Links for November 2019

2019-11-30 (updated 2019-12-09)

• Adobe and Twitter Are Designing a System For Permanently Attaching Artists' Names To Pictures - Slashdot
• Computer things they didn't teach you in school #2 - Code Pages, Character Encoding, Unicode, UTF-8 and the BOM - Scott Hanselman
• Do You Remember MIDI Music Files? - Slashdot
• For the Love of Literacy–Better World Books and the Internet Archive Unite to Preserve Millions of Books - Against the Grain
• From HTML to HTML (via HTML) - Thymeleaf
• GitHub Archive Program | The GitHub Archive Program will safely store every public GitHub repo for 1,000 years in the Arctic World Archive in Svalbard, Norway.
• Historical Computers in Japan - Computer Museum
• How I made the yawning face and waffle emoji - The Verge
• Museum of Obsolete Media
• The Hidden Phenomenon That Could Ruin Your Old Discs - VICE
• Understanding Serde - Josh Mcguigan
• What is the "two-drive trick" that can read Amiga disks on a PC? - Retrocomputing Stack Exchange
• droe/acefile: read/test/extract ACE 1.0 and 2.0 archives in pure python
• epoberezkin/ajv: The fastest JSON Schema Validator. Supports draft-04/06/07
• lclevy/libcraw2: simple, easy to read, minimal and portable library to decode Canon RAW 2 files
• Bits On the Wire - ongoing by Tim Bray
• zwegner/faster-utf8-validator: A very fast library for validating UTF-8 using AVX2/SSE4 instructions

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