Alexander Hübert
@huebi.dev
Independent Developer & Digital Forensics Analyst who loves the open web, file formats, and building on Linux with Rust. https://huebi.dev
the next "how the heck" piece is live! it's all about image files and the tricks they use to save space, from information theory to how our eyes work :)
How The Heck Does JPEG Work? (An Interactive Exploration)
An interactive exploration of how JPEG works: from the Discrete Cosine Transform to quantization and Huffman coding.
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Making progress with the FileForensics app. Timelineview and a timezone switch is implemented. Further working on a Diffview and a Converter for common formats like encodings/timestamps.
Well, it finally happened! After 9 years of Unity dominance, Godot was the most used game engine for GMTK Game Jam 2026 submissions. 🤖 Godot - 47% 🎮 Unity - 34% 🛠️GameMaker - 5% 🚀 Unreal Engine - 3% ✨ Other - 11%
Graphview node module implemented to visualize and identify identical occurrences.
In a sane world there would be International Arrest Warrants naming every Oil, Gas & Coal billionaire for climate crimes against humanity
Europeans after hearing they can’t use Anthropic’s AI models anymore.
More perfection from @3blue1brown.com “Reinventing entropy: compression and intelligence“: youtu.be/l6DKRf-fAAM?.... What a treasure Grant is.
Reinventing Entropy | Compression & Intelligence Part 1
YouTube video by 3Blue1Brown
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Sprinkled a little color over the Hexviewer and added a data inspector with a byte distribution histogram. Byte peekers can have nice things too.
Here's an easter egg in the new Lego Batman that I think all of you will REALLY appreciate. It's so good, I had to make a video.
Nice map with animal emblems used by sport clubs: ugoarbieu.shinyapps.io/TheWildLeagu...
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If you ever needed proof that Microsoft executives are literal morons.... there it is. This after they rolled out and force-fed Copilot to all Windows users and literally nobody used it. This time will be better....
Jason Koebler@jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 3mo agoNew: Internal Microsoft planning documents say the company's goal is to "make people addicted" to its new Scout AI assistant www.404media.co/microsoft-wa...
Great article by Arun on the first EV Ferrari. The perfect car for tech bros to park right beside their Cybertrucks.
Arun Venkatesan@arun.is · 3mo agoI wonder if the Ferrari Luce could have ended up looking any other way. arun.is/blog/ferrari...
Implemented a Viewer module for common image formats (also for: CSVs/SQLite/LevelDB) and a YARA module.
Watching 24h of Nürburgring. Diving into Clojure/ClojureDart. Having fun 🍻
Migrated from GitHub to Codeberg 🥳 That was easy! codeberg.org/huebicode/le...
leveldb-parser
Master's thesis project, which involves developing a parser for LevelDB.
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POV: you are downloading npm packages in 2026
Great documentary! Will definitely dive into Clojure. youtu.be/Y24vK_QDLFg
How one programmer's pet project changed how we think about software
YouTube video by CultRepo
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Deepfakes are everywhere, but digital forensics investigators are fighting back. Learn more: https://scim.ag/42dMPBg
Still working diligently on my FileForensics app. Pane grids are implemented. Scanning for file signatures/metadata too. Working with iced.rs is similar to my experience with Rust. It felt a bit strange at first, but the more you work with it, the more you realize how well-thought-out it is ❤️
