Category: how-things-work
★ How to trick a neural network into thinking a panda is a vulture ★ Why you should understand (a little) about TCP How the locate command works (and let's write a faster version in one minute!) ★ How gzip uses Huffman coding ★ Diving into concurrency: trying out mutexes and atomics How does SQLite work? Part 2: btrees! (or: disk seeks are slow don't do them!) ★ How does SQLite work? Part 1: pages! How is a binary executable organized? Let's explore it! ★ What happens if you write a TCP stack in Python? Day 40: 12 things I learned today about linkers. ★ Day 20: Traceroute in 15 lines of code using Scapy