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Networking Machinery for Software Engineers Part 1: Rebuilding a Local Network with Medieval Signal Towers
How a ridiculous thought experiment leads to Ethernet frames, MAC addresses, switches, broadcast, and ARP.
Aug 28
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Dmytro Huz
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Networking in the Power Grid for Software Developers
A living map of my attempt to understand the networking machinery behind power-grid software, from physical links and Ethernet to substation…
Aug 27
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Dmytro Huz
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Where Software Lives in the Power Grid
This article maps the software ecosystem of the power grid and gives software engineers a mental model for understanding where different systems fit and…
Aug 4
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Dmytro Huz
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How Europe’s Power System Is Organised
The EU electricity sector is not one company moving electricity from power plants to consumers. It is a regulated system of different actors whose…
Aug 1
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Dmytro Huz
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July 2026
How the European Grid Stays Stable
Operations, monitoring, control and protection, Part 3 of A Developer’s Map of the European Power Grid
Jul 20
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Dmytro Huz
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Adding Homemade TLS to a Homemade Web Server
I combined my self-written web server and my self-written TLS project. The surprising part was how little the HTTP layer needed to know.
Jul 4
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Dmytro Huz
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May 2026
The Grid Is Not a Pipeline
The European Power Grid for Software Developers, Part 2
May 29
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Dmytro Huz
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Electricity Is Not Water: A Better Mental Model for the Grid
Electricity Before Infrastructure, Part 1 of The European Power Grid for Software Developers
May 15
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Dmytro Huz
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A Developer’s Map of the European Power Grid
The central hub for my series: The European Power Grid for Software Developers
May 12
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Dmytro Huz
2
April 2026
Rebuilding TLS, Part 4 - Certificates and Trust
How certificates close the man-in-the-middle gap
Apr 26
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Dmytro Huz
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Not sure where to begin? Start here!
Rebuild complex systems from first principles — with code, diagrams, and step-by-step explanations.
Apr 23
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Dmytro Huz
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Rebuilding TLS, Part 3 — Building Our First Handshake
We get rid of the pre-shared key assumption, build a simple key exchange handshake, and discover why key agreement alone still does not give us real…
Apr 19
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Dmytro Huz
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