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Links for January 2026

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2026-01-31 (updated 2026-02-01)

• AV1 Image File Format Specification Gets an Upgrade with AVIF v1.2.0 - Alliance for Open Media
• AnyBlox: a framework for reading arbitrary datasets using lightweight WebAssembly decoders bundled with the data - Github
• Computer History Museum Launches Digital Portal to Its Vast Collection - CHM
• Data Foundation
• FASTA Format for Nucleotide Sequences - National Library of Medicine
• GAMM Game Museum - Video Game Museum in Rome
• microsoft/igvm: Independent Guest Virtual Machine (IGVM) file format - GitHub
• How Markdown took over the world - Anil Dash
• Introducing Lix: A universal version control system - Lix Blog
• MapLibre Tile: a modern and efficient vector tile format - MapLibre
• TrID: Files Extensions and File Type Definitions list - Marco Pontello
• One hundred Years of Film Sizes - Michael Rogge
• Simple and Universal: A History of Plain Text, and Why It Matters - Andrew Montalenti
• Text format feature matrix - Dave Jarvis
• The Long Now of the Web: Inside the Internet Archive’s Fight Against Forgetting - HackerNoon
• The lost art of XML - Marcos Magueta
• Want to make your PDFs 20% smaller for free? Brotli support - PDF Association
• What You Need to Know Before Touching a Video File - Hacker News
• What is a PC compatible? - Matthew Garrett
• What you NEED to know before touching a video file - GitHub
• XBRL: a global standard for digital business reporting
• ef1500/libbbf: Bound Book Format: A high-performance, DirectStorage-native container format for comics and manga - Github
• freedomofpress/dangerzone: Take potentially dangerous PDFs, office documents, or images and convert them to safe PDFs - GitHub
• governmentattic.org: electronic copies of thousands of interesting Federal Government documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act
• vamos: virtual Amiga OS - github.com/cnvogelg/amitools

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