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Links for December 2025

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2025-12-31 (updated 2026-01-01)

• 4 formats better than PDF for storing your documents - XDA
• A vector graphics workstation from the 70s - Rik te Winkel
• Battle of Codecs - JPEG-XL
• Daninet/mtxt: A human-writable text format for musical notes, timing, and expression - GitHub
• Drawing with zero-width characters- Ben Swerdlow
• Fedora: flexible, standards-based, open-source repository software built to support long-term digital preservation
• FileWizard Docker container - XDA
• Full Unicode Search at 50× ICU Speed with AVX‑512 - Ash Vardanian
• Gobs of data - The Go Programming Language
• Google *unkills* JPEG XL? - Toni Sagristà Sellés
• Input Validation - OWASP Cheat Sheet
• Keyport 717 - Shift Happens
• NAF: Nucleotide Archival Format - Kirill Kryukov
• On the Immortality of Microsoft Word - Jordan Bryan
• The ‘Race Against Time’ to Save Music Legends’ Decaying Tapes - The New York Times
• U.S. Government Publishing Office Style Manual - GovInfo
• UNIX V4 tape successfully recovered - The Register
• Web Archive Collection Zipped (WACZ) - webrecorder
• What an unprocessed photo looks like - Maurycy's blog
• dbalsom/fluxfox: A floppy disk image library in Rust - GitHub
• eddieantonio/unormalize: Unicode normalization filters
• fastserial/lite3: A JSON-Compatible Zero-Copy Serialization Format - Github

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