FileFormatNet The Digital Rosetta Stone https://cyber.harvard.edu/rss/ https://www.fileformat.info/images/icon/i_32x32.png https://www.fileformat.info/ 32 32 en-us https://www.fileformat.info/news/index.htm [email protected] (FileFormat) Thu, 19 Dec 2024 08:10:28 GMT 1440 [email protected] (FileFormat) <p><ul class="linkblog"> <li><a href="https://earlymacintosh.org/">Apple Macintosh before System 7</a></li> <li><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42099469">Ask HN: Where to put a static page that would last forever - Hacker News</a></li> <li><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42226953">Charset=&quot;WTF-8&quot; - Hacker News</a></li> <li><a href="https://github.com/cloudevents/spec">CloudEvents specification</a></li> <li><a href="https://tinfoil.com/">Early Recorded Sounds and Wax Cylinders - Tinfoil.com</a></li> <li><a href="https://3dcloud.com/3d-file-formats/">Essential Guide to 3D File Formats - 3D Cloud</a></li> <li><a href="https://hub.jhu.edu/2024/11/21/ancient-alphabet-discovered-syria/">Evidence of oldest known alphabetic writing unearthed in ancient Syrian city - Johns Hopkins Hub</a></li> <li><a href="https://wiki.osdev.org/Ext2#Inode_Data_Structure">Ext2 - OSDev Wiki</a></li> <li><a href="https://zkorean.com/hangul/history_of_hangul">History of Hangul Part I - zKorean</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.nomodes.com/history/pub-manual">Manual for PUB (a markup language in 1971) - Larry Tesler</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.mpxj.org/">MPXJ: A Java library for MPX files</a></li> <li><a href="https://tisch.nyu.edu/cinema-studies/miap.html">Moving Image Archiving and Preservation Masters Degree Program - NYU</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.abortretry.fail/p/the-internet-gopher-from-minnesota">The Internet Gopher from Minnesota - Abort, retry, fail</a></li> <li><a href="https://rknight.me/blog/thinking-about-recipe-formats-more-than-anyone-should/">Thinking About Recipe Formats More Than Anyone Should - Robb Knight</a></li> <li><a href="https://zeldman.com/2024/11/19/understanding-marti-a-new-metadata-framework-for-ai/">Understanding MARTI: A New Metadata Framework for AI - Zeldman</a></li> <li><a href="https://gist.github.com/rendello/d37552507a389656e248f3255a618127">Unicode characters that expand or constract when the case is changed - rendello</a></li> <li><a href="https://xy2i.blogspot.com/2024/11/using-imhexs-pattern-language-to-parse.html">Visualizing binary files with ImHex's DSL, the &quot;pattern language&quot; - xy2</a></li> <li><a href="https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20241031-00/?p=110443">What has case distinction but is neither uppercase nor lowercase? - The Old New Thing</a></li> <li><a href="https://meiert.com/en/blog/write-html/#toc-the-html-way">Write HTML, the HTML Way (Not the XHTML Way) - Jens Oliver Meiert</a></li> </ul></p> https://www.fileformat.info/news/2024/11/30/links_2024_11.htm [email protected] (FileFormat) https://www.fileformat.info/news/2024/11/30/links_2024_11.htm Thu, 19 Dec 2024 08:10:28 GMT <p><ul class="linkblog"> <li><a href="https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20241007-00/?p=110345">A popular but wrong way to convert a string to uppercase or lowercase - The Old New Thing</a></li> <li><a href="https://sidneys1.com/retrocomputing/2024/10/04/booting-sun-sparc-servers.html">Booting Sun SPARC Servers - Sidneys1.com</a></li> <li><a href="https://globalchinapulse.net/character-amnesia-in-china/">Character Amnesia in China</a></li> <li><a href="https://github.com/joncampbell123/dosbox-x">DOSBox-X: Enhanced Fork of DOSBox for Expanded DOS and Retro PC Support</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.flickr.org/programs/content-mobility/data-lifeboat/">Data Lifeboat - Flickr Foundation</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.dookiedemastered.com/">Dookie Demastered</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.ryanliptak.com/blog/every-rc-exe-bug-quirk-probably/">Every bug/quirk of the Windows resource compiler (rc.exe), probably - ryanliptak.com</a></li> <li><a href="https://blog.jreyesr.com/posts/typst/">Exploring Typst, a new typesetting system similar to LaTeX - jreyesr's blog</a></li> <li><a href="https://github.com/typst/hayagriva/blob/main/docs/file-format.md">Hayagriva file format</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5ebcowAJD8">I used to hate QR codes. 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