Dump a Code Repository as a Text File, For Easier Sharing with Chatbots

Some LLMs (Large Language Models) can act as useful programming assistants when provided with a project’s source code, but experimenting with this can get a little tricky if the chatbot …read more Continue reading Dump a Code Repository as a Text File, For Easier Sharing with Chatbots

Gawking Hex Files

Last time I talked about how to use AWK (or, more probably the GNU AWK known as GAWK) to process text files. You might be thinking: why did I care? Hardware hackers don’t need text files, right? Maybe they do. I want to talk about a few common cases where AWK can process things that are more up the hardware hacker’s alley.

The Simple: Data Logs

If you look around, a lot of data loggers and test instruments do produce text files. If you have a text file from your scope or a program like SIGROK, it is simple to …read more

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