Link: Filenames.WTF

February 5, 2012

In Filenames.WTF, Daniel Rutter runs down the reasons first why paying attention to file extensions is ridiculous, and then the reasons why it's still the best solution to the problem that we have. Spoiler: it's because people have spent decades creating file formats that suck.

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