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There are a couple I have in mind. Like many techies, I am a huge fan of RSS for content distribution and XMPP for federated communication.

The really niche one I like is S-expressions as a data format and configuration in place of json, yaml, toml, etc.

I am a big fan of Plaintext formats, although I wish markdown had a few more features like tables.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Alright, but seriously: IPv6.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

Oddly having several variants rather than a standard despite "regular" being in the name: everyone I work with eschews regex but after finally taking the time to learn more than just the basics of it a few years ago I find it so incredibly useful almost daily.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I wish there was a good open standard for task management or todo list.

I know there's todo.txt, but it lacks features like dependent tasks, and overall the plain text format limits features and implementations.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I think CalDAV (which uses the iCalendar format) may be the closest thing. It covers calendar items, obviously, but also task and journal items.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (4 children)

The term open-standard does not cut it. People should start using "publicly available and sharable" instead (maybe there is a better name for it).

ISO standards for example are technically "open". But how relevant is that to a curious individual developer when anything you need to implement would require access to multiple "open" standards, each coming with a (monetary) price, with some extra shenanigans ^[archived]^ on top.

IETF standards however are actually truly open, as in publicly available and sharable.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (10 children)

Unicode editors for notes/todo formats, making markup unnecessary.

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