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A technical explainer walking through every step of decoding a PNG file, from chunk parsing and IDAT concatenation to zlib decompression, defiltering, and interlacing.
A blog essay arguing that plain text remains one of computing's most durable and trustworthy technologies, thanks to its simplicity, portability, human readability, and seamless integration with decades-old Unix tooling like grep, sed, and awk.
Support for mmCIF, PDB, fasta, and fastq formats has been added to the Hugging Face datasets library, which should significantly accelerate bioinformatics workflows.
Hexel Editor is a native macOS hex editor with intelligent file format recognition for developers and power users.
Garry Tan and Kepano discuss how Markdown files are a durable, universal format that outlasts rapidly evolving apps and intelligence stacks, advocating for investing in formats over apps.
Lab 6 is a niche technical zine publishing polyglot files that combine formats like PDF, Gemini, HTML, and more in creative ways.