Let’s explore how a file-format design exercise turned into reinventing the wheel, and let’s all appreciate how lucky we are that the protocols that the internet are built on have fantastic public documents called RFCs. Designing a file format I was idly thinking about designing a good binary file format for a side project of mine called qrxfil. The project aims at QR-code-based file export: split a file in many pieces (based on content limit of QR codes) before reassembling it on the oth...
