Standards

On common languages, broadly construed.

Python packaging, dependency management and isolation 2011-04-18 – 2023-01-12

Image search 2021-08-02 – 2023-01-05

Neural codecs Digital recordings and converting between them. 2020-04-23 – 2022-12-19

How to communicate with humans 2019-04-02 – 2022-11-06

Organising a photo collection 2020-01-03 – 2022-11-05

Social organisation of knowledge Descriptive and normative 2021-08-24 – 2022-10-07

Transcoding Digital recordings and converting between them. 2020-04-23 – 2022-10-05

Scientific institutions and mechanisms Descriptive and normative 2021-08-24 – 2022-09-13

Video editing 2020-04-23 – 2022-08-15

Emoji 2019-01-03 – 2022-08-06

HDF5 A data format I need to know about 2020-06-17 – 2022-06-08

Attention management tips for web browsing 2017-04-20 – 2022-06-08

PDF, Portable Document Format How we may use a thousand dollar computer to simulate a one cent piece of paper with zero day exploits 2018-06-03 – 2022-05-17

Data storage formats 2020-06-17 – 2022-05-15

Social norms 2019-10-07 – 2022-04-13

Playing music on the computer Continuing difficulty thereof 2014-11-26 – 2022-04-04

The language game Coevolution of words and meanings 2014-12-29 – 2022-04-01

Care and feeding of macOS filesystems 2016-08-04 – 2022-01-19

Standards hell Lock-in, QWERTY, coordination problems etc 2015-01-05 – 2022-01-11

Presentations Slide decks and other stylised academic dominance displays 2015-06-01 – 2022-01-09

Calendars and contact databases 2015-06-25 – 2022-01-08

Presentation tools 2015-06-01 – 2021-10-26

Economics on networks 2020-05-17 – 2021-10-16

Firefox 2017-04-20 – 2021-10-14

GIFs 2019-11-11 – 2021-09-17

Web browser hacks Castor oil for your webs—ts 2017-04-20 – 2021-08-13

Organising a music collection Also guessing missing metadata 2020-01-03 – 2021-06-14

The simplest thing Minimum viable whatever, worse is better, PC-losering, Postel chaos, Burkean engineering 2020-02-03 – 2021-04-27

Chromium browsers 2017-04-20 – 2020-11-03

Julia, testing and packaging 2020-10-27

Time Certain quirks of entropy 2020-10-20

Media metadata management and editing 2014-11-27 – 2020-01-03

MIDI The near-adequate compromise for digital music that we are stuck with 2015-10-03 – 2019-11-20