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Not Received Or Not Delivered
Networking Programming Backend
1 day ago 100.2K views 0 shares
Not Received Or Not Delivered
The server is just yeeting responses into the void and hoping for the best! UDP (User Datagram Protocol) is basically the networking equivalent of throwing paper airplanes out a window and not caring if they reach their destination. Unlike its responsible older sibling TCP, UDP doesn't wait for acknowledgments or bother with retransmissions. It's the digital manifestation of "fire and forget" – perfect for streaming, gaming, and situations where dropping packets is preferable to waiting. The diagram perfectly captures how the server just keeps blasting responses without checking if anything arrived. Hey, did you get my packet? Who knows! Who cares!

Connection Refused: Relationship Edition
Networking Programming
2 days ago 115.6K views 0 shares
Connection Refused: Relationship Edition
Developer relationships in a nutshell. He's trying to establish a connection with her, but she's adamantly refusing to bind to his socket. Classic networking misunderstanding. She wants him to listen to her words, not her TCP/IP packets. Guess their connection status is officially REFUSED .

Is This Justified
C++ Networking Security Programming Debugging
3 days ago 141.7K views 0 shares
Is This Justified
Ah, the classic "just reset everything and pray" approach to buffer overflow. Nothing says "enterprise-ready" like a class that admits it's not thread-safe in a TODO comment that's probably been there since 2007. The cherry on top is that C-style cast with the helpful "WARNING" comment right next to it. Because nothing makes me sleep better at night than knowing our production system handles network packets by just yeeting the buffer offset back to zero when things get spicy. This code is basically the digital equivalent of duct-taping a leaking pipe while the house is flooding. And the name "LegacyConnectionManager" is the perfect touch - we all know "Legacy" is code for "nobody wants to touch this nightmare but we can't afford to rewrite it."

The Bandwidth Vampire Effect
Networking Hardware
5 days ago 97.5K views 0 shares
The Bandwidth Vampire Effect
Ah, the classic "I'll just borrow your WiFi for a sec" that turns your 16K gaming experience into a potato-quality slideshow. Nothing says friendship like watching your bandwidth get absolutely massacred while your buddy streams 4K cat videos, downloads the entire Steam library, and probably mines some crypto on the side. Your internet provider must love that sudden spike in usage that makes your router sound like it's about to achieve liftoff. Next time just hand them your credit card instead—it'll be less painful.

DNS: The Grim Reaper Of Cloud Services
Networking Devops AWS Azure Gcp
7 days ago 183.3K views 1 shares
DNS: The Grim Reaper Of Cloud Services
Death (DNS) is knocking on GCP's door after already claiming AWS and Azure as victims. When your cloud provider's DNS goes down, everything goes down with it. Three major outages in recent memory, and engineers everywhere are just waiting for the GCP massacre to complete the unholy trinity. Nothing like watching your entire infrastructure implode because someone fat-fingered a DNS config change that propagated globally in seconds. Hope you've got a good incident response template ready!

Please Don't Make Fun Of My Home Server
Networking Security Devops Hardware Linux
10 days ago 253.8K views 0 shares
Please Don't Make Fun Of My Home Server
Nothing says "I've reached peak adulthood" quite like defending your janky home server setup from judgment. That little black box running your Plex media server, personal cloud, and three different abandoned side projects is basically your digital child now. The corporate IT folks might have their fancy racks and redundant cooling systems, but your repurposed desktop sitting on a doily with blinking lights is hosting your entire digital life on a residential internet connection with a dynamic IP address. And you'll defend it to your dying breath. Sure, it crashes every time there's a power flicker and your uptime is measured in "since the last thunderstorm," but it's yours , dammit!

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Junior Dev Vs Websocket
Debugging Webdev Networking Javascript Programming
13 days ago 158.9K views 0 shares
Junior Dev Vs Websocket
The sad Pepe frog in monk robes staring at a gun is basically the spiritual journey of every dev who's battled WebSockets. After 6 hours of "connection refused" errors and Stack Overflow threads from 2013, you start contemplating alternative career paths. The dark truth we veterans know: sometimes it's not your code, it's not the server, it's just WebSockets being WebSockets. The universe's way of teaching you humility through persistent connection failures.

Packet Loss Has Different Consequences
Networking Programming
15 days ago 143.2K views 0 shares
Packet Loss Has Different Consequences
The difference between IT Engineers and drug dealers when "losing a few packets" is night and day. For network folks, it's just Tuesday - hit retry and move on with your life. For the pharmaceutical distribution specialists, it's 5-10 years without parole. TCP will happily retransmit your lost data; the DEA won't retransmit your freedom.

It Was Always DNS
Networking Security Devops Linux Debugging
17 days ago 225.3K views 0 shares
It Was Always DNS
The five stages of network troubleshooting, as told by ancient wisdom: 1. Denial: "It's not DNS" 2. Anger: "There's no way it's DNS" 3. Bargaining: *frantically checking firewall rules* 4. Depression: *silent contemplation while staring at wireshark* 5. Acceptance: "It was DNS" The universal truth every sysadmin discovers after wasting 6 hours of their life. DNS - secretly stands for "Did Not Solve" until you finally check it.

There's No Place Like 127.0.0.1
Networking Webdev Devops Programming Backend
17 days ago 164.6K views 0 shares
There's No Place Like 127.0.0.1
When someone says localhost is the fastest server, they're not wrong—it's literally your own computer! Zero network latency, no DNS lookups, no routing tables to traverse... just pure, instantaneous local processing. The interviewer's rage is the perfect reaction to being technically outplayed by the smartest guy in the room who skipped all the corporate buzzwords and went straight for the networking truth. Nothing beats the speed of 127.0.0.1, baby!

That's Some Good Cable Management
Networking Devops Hardware Programming
19 days ago 255.6K views 1 shares
That's Some Good Cable Management
Rejecting the chaotic spaghetti wiring that looks like your legacy codebase after 5 developers quit? Yes please . Embracing those clean, organized, zip-tied cables that make your network rack look like it belongs in a museum? Absolutely . The skeleton represents your infrastructure - it's either going to be held together by prayers and StackOverflow answers, or it's going to be a thing of beauty that you can actually troubleshoot without wanting to end your career. Remember kids: cable management is just version control for the physical world.

The Local Bus That Broke The Internet
Networking Programming
20 days ago 129.3K views 0 shares
The Local Bus That Broke The Internet
When your IPv4 address gets tired of being just 4 bytes and decides to become a bus route number. That's not a destination—that's a full TCP handshake with room for cookies! Somewhere, a network admin is frantically checking if someone accidentally routed the entire internet to Sweden. The driver probably needs GPS just to remember where this monstrosity is supposed to go.