Reference charts
A reference sheet promises completeness within its subject. Every letter, every status code, every prefix, every phase — not a selection of the handy ones. That promise is what makes it worth wall space: you can stop wondering whether the answer is on there.
It is the largest kind in the catalogue and it runs across most of the subjects — alphabets and codes, the geography of instruments, the tea and coffee sheets, units and paper formats, the planets and the Moon.
Because they are dense, they reward the larger print. A3 is usually the right call for anything read from more than a metre away.
THE DMX512 PROTOCOL
512 channels down one serial wire, and why a full universe cannot refresh faster than 44 times a second
EAN-13
how thirteen digits become 95 modules of bars and spaces
A NUMBER IN 32 BITS
sign, exponent and significand: what actually sits in a float and what does not
FLOWCHART SYMBOLS
10 shapes, and one algorithm drawn with them
GO vs RUST
seven questions, the same to both, and the document each answer is written in
HTTP METHODS · 2026
ten methods per RFC 9110, 5789 and 10008: which are safe, which are idempotent, which can be retried
HTTP STATUS CODES
five classes · twenty codes you meet every day
SPECIAL-PURPOSE IPv4 BLOCKS
14 blocks that belong to no host on the internet — 13.8 % of the address space, of which exactly one eighth is multicast and reserved
IPv6 ADDRESS NOTATION
eight groups of sixteen bits, the double colon, and one canonical spelling out of thousands
JAVASCRIPT vs GO
seven questions, the same to both, and the document each answer is written in
JAVASCRIPT vs RUST
seven questions, the same to both, and the document each answer is written in
KANBAN
the board, the limit on work in progress, and the four metrics that measure flow