Links for December 2019

12/31/2019 (updated 1/3/20)

• 500 Byte Images: The Haiku Vector Icon Format - Leah Hanson
• ASCII table and history (or, why does Ctrl+i insert a Tab in my terminal?)
• Doing a SQL join with CSV files with xsv - John D. Cook
• Getting Drivers for Old Hardware Is Harder Than Ever - Slashdot
• Hacking GitHub with Unicode's dotless 'i'. - wisdom
• JSON Compression: Alternative Binary Formats and Compression Methods - Lucidchart
• Mint: Late-Stage Adversarial Interoperability Demonstrates What We Had (And What We Lost) - Electronic Frontier Foundation
• This Page is Designed to Last - Hacker News Discussion
• This Page is Designed to Last: A Manifesto for Preserving Content on the Web
• Unicode is Awesome - wisdom
• Unintuitive JSON Parsing - null program
• Version Museum: A Visual History of Your Favorite Technology
• ViGrey/gb-nes-pdf-html-zip: A Gameboy ROM that is also an NES ROM, a PDF File, an HTML File, and a ZIP File that contains its own source code
• When XML beats JSON: UI layouts - Instawork Engineering
• Why I don't use Semantic Web technologies anymore, even if they still influence me ? - Les petites cases
• gabriel-vasile/mimetype: A golang library for detecting the MIME type and file extension, based on magic numbers
• libvips/libvips: A fast image processing library with low memory needs.
• pyFileFixity - PyPI
• zelon88/HRConvert2: A self-hosted, drag-and-drop, & nosql file conversion server that supports 62x file formats.

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