Twitter summary from 2020 so far
Hello! I post a lot of things on Twitter and it’s basically impossible for anyone except me to keep with them, so I thought I’d write a summary of everything I posted on Twitter in 2020 so far.
A lot of these things I eventually end up writing about on the blog, but some of them I don’t, so I figured I’d just put everything in one place.
I’ve made most of the links to non-Twitter websites.
comics
Let’s start with the comics, since that’s a lot of what I write there.
debugging
These are from a debugging zine I’m still trying to finish. (https://wizardzines.com/zines/bugs/)
- 2020-05-28: learn one thing at a time
- 2020-05-26: share your debugging stories 🐛
- 2020-05-26: know your spy tools
- 2020-05-22: investigate bugs together
- 2020-05-21: let your bugs teach you
- 2020-05-05: on reproducing your bugs
- 2020-05-04: debugging tips: check your assumptions
- 2020-05-04: writing code with bugs is normal
- 2020-04-27: if you understand a bug, you can fix it
- 2020-04-19: debugging is hard. take breaks.
- 2020-04-13: when debugging, your attitude matters
writing tips
- 2020-05-19: how I write: highlight the main ideas
- 2020-05-18: how I write: always write for 1 person
computer science
- 2020-05-07: hash functions are amazing
- 2020-05-06: binary search
linux/systems
These are part of a potential sequel to bite size linux
- 2020-05-27: command line arguments
- 2020-01-28: network protocols
- 2020-01-22: clock_gettime: track CPU usage
- 2020-01-18: what’s a shell?
- 2020-01-16: libc
- 2020-01-15: terminals
- 2020-01-13: inodes & hard links
- 2020-01-12: assembly
- 2020-01-10: CPU scheduling
- 2020-01-08: terminal escape codes (tweet)
- 2020-01-07: file locking (tweet)
miscellaneous
- 2020-03-09: pull request tip: ask when you’re unsure! (tweet)
- 2020-01-09: IMSI catchers (fake cellphone towers). with @rival_elf (tweet)
containers
These mostly got published as How Containers Work. As usual the final zine was edited a lot and some of these didn’t make it into the zine at all or I significantly rewrote the version in the zine.
- 2020-04-13: how containers work: user namespaces (tweet)
- 2020-04-09: how containers work: PID namespaces (tweet)
- 2020-03-18: how containers work: namespaces
- 2020-03-17: container networking (tweet)
- 2020-03-16: container layers (tweet)
- 2020-03-11: containers vs VMs (tweet)
- 2020-03-10: the Linux kernel features that make containers work (tweet)
- 2020-03-10: container images: package every single dependency together (tweet)
- 2020-03-09: how containers work: chroot (tweet)
- 2020-03-05: containers are processes (tweet)
- 2020-02-26: container networking (tweet)
- 2020-02-20: containers aren’t magic
- 2020-02-19: container fun: how to make a namespace (tweet)
- 2020-02-18: virtual machines (tweet)
- 2020-02-13: play with your containers (tweet)
- 2020-02-11: how containers work: seccomp-bpf
- 2020-02-10: container registries (tweet)
- 2020-02-06: what’s a container? (tweet)
- 2020-02-03: why containers?
- 2020-01-14: how containers work: capabilities
- 2020-01-06: how containers work: cgroups
questions
A bunch of work on https://questions.wizardzines.com.
- 2020-07-08: questions about DNS
- 2020-07-06: questions about IPv4
- 2020-06-29: questions about event loops / asynchronous programming
- 2020-06-24: questions about unix processes
- 2020-06-21: questions about http status codes
- 2020-06-20: questions about content delivery networks
- 2020-06-19: questions about CORS
- 2020-06-18: questions about TLS certificates
- 2020-06-17: questions about git branches
- 2020-06-16: questions about git commits
- 2020-06-15: questions about HTTP request headers:
- 2020-06-13: questions about sockets
- 2020-06-10: questions about UDP
flashcards
A bunch of earlier work on https://flashcards.wizardzines.com. I came up with a direction for this project I liked better (https://questions.wizardzines.com) and won’t be updating that site further.
- 2020-04-30: some flashcards on HTTP
- 2020-04-21: made some flashcards on SQL
- 2020-04-20: some new flashcards: reverse proxies! (like nginx/haproxy)
- 2020-03-21: some new flashcards are up, this time on TLS!
- 2020-03-16: made some DNS flashcards today in the continuing flashcards experiment
- 2020-03-06: more flashcard experiments: here are 15 linux flashcards on memory & signals & sockets & a few other things
- 2020-02-28: more learning game experiments: here’s a tiny container flashcards thing I made on a plane this week
videos
At the beginning of the year I did some experiments in making screencasts. It was fun but I haven’t done more so far. These are all links to youtube videos.
- 2020-02-17: a quick video on http status codes
- 2020-02-09: some demos of how to make HTTP requests with curl
- 2020-02-04: how DNS works
- 2020-01-01: euclid’s algorithm: a fast way to find the greatest common factor
threads
I’m not a big Twitter thread person (I’d usually rather write a blog post) but I wrote one thread so far this year about how I think about the zine business:
- 2020-02-18: a big thing I try to do with my zines is stick to fundamentals… (tweet)
zine announcements
- 2020-04-24: How Containers Work! announcement (tweet)
- 2020-01-31: Become a SELECT Star! announcement (tweet)
giveaways
I know that $12 USD is a lot of money for some people, especially folks in countries like Brazil with a weaker currency relative to the US dollar. So periodically I do giveaways on Twitter so that people who can’t afford $12 can get the zines. I aim to give away 1 copy for every sale.
- 2020-07-10: 1000 copies of How Containers Work (tweet)
- 2020-05-05: 1000 copies of Bite Size Linux (tweet)
- 2020-04-28: 700 copies of How Containers Work (tweet)
- 2020-04-26: 500 copies of How Containers Work (tweet)
- 2020-03-29: 1500 copies of Bite Size Linux (tweet)
- 2020-03-18: 1200 copies of Bite Size Command Line (tweet)
- 2020-02-08: 500 more copies of Become a SELECT Star (tweet)
- 2020-02-06: 500 copies of Become a SELECT Star (tweet)
polls
very occasionally I ask people questions:
- 2020-03-10: what problems have you run into in practice when using containers? I’m trying to put together a list of container downsides for the zine I’m writing. (tweet)
- 2020-02-11: what are some man pages related to containers? (tweet)
that’s all!
I’ve been thinking about trying to do a monthly summary here of what I’m writing on Twitter. We’ll see if that happens!