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CSS Selectors 101: How CSS Knows What to Style

Mar 13 · 6 min read · When I first started writing CSS, I just copied whatever I saw online. p { color: blue; } — okay, that makes paragraphs blue. Fine. But I did not actually understand why that worked. How does CSS know

How a Browser Works: A Beginner-Friendly Guide to Browser Internals

Mar 13 · 7 min read · Every day, you type a URL into your browser and a webpage appears. It feels instant. It feels simple. It is not. A browser is one of the most complex pieces of software on your computer. And most peop

Why Version Control Exists: The Pendrive Problem

Mar 13 · 5 min read · Before I understood what version control was, I thought it was just something senior developers used to feel organised. Like a fancy folder system. I was wrong. Version control exists because of a ver

TCP vs UDP: When to Use What, and How TCP Relates to HTTP

Mar 13 · 5 min read · When you send data across a network, it does not travel as one clean block. It gets broken into small units called packets and sent across multiple routes. The problem is — networks are unreliable by

How DNS Resolution Works

Mar 13 · 4 min read · Whenever you type in google.com in your browser and hit enter, a lot of things happen behind the scenes while the site loads. Your computer translates the domain name into an IP address which machines