchable As Archivists Work To Save Them - Slashdot
• What's New in Unicode 10.0 - emojipedia
• iconvg - GoDoc
• iipc/awesome-web-archiving: An Awesome List for getting started with web archiving
• mb21 - The Teletext Museum
• struct — Binary Data Structures — PyMOTW 3
• substance/texture: As open as LaTeX and as simple as a classic word processor. Community-driven.
• svgi, the SVG inspection tool
• únicode is hard – Terence Eden's Blog

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