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Cake day: June 19th, 2023

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  • Congrats on dipping your toes into networking! Don’t let it suck you in too much or you’ll end up with a career change.

    Plenty of resources out there to learn from, just pick a project and try to implement it. Or just play around with netcat (just ‘nc’ nowadays).

    Look into the TCP/IP stack (or the OSI model, both cover the core concepts) for an overview of how applications talk to each other. This will also help you understand how LocalSend probably works (my guess is broadcasting to your network and seeing what devices are listening on a certain port. Some LAN-enabled games work like this, others aren’t as magical and ask you to provide an address and a port).











  • you forget StackOverflow. I saw my coworker once copy-and-paste code… from the question… and not understand why it wasn’t working… I’m all for using StackOverflow to get help with weird problems but, most of the time, simply reading the docs and applying that knowledge to the problem you are trying to solve is enough. a forgotten art for sure…