Interactive field guides

Learn the system,
not the slogan.

These are structured lessons rather than chronological posts: each track starts with an intuition, makes the system move, and then connects the idea to real protocols and tools.

Every guide follows the same loop

  1. 01 Build an intuition
  2. 02 Make it move
  3. 03 Break it carefully
  4. 04 Inspect the real thing

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Start with networking

No prerequisites · interactive

Curriculum

A connected map, not a pile of articles

01In progress

Networking

Packets, protocols, routing, failure, and the tools that let us see the wire.

PacketsTransportTools
02Planned

Distributed systems

Replication, consensus, clocks, and what happens when a machine disappears.

03Planned

Systems

Processes, memory, scheduling, and the machinery between code and hardware.