Applications seem to want to hide everything from you so you only dwell on what they are offering, but in the end you need to be responsible for everything no matter what they tell you. Complexity The Apple view of the world is that the user needs to view the computer the same way they view a toaster or microwave oven. …

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I’ve been doing a lot of 3D printing lately. No, I didn’t get a new printer for the holidays, but I’ve been on streak of productivity and my setup has allowed me to do more with less time. That got me thinking about how 3D printing is an enabler for Anticryptography. Storage Like most people, this is …

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Stop putting your crap in my system! We have a 2 fold problem. One is a searching for a solution. The second is created by trying to solve the first problem, but poorly. I’m talking about software distribution. I’ve lived this problem for the last 3 decades. Either as the recipient or as the creator (I …

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QOI, the standard Earlier this month I wrote about an exciting new image format that was an option for simple and fast encoding while also being on par with state of the art formats. QOI was lossless, compressed about as well as PNG and was about as fast as an image can get to encode and decode. Dominic Szablewski …

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QOI There is a new image format in town. It is about on par with PNG for compression, and only encodes RGB and RGBA. What is interesting about it is how simple it is, and as a result of that simplicity how fast it is. So fast that it has achieved essentially O(n) which is the optimal performance scale for an image. …

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Image standards, so many to choose from… Even before people had powerful graphics abilities in their PCs (remember until VGA was widely adopted in 90’s most PCs only supported 1, 4 or 16 colors) there were a literal sea of image formats. Most of them you will have never seen, heard of or used. Many were …

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This isn’t a new problem. If you are going to archive something successfully you need a format that will be accessible for years to come. This is a fundamental concept of anticryptography. It goes way back also. The library of Alexandria was an immense effort that was made possible by a simple format, ink on …

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