i don't see enough people with one of the best tool improvements i've ever made for reverse engineering, so i had to write a blog post about it!

https://simonomi.dev/blog/color-code-your-bytes/

your hex editor should color-code bytes

@simonomi Interesting! I'll have to try doing hexdumps with a full colour spectrum.

I did find it was a lot easier to scrub through unknown files after making a hexdump tool with defaults that worked for me (colours for 00/FF + ASCII range + everything else, symbol column using CP437). I also made a tool for byte histograms, which provides pretty good results for discerning compressed files from encrypted