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Screenshot of a Twitter post by @sirocyl: “what’s a good hex editor - preferably for windows - for annotating structs and stuff? I’d normally use audacity but I figure there’s gotta be something better for this.” Attached to the post is a screenshot of Audacity showing two tracks, one of a binary file being interpreted as audio, zoomed-in at the sample level where individual bits can be edited, and a label track with labels such as “IMGDATA_MAGIC”, “IMGDATA_FILE_NAME (1)”, “Width (1)” and “Height (1)”.
Blender can probably do that
The owner of x did say he wants to make it the everything app, but im not sure its there yet
It’s really not bad at video editing, though surprisingly it has issues with keyframing. KDEnlive is currently king
Rate my setup:
Video Editing: Blender 2.7
Audio Editing: Shotcut
Text Editor: Firefox
Scripting Environment: TES III Morrowind Construction Set
Image Viewer: ascii-image-viewer (terminal)
Password Database: Windows Notepad with Wine Browser: Steam OverlayThey may steal your computer but they will never find your files
I hear the video editing part of blender is actually decent for casual use.
Hell the latest versions of Blender actually make it a treat to use.
The only thing I miss is adjusting playback speed in the editor for editing.
what do you use for cad? minecraft?
Vim
If you don’t mind using openscad with it, it actually works quite well. 😁
I built myself a toolmaking script with openjscad. So it was kinda my primary CAD for a few weeks anyway.
Ok then, cad by printing a model with octoprint, by pressing the move buttons no custok gcode.
Good idea 👀
When I was a kid wanting to get into YouTube (all evidence of which has been scorched off the face of the earth), Blender wasn’t actually that bad of a video editor.
Gonna print myself a shirt with these
Pad: left
Wait … Does this work?!
Yeah, you can just import some random file as raw data and then tell it how to interpret it. I would recommend importing as 8 bit mono.
ImHex (https://github.com/WerWolv/ImHex) is the answer but I fear showing OOP that program might lock them into hyperfixation until they starve.
ImHex is amazing. I use it as a save game editor mostly.
I’ve gotten stuck in the hyperfixation of building pattern files for old video game save files to the point where I’m vibrating from low blood sugar after not eating for 10 hours a few times now… That and when trying to figure out the save logic in ghidra when the game is using some ancient version of C
Having a complete pattern file for a game save is such a good feeling, able to open the file, apply the pattern, and then browse the data in a tree structure to easily do save editing etc.
You have to check it out though! There’s so much there, including some possibilities for automating OPs workflow. This sort of stuff is outside my wheelhouse but it’s got automated patern detection, options to run a fancy disassembler that does the job for you. And the UI is so slick! I just leave it up as eye candy sometimes 🤓
I don’t get it, I am tired l, pls enlighten me
ImHex is a very good hex editor. My “joke” if you can call it that, was that the type of person who’d use audacity as a hex editor would be so enamored by the vast array of features in ImHex they’d never stop playing around to it to the point of starving because they’d forget to eat.
Let me sing you the executable of my people.
I once played an executable and it sounded like some breakcore
Notepad++ it has what windows lacks
notepad++ lets you do hex editing too? that’s pretty cool!
Yep, it’s an official plugin!
Notepad++ can work as a full IDE with the right plugins at this point lol
ed could work as an IDE too
I did use it as full IDE with some plugins for some months
Unironically I use it in my glitchart pipeline lol
Speaking of Audacity, they’ve come a long way, and recently released version 4. It’s moving into more pro looking DAW territory. Reaper better watch out 😅
Yeah but the problem is from i understand it lacks exactly the features that would make it a daw. If it had midi and automation i think i could actually use it as a daw. I might check it out one day but they only had version 4 as an appimage last time i checked.
I was of course joking. One of the main guys at Cockos that develops Reaper is Justin Frankel the man behind Gnutella, Winamp and Shoutcast and a few other fun projects, so I’d expect them to still be ahead for a little while.
Check out the videos of their lead tentacrul. He also did the Muse score redesign. As I understood, they are moving slowly as the codebase is a mess. First they cleaned up the toolbars, changed to non destructive clip editing then switching to qt improved it to the state it is now in. As I understood it, the audio engine is shit so they plan to rip it out and redo it. Midi support is a highly requested feature and I think it will definitely come, but only after everything that’s Audacity is used for is the best it can be. Then the DAW features will be build (they already include tempo, time signaturea etc)
Oh wow i will watch it and that sounds very good. To be honest even if they only add midi i would already use it for some tasks over other daws but i understand that its a lot of work to fix up such an old codebase. Still, maybe in the next few years we will get a linux daw that isnt a chore to use.
emacs
M-x hexl-mode
Nerds: Well akshully . . .
Musical Nerds: AUDACITY!
On Linux, I’d use Okteta: https://apps.kde.org/okteta/
for annotating, just print on paper and use a pencil
xxd + $EDITOR
