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sito
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Ask HN: What's your favorite programmer niche?
As of recent I've been weirdly fascinated with codecs, serialization protocols, file formats, and the like. It scratches that low-level hacking itch (I spent most of my professional programming in web dev space) without as much commitment to electronics (used to be super big into arduino but I find that's harder to pick up and put down).
I've started hacking on my own container format (yeah, I know, xkcd927), after finding it super frustrating to embed arbitrary time-synched data streams into mp4/matroska/ogg/etc. Also it bugs me how crusty, complicated, and arcane mp4 is, and at the same time, mastroska and ogg are weirdly opaque given how they are supposed to be open standards.
If anyone is curious, here's my container format I've been developing: https://github.com/xkortex/sito
- Advanced Scientific Data Format
cpgtou
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Ask HN: What's your favorite programmer niche?
Character sets and internationalization. I just spent a year building a one-way libiconv-ish library called cpgtou, including chasing down MS-DOS Code Page 709. https://github.com/torstenvl/cpgtou
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Ask HN: How useful are code comments and documentation to you and your team?
I use comments for API documentation in header file libraries, for explaining messy code, and for documenting "state" -- both a reminder of what the program state should be on executing a given line and my mental state when writing it.
Example: https://github.com/torstenvl/cpgtou/blob/master/cpgtou.h
What are some alternatives?
adam - ADAM is a genomics analysis platform with specialized file formats built using Apache Avro, Apache Spark, and Apache Parquet. Apache 2 licensed.
notesutils - Utilities for extracting notes from Notes.app. This repository is lightly maintained and mainly exists to serve as documentation and starting point for your own scripts.
asdf - Extendable version manager with support for Ruby, Node.js, Elixir, Erlang & more
uvfs - Microscopic C++20 archive format
asdf - ASDF (Advanced Scientific Data Format) is a next generation interchange format for scientific data