Everyone seems to be suddenly proposing RFC-like protocols - Robin Sloan’s Spring ‘83, Tom Critchlow’s Library JSON
Spring ‘83 is a protocol for the transmission and display of something I am calling a “board”, which is an HTML fragment, limited to 2217 bytes, unable to execute JavaScript or load external resources, but otherwise unrestricted. Boards invite publishers to use all the richness of modern HTML and CSS. Plain text and blue links are also enthusiastically supported.
— Robin Sloan’s Spring ‘83
Worldly Wisdom, some proverbs from around the world.
Winnnie the Pooh in Latin. When it reached the New York Times bestseller list in 1960, the Christian Science Monitor wrote, “It is hard to conceive of a Latin work more calculated than this attractive volume to fascinate the modern public, young and old.”
GCHQ puzzles. Daily ones on their Twitter feed as well.