Registered Hex Offender
It’s 2 AM, and I should be going to bed after a hard day’s night, but I just discovered something in NetNewsWire that I have to share (even though it’s probably old news by now): my friend Peter Ammon finally got to release his long-awaited hex editor for OS X, Hex Fiend.
Peter started working on Hex Fiend back when he and I worked together in OS X QA, and he approached the project of filling the OS X hex editor gap (a gap I definitely can vouch for, having worked extensively with frustrating hex editors to develop PodWorks) with the kind of megalomania readers of his weblog have come to expect. Not content to simply develop a nice tool for the job, Peter set about creating an editor that allows users to edit arbitrarily large files and do so using an NSTextView. An impressive feat by any standard.
Here’s hoping some of Peter’s work here eventually finds its way into the Cocoa text system!