Just Open Sourced: Hex Fiend, a fast and clever hex editor for Mac OS X

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I remember this! The author wrote a hilarious/insightful blog post about the development cycle. I'll see if I can dig it up and submit it.

edit: cool, it was already submitted. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=467402 Check it out :]

If by "just" you mean years ago, sure.

I spent some time last year writing an advanced data analysis plugin for it, but abandoned it when I lost the need for it. Would anyone be interested in a Hex Fiend 010-editor-style data overlaying plugin?

I've been using it for years, but I guess I never had to download it again or update it, so I never noticed that he open sourced it in 2006.

I guess what's new is that it's usefully open source -- you can embed it as a view in your Cocoa app. Would be nice to see it built in to Textmate...

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