Links for June 2018

6/30/2018 (updated 7/16/18)

• Apache Parquet - Wikipedia
• Applesauce - The ReActiveMicro Apple II Wiki
• BBC Blogs - Technology & Creativity Blog - Building the Computer Literacy Project archive
• BBC Computer Literacy Project Archive
• BBC releases computer history archive - BBC News
• Building better compression together with DivANS | Dropbox Tech Blog
• Collect, Curate, and Share your Archives with Latest Webrecorder Release | Rhizome
• Convert MP4 to GIF
• Earliest images of the moon were much better than we realised | Hacker News
• Eleanor Robson on Twitter: "The plan is to align ancient texts of Rosetta Stone (for now in alphabetic transliteration: Unicode for ancient Egyptian scripts not yet adequate) & modern translations using https://t.co/vZdv7iw1iH #digiclass https://t.co/
• Get Started – Alliance for Open Media
• Inside the Windows 95 File System (PDF)
• Inside the facility where Kodak brings film back to life | Popular Science
• Internet Archive, Code for Science and Society, and California Digital Library to Partner on a Data Sharing and Preservation Pilot Project | Internet Archive Blogs
• Internet is losing its memory: Cerf - Strategy - Networking - iTnews
• JPEG XL could let you pack twice as many photos into your phone - CNET
• JSON5 | JSON for Humans
• Jsonnet - The Data Templating Language
• McMoon: How the Earliest Images of the Moon Were so Much Better than we Realised – World of Indie
• New file format in Sketch 43 - Sketch Developers
• Optical Magnetic Stripe Reading | Anfractuosity
• Optical Scanning Technology Lets Researchers Recover Lost Indigenous Languages from Old Wax Cylinder Recordings | Open Culture
• Reverse Engineering Instruments’ File Format
• SDLang - Simple Declarative Language
• Schrödingers website: How to close your blog the right way! •
• The DEC 340 Monitor – ENGBLG
• The Land Before Binary – Marianne Bellotti – Medium
• The Life and Death of Teletext | Hacker News
• The Unicode Blog: Announcing The Unicode® Standard, Version 11.0
• The life and death of teletext, and what happened next | Den of Geek
• USDZ File Format Specification
• Unicode Patterns
• What's New In Unicode 11.0
• YAML: probably not so great after all
• bevry/cson: CoffeeScript-Object-Notation. Same as JSON but for CoffeeScript objects.
• cjus/umf: Universal Messaging Format
• data-serialization: Enqueue Zero
• dhall-lang/dhall-lang: A configuration language guaranteed to terminate
• hashicorp/hcl: HCL is the HashiCorp configuration language.
• large-36.jpg (JPEG Image, 1600 × 900 pixels) - Scaled (93%)
• pdftocairo command man page - poppler-utils | ManKier
• sK1 Project - SWord
• sed-seyedi/mset: Mset is a user friendly configuration file format with a parser that is only 50 lines of code.
• skeeto/utf-7: UTF-7 encoder and decoder in ANSI C
• thosakwe/t2b: A wicked-powerful text macro language for building binary files.

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