Links
Random things from around the web, worth a click.
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UTF-8 is a Brilliant Design
The first time I learned about UTF-8 encoding, I was fascinated by how well-thought and brilliantly it was designed to represent millions of characters from different languages and scripts, and still be backward compatible with ASCII.
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Building Vector Tiles from scratch
I have been looking for a more efficient way to render the map.
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We'd be Better Off with 9-bit Bytes
A number of 70s computing systems had nine-bit bytes, most prominently the PDP-10, but today11 Apparently, it was the System/360 that really set the standard here. all systems use 8-bit bytes and that now seems natural.
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The Secret History of Tor: How a Military Project Became a Lifeline for Privacy
by Ben CollierA story of secrecy, resistance, and the fight for digital freedom.
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