Z85, a format for encoding arbitrary binary data as text, for transmission in text-based channels. In other words, like base64, except a bit more compact (using 5 characters to encode 4 bytes rather than 4 to encode 3).
(Via What’s New In Python 3.13)
Noted by Damian Cugley .A database of European (EU and EEA) alternatives to the cloud services and SaaS essentials that mostly come from more well-known American companies. By Constantin Graf, a software developer in Vienna.
(Via Ian Betteridge (@ianb@well.com))
Noted by Damian Cugley .People Hate the Idea of Car-Free Cities — Until They Live in One (Wired).
(Via https://kottke.org/24/04/0044232-people-hate-the-idea-of)
Noted by Damian Cugley .Someone’s created a guessing game where you’re told whether your guess is alphabetically before or after the answer. Feels like a binary chop should be the way to go, but thinking of words equidistant between two other words is more confusing than doing the same thing with numbers …
(Via https://kottke.org/24/09/0045344-fun-little-word-game-alph)
Noted by Damian Cugley .New blog post by me:
I was one of the guest observers at the election count on the evening of
4 July 2024 and it was interesting seeing the process in action in detail.
Wisdom Kaye, a model, director, stylist, photographer, videographer, and all-around social media personality, takes on the challenge of styling himself as different typefaces. Papyrus has never looked so cool.
There are eight different flavours of UUID and here is a short post on when you might use some of them. I like using v5 UUIDs for things that have a natural unique identifier (in some scope) but some protocol requires the entities to also have a UUID.
I’m at the town hall as one of the people observing the counting of the vote. Dozens of people carefully counting, recounting and stacking pieces of paper.
I voted in the city elections this morning before work. This is the first time I have voted under the new voter-suppression-lite regulations, so I had to show my Australian passport before voting. No crowds at all this time of day, so the extra ID faff was not an issue.