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PRONOM release statistics

My contribution to PRONOM research week 2023 (held in November 2023) is a PRONOM summary website and Application Programming Interface…

Shattering the eyeglass: Using Kaitai Structs to dissect the eyeglass’ contents

In my post from 2012: Genesis of a File Format, I created a new file format – the eyeglass file…

Stop, Look, Listen, retro game style advertising for safety at a Houston Bus Stop

Linting as understanding

I have been working on a Python template repository as part of my day-job at Orcfax. It is based on…

Signposting: What is the checksum of a directory? Introducing sumfolder1

In Fractal in detail: What information is in a file-format identification report? I describe the different ways of dissecting the…

Programming things: Giving up… (or at least getting bitten by semver and Golang’s unforgiving nature, and wanting to!)

There are good days, and there are bad days when coding, and you never stop learning. Today was not a…

Information Maintainers talk: Something something twenty years open source…

It was back in May, yes, way back when, that Jordan Hale of the Information Maintainers group put the following to me:

I write today to ask if you’d be interested in being our special guest on the next Information Maintainers call … we thought your perspective on working within and maintaining decentralized, small-group systems and development infrastructures would be really rad to hear about. What do you think?

I was pretty stoked. So of course, I jumped at the chance and wrote about “Something something twenty years open source…”