Forrest Cook (@handle.invalid)

New post about a small standalone utility that I've been using to manually convert varints since the Winhex data interpreter doesn't do it for me. It's entirely possible there's another better utility out there, but it was faster for me to make this than continue to figure out how to search for it.

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To Varint or not to varint While working through the potato chat BLOBs, I was introduced to the varint concept. Effectively, a varint is a flexible way to communicate positive integers through one or more byte of data, dynamically. Instead of an application always requiring an integer use *one* byte of data to convey a number (and thus being limited from 0-255), or the application always requiring some larger number of bytes to convey a larger span of integers, a varint can be used. http://forrestcook.net/2025/04/20/to-varint-or-not-to-varint/