Why do domain names sometimes end with a dot?Hello! When I was writing the zine How DNS Works
09/12/22
How to send raw network packets in Python with tun/tapHello!
09/06/22
A way to categorize debugging skillsHello! I’ve been working on writing a zine about debugging for a while (here’s an early draft of the table of contents).
08/30/22
A toy remote login serverHello! The other day we talked about what happened when you press a key in your terminal.
07/28/22
What happens when you press a key in your terminal?I’ve been confused about what’s going on with terminals for a long time.
07/20/22
Monitoring tiny web servicesHello! I’ve started to run a few more servers recently
07/09/22
Notes on running containers with bubblewrapHello! About a year ago I got mad about Docker container startup time. This was
06/28/22
sqlite-utils: a nice way to import data into SQLite for analysisHello! This is a quick post about a nice tool I found recently called sqlite-utils, from the tools category.
05/12/22
Pages that didn't make it into "How DNS Works"Hello! A couple weeks ago I released a new zine called How DNS Works.
05/10/22
New zine: How DNS Works!Hello! On Thursday we released a new zine about one of my favourite computer systems: DNS!
04/26/22
A list of new(ish) command line toolsHello! Today I asked on twitter about newer
04/12/22
Implementing a toy version of TLS 1.3Hello! Recently I’ve been thinking about how I find it fun to learn computer
03/23/22
Celebrate tiny learning milestonesHello! Today I want to talk about – how do you know you’re getting better at programming?
03/13/22
How to use undocumented web APIsHello! A couple of days I wrote about tiny personal programs, and I mentioned that
03/10/22
Some tiny personal programs I've writtenI was talking to a friend last summer about what resources might be helpful for
03/08/22
Some things about getaddrinfo that surprised meHello! Here are some things you may or may not have noticed about DNS:
02/23/22
Things that used to be hard and are now easyHello! I was talking to some friends the other day about the types of
02/20/22
The multiple meanings of "nameserver" and "DNS resolver"I’m working on a zine about DNS right now, so I’ve been thinking about DNS
02/14/22
A toy DNS resolverHello! I wrote a comic last week called “life of a DNS query” that explains how
02/01/22
Reasons for servers to support IPv6I’ve been having a hard time understanding IPv6. On one hand, the basics initially seem pretty