TIL that 'asdf' is a proposed replacement data format for astronomical images and other scientific data
I mashed my keyboard and that Wikipedia article came up.
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Can't be more complicated than TIFF
The fuck? Most formats are more complicated than TIFF. TIFF is so simple, you barely have to read 30 pages of well written spec to modify it with just a hex editor. You don't get much simpler with a binary format. Want something complicated? Try implementing PDF with it's hundreds to thousands of pages per version.
No love for us Dvorak users :(
You might also appreciate the ABC musical notation format.
Seems to be an alternatieve to using CSV's for datasets with some more advanced features