Nobody Gets Fired for Picking JSON, but Maybe They Should?
Nobody Gets Fired for Picking JSON, but Maybe They Should?
By Miguel Young de la Sota
Nobody Gets Fired for Picking JSON, but Maybe They Should?
JSON is extremely popular but deeply flawed. This article discusses the details of JSON’s design, how it’s used (and misused), and how
https://monodes.com/predaelli/2026/03/29/nobody-gets-fired-for-picking-json-but-maybe-they-should/
#Javascript #formats #JSON #parsing
"Germany’s Sovereign Digital Stack Mandates ODF: a Landmark Validation of Open Document Standards."
https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/03/19/germanys-sovereign-digital-stack-mandates-odf/
"The Document Foundation (#TDF), the non-profit entity behind #LibreOffice, welcomes the inclusion of the Open Document Format (#ODF) as a mandated standard format in Germany’s Deutschland-Stack, the federal government’s sovereign digital infrastructure framework for all public administrations."
Florian Effenberger (@floeff), executive director of TDF: "You cannot claim digital sovereignty while allowing your documents to be locked in proprietary formats controlled by a single vendor."

The Document Foundation (TDF), the non-profit entity behind LibreOffice, welcomes the inclusion of the Open Document Format (ODF) as a mandated standard format in Germany’s Deutschland-Stack, the federal government’s sovereign digital infrastructure framework for all public administrations. The Stack, published by the German Federal Ministry for Digital and State Modernisation (Bundesministerium für Digitales und Staatsmodernisierung), establishes the technical standards for a shared, interoperable and sovereign digital infrastructure serving all Germany’s public administrations. Under the framework’s “Semantic Technologies and Real-Time Analytics” pillar, ODF and PDF/UA are explicitly named as the two mandated document formats, to the exclusion of proprietary alternatives. “This is not a recommendation or a preference, it is a mandate,” said Florian Effenberger, Executive Director of The Document Foundation. “Germany’s decision to anchor ODF at the heart of its national sovereign stack confirms what we have argued for years: open, vendor-neutral document formats are not a niche concern for some technology specialists and FOSS advocates. They are a fundamental infrastructure for democratic, interoperable and sovereign public administrations.” The Deutschland-Stack is grounded in a set of principles that align with TDF’s long-standing advocacy positions. The framework adopts a “Made in EU first” principle, requires open interfaces and local data storage,
What's a good #format to serialize simple structured #data in an efficient way?
I'm thinking about some binary #XML encoding. Also, #ASN.1 because it natively uses integers, not just strings. Is the packed representation (PER) widely supported?
The data will be a bunch of interleaved time series streams, so variable field lengths could be a big win.
Is there a format for stuff like that?
#Matroska's EBML? Only I'd have to hack the schema in.
#LibreOffice #TDF ( #The #Document #Foundation )accuse #OnlyOffice de « s'associer à #Microsoft dans une stratégie de verrouillage des utilisateurs ». Le reproche central : la suite privilégie les formats #DOCX, #XLSX et #PPTX d' #Office comme #formats #par #défaut, au détriment de l' #ODF ( #Open #Document #Format)

Vous pensiez avoir trouvé une alternative sérieuse à Microsoft Office ? The Document Foundation vient de lancer une bombe dans le camp des suites bureautiques libres. Et la cible, c'est OnlyOffice.
If you rather listen to a snappy #podcast than reading a long report, check out this "Future of #News" production.
For roughly 30 minutes, Mitali Mukherjee and Nic Newman discuss how leaders in #media and #journalism respond to major #challenges in 2026 (e.g. #AI news creators or alternative #formats).
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https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/our-podcast-what-should-we-expect-journalism-2026
"LibreOffice accuse Microsoft de tricher avec un nouveau format de fichier inutilisable"
DebugBear: What is JPEG XL: do we really need another image format?. “In 2018, the Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPEG) issued a call for proposals for the ‘next-generation image compression’. Numerous proposals were submitted, but only two were selected to proceed, one by Cloudinary (FUIF) and one by Google (PIK). The two were eventually combined to create JPEG XL (often shortened to JXL), […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/02/07/what-is-jpeg-xl-do-we-really-need-another-image-format-debugbear/