Links for April 2025

2025-04-30 (updated 2025-05-25)

AV1 could improve streaming, so why isn’t everyone using it? - The Verge
Agent File (.af): An open file format for serializing stateful agents with persistent memory and behavior - letta-ai/agent-file
Bioinformatic File Format & Their Use Cases - Form Bio
CONL: "markdown" for your config files - Conrad Irwin
Camera Makers Defend Proprietary RAW Formats Despite Open Standard Alternative - Slashdot
Digital Archivists: Protecting Public Data from Erasure - IEEE Spectrum
DotWhat? - The leading File Extension resource
File Types Indexable by Google - Google Search Central
GlyphDrawing.Club -blog
How to support full Unicode in MySQL databases - Mathias Bynens
Hypercosm and Web 3D - Alan De Smet
JSLinux: Run Linux or other Operating Systems in your browser - Fabrice Bellard
KOReader: An ebook reader supporting PDF, DjVu, EPUB, FB2 and more on Cervantes, Kindle, Kobo, PocketBook and Android devices
Libextractor: a library to extract file metadata - Free Software Foundation
MAKING SOFTWARE
Man pages are great, man readers are the problem - Hugo Osvaldo Barrera
Music Notation: Preferred Preservation Formats for Digital Scores - Library of Congress
Sensible - Document Processing for Developers
Steve's Computer Collection
The Humdrum Toolkit for Computational Music Analysis - Humdrum
The Jefferson Computer Museum
The Main 3D Printing File Formats - All3DP
Tiny Emulators
Understanding 3D Printer File Formats (STL, OBJ, 3MF, and more) - Wevolver
Unicode equivalence - Wikipedia
Unpowered SSD endurance investigation finds severe data loss and performance issues - Tom's Hardware
VERT.sh - on-device file conversion
We asked camera companies why their RAW formats are all different and confusing - The Verge
What the Hell Is a Target Triple? - Miguel Young de la Sota
invisal/sqlite-internal: Playaround with SQLite internals - Github
seekbytes/IPA: GUI analyzer for deep-diving into PDF files - Github
~sircmpwn/scdoc - Small man page generator - sourcehut git

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