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Learn Zig Series (#99) - Mini Project: DNS-over-HTTPS Proxy

Learn Zig Series (#99) - Mini Project: DNS-over-HTTPS Proxy What will I learn? Why the operating system still asks for names in plaintext UDP long after the rest

Learn Zig Series (#98) - Mini Project: Chat Server - Rooms and History

Learn Zig Series (#98) - Mini Project: Chat Server - Rooms and History What will I learn? Why a chat room with no memory feels broken the moment you walk in late

Learn Zig Series (#97) - Mini Project: Chat Server - Client TUI

Learn Zig Series (#97) - Mini Project: Chat Server - Client TUI What will I learn? Why a chat client is a genuinely different problem from the server -- not "read

Learn Zig Series (#96) - Mini Project: Chat Server - Server Core

Learn Zig Series (#96) - Mini Project: Chat Server - Server Core What will I learn? How to turn last episode's paper protocol into a running server that many people

Learn Zig Series (#95) - Mini Project: Chat Server - Protocol Design

Learn Zig Series (#95) - Mini Project: Chat Server - Protocol Design What will I learn? Why a real multi-user program starts with the messages, not the sockets --

Learn Zig Series (#94) - NAT Traversal and Hole Punching

Learn Zig Series (#94) - NAT Traversal and Hole Punching What will I learn? What a NAT actually is once you stop fearing it -- a box on your router that rewrites

Learn Zig Series (#93) - SOCKS5 Proxy

Learn Zig Series (#93) - SOCKS5 Proxy What will I learn? What a SOCKS5 proxy actually is once you strip the mystique away -- a tiny handshake, a one-shot connect

Learn Zig Series (#92) - gRPC Service in Zig

Learn Zig Series (#92) - gRPC Service in Zig What will I learn? What gRPC actually is once you strip the branding away -- protobuf payloads, HTTP/2 transport, and

Learn Zig Series (#91) - MessagePack Format

Learn Zig Series (#91) - MessagePack Format What will I learn? Why a self-describing binary format exists, and how it differs from the schema-driven protobuf we

Learn Zig Series (#90) - Protocol Buffers Serialization

Learn Zig Series (#90) - Protocol Buffers Serialization What will I learn? Why a binary serialization format exists at all, and what protobuf buys you over hand-rolled

Learn Zig Series (#89) - MQTT Messaging Protocol

Learn Zig Series (#89) - MQTT Messaging Protocol What will I learn? Why MQTT exists, and what the publish/subscribe-through-a-broker model buys you over plain sockets;

Learn Zig Series (#88) - WebSocket Server

Learn Zig Series (#88) - WebSocket Server What will I learn? How a WebSocket connection lives and dies -- the handshaking, open, closing, closed state machine; How

Learn Zig Series (#87) - WebSocket Protocol

Learn Zig Series (#87) - WebSocket Protocol What will I learn? Why WebSocket exists, and what it does that plain HTTP simply cannot; How the opening handshake upgrades

Learn Zig Series (#86) - TLS via C Interop

Learn Zig Series (#86) - TLS via C Interop What will I learn? Why you should NEVER hand-roll your own TLS, and what to do instead; How to link a battle-tested C

Learn Zig Series (#85) - HTTP/2 Frames and Streams

Learn Zig Series (#85) - HTTP/2 Frames and Streams What will I learn? Why HTTP/1.1 hit a wall and what problem HTTP/2 was designed to solve; How the binary framing

Learn Zig Series (#84) - HTTP/1.1 Deep Dive

Learn Zig Series (#84) - HTTP/1.1 Deep Dive What will I learn How HTTP/1.1 works at the byte level -- request lines, headers, and message bodies; How to build a

Learn Zig Series (#83) - DNS Server Implementation

Learn Zig Series (#83) - DNS Server Implementation What will I learn How to build a DNS server that listens for queries and sends responses; How to implement zone

Learn Zig Series (#82) - DNS Resolver from Scratch

Learn Zig Series (#82) - DNS Resolver from Scratch What will I learn How DNS works at the protocol level -- query format, response parsing, record types; How to

Learn Zig Series (#81) - UDP Sockets and Datagrams

Learn Zig Series (#81) - UDP Sockets and Datagrams What will I learn How UDP differs from TCP at the protocol level and why you'd choose one over the other; How

Learn Zig Series (#80) - Mini Project: File Sync Tool - Part 4: Polish

Learn Zig Series (#80) - Mini Project: File Sync Tool - Part 4: Polish Part of a multi-episode project What will I learn How to implement conflict resolution strategies