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Abdul Rahman Sibahi
Personal blog · ar-ms.me/thoughtsprogrammingmathsystems
Abdul Rahman Sibahi's personal blog at ar-ms.me covers programming, math and systems. Since 2026, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-28, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
Commenters link the author's hex editor post about colour-coding bytes, which one commenter says inspired them to build their own hex viewer. The commenter's own post describes a --windows flag for partitioning hex output.
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Musings
What Hacker News says?
When I read this article a few days ago it inspired me to create my own hex viewer : https://ar-ms.me/thoughts/3sl-a-sweet-hex-utility/ The cool thing about it imo (outside of colors) is a `--windows` flag. Which separates the hex view into partitions: so `-w 2:-3:5` shows the first two bytes on a line, then skips three bytes, then shows the next 5 bytes on a line, then the rest of the file. Easy to use combined wit…
Comment linking /thoughts/3sl-a-sweet-hex-utility/
on “Your hex editor should color-code bytes”Submitted Writing a C Compiler, in Zig as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Dumb Introduction to Z3 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Hanging Gardens Problem (2024) as a story · 1 points
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