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Lists are a good thing. I'll be making many of them in the time to come.\\\n\u003e I'm making one now.”*\\\n\u003e ― Erlend Loe, Naïve. Super\n\nYet another personal collection of technical things and descriptive explanations on variety of tools and technologies (I find useful and worth reading).\n\n## Algorithms\n\n- [SHA256 Algorithm Explained](https://sha256algorithm.com/)\n- [Understanding Big-O Notation](https://www.alexhyett.com/big-o-notation/)\n\n## Databases\n\n- [Relational Databases Explained](https://architecturenotes.co/things-you-should-know-about-databases/)\n- [Database Sharding Explained](https://architecturenotes.co/database-sharding-explained/)\n- [Redis Explained](https://architecturenotes.co/redis/)\n- [How do database indexes work?](https://planetscale.com/blog/how-do-database-indexes-work)\n- [How Time Series Databases Work - and Where They Don't](https://www.honeycomb.io/blog/time-series-database)\n\n## Dev\n\n- [Latency Numbers Every Programmer Should Know](https://colin-scott.github.io/personal_website/research/interactive_latency.html)\n- [Design Patterns for Humans](https://github.com/kamranahmedse/design-patterns-for-humans)\n\n## DevOps\n\n- [Kubernetes Architecture Explained](https://devopscube.com/kubernetes-architecture-explained/)\n- [What happens when I type kubectl run?](https://github.com/jamiehannaford/what-happens-when-k8s)\n\n## Distributed Systems\n\n- [Load Balancing](https://samwho.dev/load-balancing/)\n\n## Git\n\n- [What is Git made of?](https://zserge.com/posts/git/)\n- [The anatomy of a Git commit](https://blog.thoughtram.io/git/2014/11/18/the-anatomy-of-a-git-commit.html)\n\n## Misc\n\n- [What do emojis look like to computers?](https://sethmlarson.dev/utf-8)\n- [Putting the \"You\" in CPU: a rabbit hole into how your computer runs programs](https://cpu.land/)\n- [Base64 Encoding, Explained](https://www.writesoftwarewell.com/base64-encoding-explained/)\n\n## Security\n\n- [How do One-Time Passwords work?](https://zserge.com/posts/one-time-passwords/)\n- [Password strength explained](https://palant.info/2023/01/30/password-strength-explained/)\n- [Salted password hashing](https://crackstation.net/hashing-security.htm)\n\n## Time\n\n- [Where does my computer get the time from?](https://dotat.at/@/2023-05-26-whence-time.html)\n\n## Web\n\n- [What happens when...](https://github.com/alex/what-happens-when)\n- [How web works](https://github.com/vasanthk/how-web-works)\n- [How browsers work](https://web.dev/howbrowserswork/)\n- [How HTTPS works](https://howhttps.works/)\n- [HTTP in depth](https://medium.com/@ahmadfarag/http-in-depth-dfdac806c2c0)\n- Inside look at modern web browser\n  - [1. CPU, GPU, Memory, and multi-process architecture](https://developer.chrome.com/blog/inside-browser-part1/)\n  - [2. What happens in navigation](https://developer.chrome.com/blog/inside-browser-part2/)\n  - [3. Inner workings of a Renderer Process](https://developer.chrome.com/blog/inside-browser-part3/)\n  - [4. Input is coming to the Compositor](https://developer.chrome.com/blog/inside-browser-part4/)\n\n## Other Collections\n\n- [Every Programmer Should Know](https://github.com/mtdvio/every-programmer-should-know)\n","project_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/projects/github.com%2Faliesbelik%2Fhow-it-works","html_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/projects/github.com%2Faliesbelik%2Fhow-it-works","lists_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/projects/github.com%2Faliesbelik%2Fhow-it-works/lists"}