Bite-sized brain dump of my curiosities updated weekly.
I discovered TLDR pages as a man page alternative. More readable, approachable, and illustrates example scenarios. But I loved them for conciseness.
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Explore ways to get performance gains in database queries where you do not need to be accurate. A brief explanation on how to leverage EXPLAIN statement.
Learn about the impact of offset or skip in your database queries and how you can make easy performance gains by avoiding it.
This atomic briefly covers the idea of what Address Resolution Protocol is and how it makes the internet possible.
Learn about how IP addresses are structured, and how to identify if two IPs are on the same network with the help of subnets.
Deriving the real maximum packet size for a TCP connection is simple if you follow the layers of the TCP/IP model. Learn about the max TCP packet size.
In an attempt to understand how things work. My take on the path of becoming a better developer by learning how things work by Julia Evans.
A short guide to delete local merged branches in git and setting up alias for doing it within seconds.
