[akdas]

Writing an ELF file by hand is something I did recently: https://github.com/avik-das/garlic/blob/master/recursive/elf...

To explain the format to myself and others, I also created an interactive visualization for the bytes in the file. It helps me to click on a byte, see an explanation for it and see related bytes elsewhere in the file highlighted. https://scratchpad.avikdas.com/elf-explanation/elf-explanati...

[cqqxo4zV46cp]

I’ve had such fun making interactive educational visualisations like this. My life’s work is going into an interactive simulation of the USB protocol. Unfortunately I’m yet to bang it out over a weekend.

[raarts]

Wow. Cool! I’m a CS teacher and definitely going to use this. Thanks for your work! (Anyone aware of a Windows or Mac equivalent?)

[akdas]

Thank you! My passion is teaching, and I created interactive visualizations for a CS theory class I taught: https://cstheory.avikdas.com/

If you're interested in collaborating for your classes, reach out to avik at avikdas dot com

[bruce343434]

That's an awesome interactive page! Did you write it by hand, or did you use some sort of generator/tool?

[akdas]

I wrote it all by hand :)

Lately, I've been using Svelte for interactive visualizations (see my post on using a tool called Astro with Svelte: https://avikdas.com/2023/12/30/interactive-demos-using-astro... ). But this one is all hand-written JS!

[matheusmoreira]

You and your web site are huge inspirations for me.

[akdas]

Thank you! That means a lot to me

[sunk1st]

I agree it’s very nice. I’d also like to know how it was done.

Also if you click two bytes that are in the same caption group one after another then it bugs out.

[akdas]

Thanks for the feedback. I replied in a sibling comment about how I made it.

For the bug, feel free to email me at avik at avikdas dot com if you'd like. The behavior I verified just now (for me) is that if you click one byte to highlight it, then clicking any other byte in the same group will remove the highlighting.

[ddingus]

Wow! Very nice work. This is super educational resource. Again nice work.