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Understanding Network Devices

Jan 28 · 3 min read · How the internet reaches your home or office Before we dive into devices, let’s get a high-level view. Imagine the internet as a highway: Your home or office is a house at the end of the street Information travels in packets like cars on the highwa...

How DNS Resolution Works

Jan 28 · 4 min read · DNS: the internet’s phonebook (quick recap) The internet runs on numbers.Humans remember names. DNS (Domain Name System) exists to solve this gap. When you type google.com in a browser, DNS helps translate that name into an IP address so your compute...

Getting Started with cURL

Jan 28 · 3 min read · How do programs talk to servers? Before we talk about cURL, let’s understand one simple thing: what is a server? A server is just a computer somewhere on the internet that waits for requests and sends back responses. Your browser talks to a server t...

DNS Record Types Explained

Jan 28 · 4 min read · DNS Made Simple: A Beginner-Friendly Guide How does a browser know where a website lives? When you type www.example.com into your browser and press Enter, something almost magical happens. Within seconds, the website appears on your screen. But here’...

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Why Version Control Exists: The Pendrive Problem

Jan 11 · 3 min read · Before Git, GitHub, and modern collaboration tools became standard, software development relied on surprisingly fragile workflows. Developers didn’t always have branches, commits, or pull requests. Instead, they had pendrives, emails, and folders nam...