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 • 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 • 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 • 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 • 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 • 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 • 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 • Dmytro Huz

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April 2026

Rebuilding TLS, Part 4 - Certificates and Trust

How certificates close the man-in-the-middle gap

Apr 26 • 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 • 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 • Dmytro Huz

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Rebuilding TLS, Part 2 — Adding Integrity to the Channel

We teach our protocol to detect tampering, make records less naive with sequence numbers, and then switch to the AEAD style used in real systems.

Apr 5 • Dmytro Huz

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March 2026

Rebuilding TLS, Part 1 — Why Encryption Alone Is Not Enough

From transparent TCP traffic to encrypted records — and the first reason TLS needs more than encryption

Mar 29 • Dmytro Huz

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