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Darius Kazemi

The other thing I learned today is I truly love when my job requires me to bust out a hex editor to inspect file encodings

20 Dec 2023 at 18:06 | Open on friend.camp
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allison

@darius i have like three different gameboy roms and save dumps open in hex editors right now and it makes me feel like an important hacker 💻

20 Dec 2023 at 18:14 | Open on friend.camp
Darius Kazemi

@aparrish all I want is to manually count offsets and go "oh that's A7 and I was expecting A6! Interesting...."

20 Dec 2023 at 18:16 | Open on friend.camp
Martyn

@darius my first programming job required me to read files from an acorn on a DOS/windows system. Shifting bits, reading strings backwards and doing actual mantissa and exponent maths. Those were the days...

20 Dec 2023 at 18:38 | Open on toot.martyn.berlin
jmac

@darius Absolutely the best moments of my day job are when I see the database I’m documenting do something really weird, and I start *digging*.

20 Dec 2023 at 19:44 | Open on masto.nyc
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