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networking

IP Subnetting and CIDR in 10 Minutes — A Practical Guide

Complete beginner guide to IPv4 addresses, CIDR prefix notation, calculating usable hosts, subnet masks, RFC 1918 private ranges, and CLI tools.

homelab

Proxmox VE Getting Started — Installation, Storage, VMs, and LXC

Complete beginner guide to Proxmox VE bare-metal virtualization, ZFS vs LVM storage, launching KVM virtual machines, and managing LXC containers via CLI.

domains

Nameserver Delegation and Glue Records — Resolving the Chicken-and-Egg Problem

Complete beginner guide to DNS zone delegation, in-bailiwick nameservers, glue records, avoiding lame delegations, and CLI verification tools.

dns

DNS A and AAAA Records — Pointing Domains at IP Addresses

Complete beginner guide to IPv4 A records and IPv6 AAAA records, dual-stack configurations, TTL tuning strategies, and CLI verification with dig.

linux-packages

curl — Command Line HTTP Client & API Debugger

Complete beginner guide to curl, testing REST APIs, inspecting HTTP response headers, verifying SSL/TLS certificates, and debugging response timing with command flag breakdowns.

linux-packages

screenfetch — System Information & ASCII Art Tool

Complete beginner guide to screenfetch, displaying Linux distribution ASCII logos, hardware specifications, uptime, and configuring SSH MOTD welcome banners.

linux-packages

Lynx — Text-Based Web Browser for Terminal & SEO Inspection

Complete beginner guide to Lynx, browsing the web in pure text, inspecting HTML semantics, SEO crawler audits, and dump CLI flag breakdowns.

php

PHP 8.3 Getting Started — Installation, CLI Server, Routing, and OPcache

Complete beginner guide to modern PHP 8.3, package installation, CLI development server flags, building a front controller micro-router, and OPcache.