farbfeld

farbfeld is a lossless image format which is easy to parse, pipe and
compress.
It has the following format:

| Bytes | Description |
|--------|------------------------------------------------------------|
| 8 | "farbfeld" magic value |
| 4 | 32-Bit BE unsigned integer (width) |
| 4 | 32-Bit BE unsigned integer (height) |
| [2222] | 4⋅16-Bit BE unsigned integers [RGBA] / pixel, row-aligned |

http://tools.suckless.org/farbfeld/

>>47
Suckless is taking the bloat out of abstract programming styles, and reapplying it to process composition.

Programming environments can at least optimize away abstraction boundaries & overhead. OS processes can't, without violating a ton of constraints. It is always more bloated, slower, and configuration-heavy (== error prone) to use a bunch of different independent tools to solve a problem than it is to use a monolithic one that does what you need, even though any individual independent tool might be light-weight.

(same goes to you, Cudder, now that you're here)