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New comment by xiej in "Reverse Engineering Unknown File Formats with ImHex"

xiej — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 23:43:30 +0000

I've been reverse engineering some old Minecraft Legacy Console Edition save files with ImHex and the pattern templates work pretty well, though debugging is sometimes painful (e.g. reading runtime-sized arrays can just overflow the file and error without showing previously decoded structs). Great tool though. LLMs are, of course, scarily good at reverse engineering and spotting patterns that take me way too much effort to spot.

New comment by xiej in "Parallel Agents in Zed"

xiej — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 19:02:58 +0000

ah I forgot a word, I meant the ui icon size. If I bump up the ui font size so that I can distinguish the icons apart on my large monitor, the ui text becomes comically large.

I do use Zed without AI features, it's just a bit of a disappointment (though understandable) since it was originally marketed as just a nice speedy editor.

New comment by xiej in "Parallel agents in Zed"

xiej — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 18:43:05 +0000

Funny how Zed's tagline is

  Love your editor again
  Zed is a minimal code editor crafted for speed and collaboration with humans and AI.

At home, I don't use any AI when coding, to keep my brain sharp. But it's clear that Zed's focus is on AI integration because that's where the money's going (seriously, where is the setting to have a different ui icon size vs ui font size). Is there any editor still being being developed and focusing on the experience of coding by hand?

New comment by xiej in "APT Rust requirement raises questions"

xiej — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 20:49:16 +0000

There are only a few common keywords. Types are PascalCase. Variables are snake_case. constants are SCREAMING_CASE. macros have an exclamation point !