Cool stuff to stumble upon, new and old.
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• Viewing images
  You cannot write an image viewer for the terminal without understanding everything about file formats and displaying images on a computer screen first. Right? Like, everything! A post full of side quests about pixels, compression, aliasing, image libraries, color spaces, and math. There’s a section about cursed mouse pointers, too! :)
• My color cycling efforts at Datastorm
  Dalton/Tulou shows off and explains some of his color cycling Amiga pictures (i. e. animation by palette changes). These were all made for the Datastorm demo parties which had dedicated color cycling competitions, apparently – I must have missed that when I was there in 2014…
• The REM-arkable Misadventures of LIST
  Another post about everything – here, it’s everything about Commodore BASIC’s un-tokenizer implementation on the Commodore PET: the “LIST” command. An earlier post dealt with the opposite direction, i. e. the tokenizer for parsing BASIC code. These articles examine quirks and bugs across different BASIC versions, with detailled explanations exactly why and how something goes wrong, down to the 6502 machine code.
• Alternative Layout System
  What if all words in a paragraph have the same width? Why not cram in long words near the margin by bending them? Or reduce the text size of the last syllable? How about horizontally stretching the last word or letter? Turns out it has all been done, often in historic Hebrew and Arabic manuscripts, and it’s all demonstrated here (and in the book).