AUDIO FORMATS
who published each standard, when, what it does to the sound, and how many bits per second it allows
THE BASE32 ENCODING
forty bits to a quantum: five bytes, eight characters and five padding cases
THE BASE64 ENCODING
three bytes become four characters: the alphabet, the tail, and what the "=" at the end is for
BIG-O NOTATION
the seven growth classes: how many steps, how long they take and how far each one lets you go
BINARY COUNTING
five doubling cards build every number from 0 to 31 — exactly the way every computer counts
THE CRON EXPRESSION
the five schedule fields: what each one means, what values it takes, and how to read stars, lists and steps
CSS GRID
the container properties and the item properties per the css-grid-2 specification — and what each does to the layout
BITS, BYTES, KILOBYTES
two scales · 1000 and 1024 · why a drive looks smaller
THE DMX512 PROTOCOL
512 channels down one serial wire, and why a full universe cannot refresh faster than 44 times a second
EAN-13
how thirteen digits become 95 modules of bars and spaces
THE EXIT STATUS
One byte from a command to the shell: what the standard assigns in it, what it leaves to the system — and why “128 + signal number” is nowhere in the standard
FILE DESCRIPTORS
Three levels between a number and a file: what two numbers of one description share, what two descriptions do not — and where the offset lives
FILE LOCKS
A lock lies on a range of bytes, it has two different kinds of owner, and it guards no byte at all
FILE PERMISSIONS
Nine bits in three triads, three special bits — and why r and x on a directory are different powers
CSS FLEXBOX
main axis and cross axis · which property belongs to which
A NUMBER IN 32 BITS
sign, exponent and significand: what actually sits in a float and what does not
FLOWCHART SYMBOLS
10 shapes, and one algorithm drawn with them
GIT WORKING AREAS
four areas · the command that moves code between them
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FILENAME EXPANSION: *, ?, […]
A leading dot and a slash disappear only in filename expansion: the same pattern “*” is seen by case, but not by expansion itself
GO vs RUST
seven questions, the same to both, and the document each answer is written in
HERE-DOCUMENTS
The body reaches the command as a single word, and one quote in the delimiter decides whether it arrives as typed
HTTP METHODS · 2026
ten methods per RFC 9110, 5789 and 10008: which are safe, which are idempotent, which can be retried
HTTP STATUS CODES
five classes · twenty codes you meet every day
IFS AND FIELD SPLITTING
Two kinds of delimiter: white ones merge into one, non-white ones each cut on their own — and the same value gives one field or four