Besides which, the contents boiled down to “learn your shit”. Good “one weird trick” for most occasions!
It actually made for a good enough read, but links and titles are supposed to set up expectations. I was expecting something along bitmap magic and representation in hex.
One of the very first C programs I ever wrote (in 1984) was called “hx.c”, and its job was, basically, to dump a stream as hex bytes, or dump hex bytes back to a stream. This was before the ‘tr’ tool was introduced (in 1988), and as a result I’ve had this code with me ever since. :).
So I was a bit disappointed that the answer to “how can I improve my Hex life” was, simply “write a Unix shell script that will do all the heavy lifting”, lol ..
I really hate this type of clickbait link. If the “one weird trick” is really that useful, you can spend the time to come up with a descriptive title.
Besides which, the contents boiled down to “learn your shit”. Good “one weird trick” for most occasions!
It actually made for a good enough read, but links and titles are supposed to set up expectations. I was expecting something along bitmap magic and representation in hex.
I thought the title was pretty clever. It’s clearly about hex editing and I liked the “hex life” pun. It read to me as a parody of clickbait titles.
definitely at the dad pun end of funny…
aka the best end of funny
One of the very first C programs I ever wrote (in 1984) was called “hx.c”, and its job was, basically, to dump a stream as hex bytes, or dump hex bytes back to a stream. This was before the ‘tr’ tool was introduced (in 1988), and as a result I’ve had this code with me ever since. :).
So I was a bit disappointed that the answer to “how can I improve my Hex life” was, simply “write a Unix shell script that will do all the heavy lifting”, lol ..