Standards

On common languages, broadly construed.

Scientific institutions and mechanisms Descriptive and normative 2021-08-24 – 2022-05-17

Python packaging, dependency management and isolation 2011-04-18 – 2022-05-17

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

How to communicate with humans 2019-04-02 – 2022-02-17

Video editing 2020-04-23 – 2022-01-30

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

Transcoding Digital recordings and converting between them. 2020-04-23 – 2021-10-30

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

Image search 2021-08-02

Organising a photo collection 2020-01-03 – 2021-08-02

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 0001-01-01 – 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