Sharing notes from my ongoing learning journey — what I build, break and understand along the way.
How I Discovered the Hidden Power of System Logs While researching security-related topics, I kept coming across the term “logs.” I didn’t quite understand what made them so important at first. I thought logs were just boring text files the…
My First FastAPI Project Today, I built my first working web project using FastAPI. I’m sharing the whole process step-by-step — what I did, what issues I encountered, and how I learned. First, I Installed Visual Studio Code While installing…
What Is OAuth 2.0? A Deep Dive into the Authorization Protocol Not long ago, I tried to implement Google OAuth login in one of my own web projects.Although I haven’t fully succeeded yet, the process pushed me to deeply understand…
What Are IDS and IPS? My Deep Dive into Real Network Protection Recently, I’ve been going deeper into network security, and two concepts kept popping up that I didn’t fully grasp at first: IDS and IPS.As I started exploring them,…
Understanding File Systems in Windows: NTFS, FAT32, exFAT Lately, I’ve been diving into system-level concepts like disk structure, terminals, and file management.As I learned more about files, folders, and command-line basics, I realized there’s an underlying structure behind all of…
My Journey with PowerShell: Getting Comfortable with Folders, Files, and the Terminal When I first opened the PowerShell terminal, the plain blue screen looked serious — and frankly, intimidating. But I had a clear goal:I wanted to learn how to…
What Is CI/CD? Hi there!I recently started learning about a topic called CI/CD, and I wanted to write down what I’ve understood so far — in a clear, simple way.When I first came across it, I had questions like: “What…
What Is DHCP? A Deep Dive into Automated IP Management 1. Introduction to DHCP DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol) is a network protocol that automatically assigns IP addresses and network configuration details (like subnet mask, gateway, DNS) to devices (clients)…
What Is DNS? A Deep Dive into the Internet’s Hidden Backbone 1. What Is DNS? DNS (Domain Name System) is the system that translates human-readable domain names like google.com into machine-readable IP addresses like 142.250.74.238. It’s essentially the phone book…
What Are TCP and UDP? TCP and UDP are two of the most fundamental protocols in networking. Yet, most explanations stop at “one is reliable, the other is fast.” After spending time truly understanding them — how they work, when…