| Human Config | TOML | It avoids YAML's complexity and ambiguity while still supporting comments
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| Code Config | JSON | Every language and tool supports it, AI are native at it too
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| Generic Digest | Douglas Crockford's Base32 | It is case-insensitive and can be used safely in paths and similar places.
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| Hash | SHA-3 | Keccak is the pre-standard version, so SHA-3 is the clearer name to depend on. SHA-1 is legacy
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| Compression for Cold Storage | xz -9 | It compresses much better than most practical alternatives
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| Compression for realtime | zstd | It has a good balance of speed, compression ratio, and usability
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| Archive for Cold Storage | tar | It is still the simplest choice when the archive will be compressed as a whole.
nar would have been better, but no one supports it
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| micro DB | sqlite | Are comments really needed?
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