CSS Selectors 101 : Targeting Elements with Precision
Jan 31 · 3 min read · Introduction - When you write CSS you are not styling the entire webpage at once. You are choosing which elements should get which styles.That choice is made using CSS selectors. If HTML gives structure to a page, CSS selectors decide where styles ap...
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Understanding HTML Tags and Elements
Jan 31 · 3 min read · Introduction - When you open any website what you see on the screen is the result of many things working together. But at the base of it all is HTML. HTML is not about design or logic. It is about structure.If a webpage were a human body HTML would b...
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How a Browser Works : A Beginner Friendly Guide to Browser Internals
Jan 31 · 5 min read · Introduction - Have you ever typed a website address pressed Enter and wondered that “What actually happens now?” We use browsers every day but most of the time we think of them as just tools that “open websites.”In reality a browser is a complex pie...
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Emmet for HTML: A Beginner’s Guide to Writing Faster Markup
Jan 31 · 3 min read · Introduction - If you have ever written HTML by hand you know how repetitive it can feel. You type an opening tag then a closing tag then you repeat the same thing again and again. It works but it’s slow. Emmet exists to solve exactly this problem. W...
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TCP Working: 3-Way Handshake & Reliable Communication
Jan 31 · 4 min read · Introduction - Imagine that someone are having a phone call where both people start talking at random things some words get lost and no one confirms what they heard. The conversation would quickly fall apart. Sending data over the internet has the sa...
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TCP vs UDP : When to Use What and How TCP Relates to HTTP
Jan 31 · 4 min read · Introduction - The internet looks simple on the surface you click a link, a video plays, a message gets delivered. But underneath all of that the internet needs rules to move data from one computer to another.Without rules, data would arrive late, in...
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Getting Started with cURL
Jan 30 · 3 min read · Introduction - Before we talk about cURL, let us take one small step back. Every time you open a website, your browser is talking to a server somewhere on the internet. The server listens, understands the request, and sends something back a webpage, ...
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