Engineering / visual notebook
Look a little
closer.
The machinery underneath everyday technology is stranger and more beautiful than it looks. These are attempts to see what's really happening.
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What makes a good explanation
Make complicated things feel obvious.
A good technical explanation doesn't just tell you what happens. It gives you a mental model you can carry around afterwards.
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Start with a question. Every investigation begins with something worth being curious about.
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Follow what moves. Packets, bytes, replicas, signals and requests are usually where the story lives.
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Show the scale. Sometimes the fastest way to understand a system is to make its size impossible to ignore.