Links for April 2018

4/30/2018 (updated 5/11/18)

• 03. Designing, saving and loading a forward-compatible binary file format | Geometer Blog
• 2,000+ awesome hieroglyphs, coming soon to Unicode / Boing Boing
• A new JPEG format for virtual reality, drones and self-driving cars
• AV1 Still Image File Format (AVIF)
• Apple proposes guide dogs, wheelchairs & other disability-themed emoji for next version of Unicode
• Datasheets for Datasets (pdf)
• Evolution of the English Alphabet – UsefulCharts
• FileZigZag | Online Converter, Document, Video, Audio, Image
• Fileshifter.io - Easiest way to convert files
• Glyph Interchange Format
• Obsolete Technology in Unicode – Terence Eden's Blog
• PDF in three dimensions | Mad File Format Science
• Reverse engineering the Notability file format - Julia Evans
• Scripting News: Future-safing the web
• Software Library: Macintosh : Free Software : Free Download, Borrow and Streaming : Internet Archive
• The Dawn of Multimedia The Digital Antiquarian
• The Next 700 Data Description Languages (pdf)
• The Woman Who Gave the Macintosh a Smile | The New Yorker
• The long, incredibly tortuous, and fascinating process of creating a Chinese font — Quartz
• The long, tortuous and fascinating process of creating a Chinese font | Hacker News
• Unplain text: How to shape and render non-Latin text – Increment: Programming Languages
• Xz format inadequate for long-term archiving
• jehna/img2chr: Convert any image to NES .chr file
• libimobiledevice/libplist: A library to handle Apple Property List format in binary or XML
• mafintosh/tar-stream: tar-stream is a streaming tar parser and generator.
• nasa-gibs/mrf: GDAL-compatible file format driver designed for fast access to imagery
• nasser/shapeserver: Harfbuzz shaping server
• next generation video: Introducing AV1
• pastpages
• xupefei/QuickLook: Bring macOS “Quick Look” feature to Windows

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