Links for August 2020

2020-08-31 (updated 2020-09-01)

• 30-year-old file format behind MacOS hack
• All sorts of things you can get wrong in Unicode, and why - Richard Harris
• An Archive of a Different Type - Internet Archive Blogs
• An Encoding Primer - Daniel Miessler
• Archiving URLs - Gwern.net
• BARE Message Encoding
• Challenge to scientists: does your ten-year-old code still run? - Nature
• Creating a QR Code step by step
• Discovery of scholar's notes shine light on race to decipher Rosetta Stone - The Guardian
• Down with Unicode! Why 16 bits per character is a right pain in the ASCII - The Register
• Fieldata - Wikipedia
• How To Build a Nuclear Warning For 10,000 Years' Time - Slashdot
• How the Library of Congress Unrolled a 2,000-Year-Old Buddhist Scroll - Atlas Obscura
• How to turn an ordinary gzip archive into a database - Artem Golubin
• Inside the revolutionary Bell Labs Datacenter, 1960s - Rare Historical Photos
• LastResort, the Mac's weirdest font - Boing Boing
• MySQL: Some Character Set Basics - Die wunderbare Welt von Isotopp
• The Open-Asset-Importer-Lib
• PDF: Still Unfit for Human Consumption, 20 Years Later - Nielsen Norman Group
• QSN: A Familiar String Interchange Format
• ReplayWeb.page
• Request the saving of a software origin into the archive - Software Heritage archive
• The Secret Life of Variation Selectors - Babelstone
• Today’s Internet Still Relies on an ARPANET-Era Protocol: The Request for Comments - IEEE Spectrum
• Unicode In Five Minutes - Richard Harris
• Using Microsoft Word with git - Martin Fenner
• What Every Programmer Absolutely, Positively Needs to Know About Encodings and Character Sets to Work With Text - Kunststube
• ZIM (file format) - Wikipedia
• ZIM file format - openZIM
• benbalter/word-to-markdown: A ruby gem to liberate content from Microsoft Word documents
• openzim/warc2zim: Command line tool to convert a file in the WARC format to a file in the ZIM format

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