Modern UI designers seem to forget trackball users exist. Got to make those scrollbars more visible and easier to manipulate, and don't assume everyone has a scroll wheel

I think the most computer 'hacker' thing I did was reverse engineering a communication protocol for an industrial motion controller to unlock hidden commands used exclusively by their app

Turned out they just created a private channel by adding a fixed 127 byte offset to the ASCII values on the controller which just needed to be subtracted to be read on the PC side. User commands are in the usual 128 byte ASCII range and a private upper one between 128-256, providing two channels while keeping things in the ubyte format. It's quite clever, since you can simply check if a byte is >127 to determine which channel the data belongs to and putting it into the correct buffer without requiring another port. This strat might not work well for pure binary data, but it works for ASCII text

#electronics

@eamon

What would be nice are auto-populating snippets based on static analysis to reduce typing. All the fuzzy logic could be handled with markov chains