Opinion In Search of a Better Shell These days I find myself searching for a better shell. Before I dive into what I want specifically, I would first like to spend a minute complaining about bash and explaining why the
Backup server Let's build a backup system I have a database that I want to back up. It took me 3 days of work to assemble this database, and I'm not willing to repeat that work if the server dies.
Opinion The Language Exchange Problem URL parsing is a pretty common problem. The rules for it are pretty well established, and we have around 600 libraries to choose from, and that's just in the node.js ecosystem. If
Bittorrent client BitTorrent Client: Talking to Trackers Last post, we wrote a parser for bencoded torrent files. Now we need to connect to a tracker so we can arrange a connection to other peers.Before we jump into that though,
Bittorrent client BitTorrent Client: The torrent file The starting point of a BitTorrent client is the torrent file. This file tells the client about the file it is about to download. It has a description of where the client can
Bittorrent client Let's Build a BitTorrent Client In this post we are going to explore how to build a BitTorrent client. BitTorrent is a protocol that supports file distribution without official "clients" and "servers". It has a lot of cool
Opinion The Types of Code It's easy to think that "code is code" and that the rules are always the same when you write it. It should be reusable; it should use clean, clear functions; it it should
Opinion Becoming a Grand Master Information Mage Programming is a recursively deep field. From the outside it looks like it should be just one set of skills, but it's actually layers of skills, each layer built on the foundation of
