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Web Development

Sun, 22 Aug 2021 01:20:19 +0400

Web Development

Here is the truth about web development in 2026: the web is still three languages in a trench coat – HTML, CSS and JavaScript – and everything else is tooling piled on to keep those three under control at scale. Learn the three deeply; treat frameworks as temporary.

Online VPS, SaaS, PaaS, IaaS

Mon, 12 Dec 2016 22:38:11 +0400

Online VPS, SaaS, PaaS, IaaS

Here is the truth about a VPS: you are renting a virtual machine that thinks it is a computer, and you are its sysadmin. The freedom is real; so is the responsibility when the cron job fills the disk at 3 a.m.

What it is, in plain words

A VPS (Virtual Private Server) is a virtual machine sold by a host – Linode/Akamai, DigitalOcean, Hetzner, OVH, Vultr, Oracle Cloud’s free tier, and many smaller providers. You get a public IP, a chosen Linux image (or your own), CPU/RAM/disk quotas, and root access. Underneath, it’s a KVM (usually) guest on hardware you don’t own.

Using Linode

Mon, 12 Dec 2016 22:15:06 +0400

Using Linode

Here is the truth about Linode: it was one of the first hosts to make renting a serious Linux machine feel like a commodity, and after the Akamai acquisition that spirit mostly survived. A Linode is just a good VPS with a clean API and sane networking defaults.

What it is, in plain words

Linode is a cloud/VPS provider founded in 2003, acquired by Akamai in 2022. You rent virtual machines (Linodes / Nanodes / dedicated CPU instances), object storage, Kubernetes (LKE), managed databases and node balancers in a few dozen regions. Images include Ubuntu, Debian, Alpine, Arch and custom uploads; rescue mode and out-of-band console exist when you lock yourself out.

Logging into Servers with SSH

Mon, 12 Dec 2016 05:11:02 +0400

Logging into Servers with SSH

Here is the truth about SSH: the password is the weakest part of it, and you should almost never use one. SSH is how you get a shell on another machine securely; keys are how you do it without turning a password guess into a break-in.

What it is, in plain words

SSH (Secure Shell) is a protocol and a set of tools (ssh, scp, sftp, ssh-keygen, ssh-agent) that give you an encrypted channel to another computer. Typical uses:

TLS - Transport Layer Security

Tue, 06 Dec 2016 00:48:26 +0400

TLS - Transport Layer Security

Here is the truth about TLS: it is the reason the lock icon means anything – a protocol that turns an open pipe into a private, authenticated conversation. HTTPS is just HTTP spoken through that pipe.

What it is, in plain words

TLS (Transport Layer Security), successor to the old SSL, is the cryptographic protocol that provides:

Network Protocols and Technologies

Wed, 30 Nov 2016 05:18:36 +0400

Network Protocols and Technologies

It probably hasn’t escaped you attention that Computer Networks (Social and Otherwise) are possibly one of the most important technologies invented in the last century. But how do they work? I mean really work under the hood?

Application Development

Wed, 18 May 2016 05:18:22 +0400

Application Development

Here is the truth about application development: shipping software is less about frameworks and more about feedback loops – build something small, put it in front of reality, learn, repeat. Tools change; that loop does not.

What it is, in plain words

Application development is the craft of turning a need into a running program people can use: clarifying the problem, designing a thin slice, implementing, testing, deploying, observing, iterating. It spans CLI tools, desktop apps, mobile, embedded and the web – different skins, same skeleton.