I'm kind of in the mood to implement some CCSDS standards. "Standard Formatted Data Units" (never a more generic name) is a classic, and it even comes with an honestly extremely well-written tutorial (i didn't even exist properly when this was published!). I haven't had the chance to do Rust in a while, soo.... screw it, let's write some SFDU-processing Rust.
(if you have another favorite standard please shout at me. not RFC 854 or RFC 1143 though, i have bigger plans for telnet)
oh no i've fallen down a rabbit hole of downloading whole Voyager archives and marveling at how much effort they put into making their data legible in the long term
not a bad outcome for an evening impulse tbh