ImHex – A Hex Editor for Reverse Engineers and Programmers

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  • ImHex

    🔍 A Hex Editor for Reverse Engineers, Programmers and people who value their retinas when working at 3 AM.

  • They claim [1] the text rendering is "pixel-perfect" now in the default font. But anti-aliasing is on by default for custom-chosen fonts, maybe one of those will work better?

    [1] https://github.com/WerWolv/ImHex/issues/431

  • rizin

    UNIX-like reverse engineering framework and command-line toolset.

  • We have a FAQ[1] with this covered. Few examples of concrete steps are in the blog: changing the buildsystem and dependency handling [2], projects saving and loading [3], commands parsing [4], new intermediate language [5]. We also switched to using IDA's FLIRT signatures and added their generation. Types parsing and model was rewritten from scratch as well.

    [1] https://rizin.re/posts/faq/

    [2] https://rizin.re/posts/why-meson/

    [3] https://rizin.re/posts/introducing-projects/

    [4] https://rizin.re/posts/rzshell/

    [5] https://github.com/rizinorg/rizin/blob/dev/doc/rzil.md

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  • imgui

    Dear ImGui: Bloat-free Graphical User interface for C++ with minimal dependencies

  • The default ImGui rasterizer (imstb_truetype) is rubbish. The new rasterizer (imgui_freetype) should be used instead.

    https://github.com/ocornut/imgui/tree/master/misc/freetype

  • imnodes

    A small, dependency-free node editor for dear imgui

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