The Cuneiform Tablets of 2015 [PDF]
A 2015 paper by Long Tien Nguyen and Alan Kay with a proposal for digital preservation.
We discuss the problem of running today’s software decades,centuries, or even millennia into the future.
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HTML Symbols, Entities, Characters and Codes
For all your copying and pasting needs:
A delightful reference for HTML Symbols, Entities and ASCII Character Codes
Unraveling The JPEG
A deep, deep, deep dive into the JPEG format. Best of all, it’s got interactive explanations you can tinker with, a la Nicky Case or Bret Victor.
The crooked timber of humanity | 1843
Tom Standage—author of the brilliant book The Victorian Internet—relates a tale of how the Chappe optical telegraph was hacked in 19th century France, thereby making it one of the earliest recorded instances of a cyber attack.
Putting Civilization in a Box Means Choosing Our Legacy
A run-down of digital preservation technologies for very, very long-term storage …in space.
Href Tools - Free online web tools
Handy web-based tools—compress HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, and convert files from one format to another.
Essential Image Optimization
Following on from Amber’s introduction, here’s a really in-depth look at image formats, compression and optimisation techniques from Addy.
This is a really nicely put together little web book released under a Creative Commons licence.
Galloping, GIFs and Genes: Geneticists Store Moving Image in Living Bacteria — Blog of the Long Now
An interesting approach to digital preservation: storing digital video in the DNA of bacteria.
Phishing with Unicode Domains - Xudong Zheng
Domains registered with punycode names (and then given TLS certificates) are worryingly indistinguishable from their ASCII counterparts.
Can you spot the difference between the URLs https://adactio.com and https://аdаctіо.com?
Base64 Encoding & Performance, Part 1: What’s Up with Base64?
Harry clearly outlines the performance problems of Base64 encoding images in stylesheets. He’s got a follow-up post with sample data.
localFont - A localStorage solution for web font loading
A quick drag’n’drop way to base 64 encode your web fonts so you can stick ‘em in local storage.
How to support full Unicode in MySQL databases · Mathias Bynens
Some good database character-encoding advice from Mathias.
Home - Transloadit
A very handy looking API that turns file uploading (and conversion) into a service.
Entity Code - A Clear and Quick Reference to HTML Entities Codes
A handy page for looking up HTML entities.
?C ?V Character
A very useful tool for getting character entities (use the "as HTML" option) in one click.
Clichés are hard
An offhand remark I made on Twitter spurs Dom on to do a whole lotta research on character encoding in class names.
Mysql database migration and special characters | Orthogonal Thought
This article is a life-saver for me. I'm constantly having trouble with special characters when I'm backing up databases for local copies of my sites.