byte.glass

Tools for seeing bytes clearly.

Binary doesn't have to look like a wall of hex or slip past you disguised as text. These projects each pick a small seam in how we look at data and pry it open a little.

Projects

blob

A Shortcuts toolkit for binary data on iOS. Type-safe encoding, a suite of read/print actions, and a compact Braille-based base-256 format that makes bytes visibly distinct from any other string you'll paste into a shortcut.

Available on the App Store.

hmac.sh

HMAC-SHA256 as a URL. The path is the derivation chain: /{key}/{data}/…, computed at the CloudFront edge, each digest keying the next step. Results redirect to /{digest} — append another segment to keep deriving.

swift-base256-blob

blob's base-256 Braille codec as a standalone Swift package — one character per byte, a byte's hex nibbles as the two dot columns of its cell. The core has no dependencies, not even Foundation.