here are some of my favourite pages from my zines!

Become a SELECT Star!

COALESCE

EXPLAIN

HAVING

SQL queries start with FROM

how indexes make your queries fast

single quote your strings

Bite Size Command Line!

awk

bash tricks

cat

du & df

find

grep

less

lsof

misc commands

more bash tricks

sed

sort & uniq

tar

xargs

Bite Size Linux!

/proc

copy on write

floating point

man page sections

memory allocation

mmap

page faults

permissions

processes

shared libraries

signals

system calls

unix domain sockets

virtual memory

Bite Size Networking!

curl

dig

iptables

netcat

ngrep

nmap

ssh

tshark

HTTP: Learn your browser's language!

CORS

HTTP/2

anatomy of a http request

content delivery networks

cookies

how URLs work

http status codes

the most important HTTP request headers

what's HTTP?

where to learn more

Help! I have a manager!

ask for specific feedback

what to talk about in 1:1s

what's your manager's job?

How Containers Work!

capabilities

cgroups

containers aren't magic

namespaces

seccomp bpf

why containers?

So You Want To Be a Wizard

how I got better at debugging

how to be a wizard programmer

love your bugs

take on hard projects

a debugging zine (currently in progress)

debugging tips: check your assumptions

if you understand a big, you can fix it

when debugging, your attitude matters

writing code with bugs is normal

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