guerz.lol v1.2 is live and the roadmap soft shipped too 🚀

i refreshed the site, tightened the learning structure, and locked in the next 4-week HTML/CSS focus

the current build now matches the way i actually learn and ship

proud of this one 🎯 #guerzlol

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guerz.lol v1.2 soft shipped and i’m absurdly proud of it ✨🍊

the new palette + fonts feel so right

been grinding through FCC, The Odin Project, and Encode iOS, and it’s finally starting to click

tonight’s still got more study work, but i had to pause and appreciate the win 🌺

#guerzlol #freeCodeCamp #TheOdinProject #EncodeiOS #100DaysOfCode #WebDev #HTML #CSS #LearnInPublic

What's TLS Termination?

I didn’t know what TLS termination was—until I had to. A breakdown of HTTPS, TLS handshakes, and termination points.

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You’ve just realized your last commit was a total disaster 😱 You need to undo it fast.

But do you reach for the surgical precision of a revert or the "nuke it from orbit" power of a reset? Your choice could save or break the repo! 👇

Don't let a bad commit haunt you 👻 Check out the right answer and master the art of undoing here 👉 https://www.git-skills.dev/quiz/undoing-changes/#q-what-is-the-key-difference-between-git-reset-and-git-revert

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“Wait… isn’t a load balancer just a proxy?”

Not exactly. Learn about both in my latest post.

https://explainedbyx.com/load-balancers-vs-proxies/

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Load Balancers VS Proxies

Load balancers and proxies often get lumped together, but they solve very different problems at different points in the request journey.

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Overflow bug with .visually-hidden class

Yesterday, I ran into a weird bug in Chrome and Webkit (but not Firefox) using the .visually-hidden class inside an element that had overflow set to anything other than auto. The visually hidden elements would create a gap at the end of the overflow element, compounding the more of them there were. I wanted to document the details of the bug, and how I fixed it, because I’m sure I’ll run into this again.

pause unpaused. postcard is live. pause again. then, back to it!

glad i took another break after shipping the blog postcard. it’s live now! which still feels good every time i say it out loud. i posted the screenshot, linked it back to the postcard, and let the whole thing close the loop properly and all. right now, i’m just stepping away for a minute. gonna go on a walk, bounce my racquetball around, and keep my hand coordination alive while the rest of me cools off. little things like that matter more than they look like they should. they keep me […]

https://blogguerz.wordpress.com/2026/06/01/pause-unpaused-postcard-is-live-pause-again-then-back-to-it/

Reading more. Watching less.

A few years ago, one of my big goals for the year was to watch less TV and read more books. I like a lot of nerdy sci-fi, dark fantasy, and dystopian media that my wife doesn’t particularly enjoy, which means I’d typically end up watching my shows after we watched our shows together and she went to bed. TV shows keep me awake in a way that reading does not (even when I read ebooks on the glowing screen of my iPad).

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Dedicated to breaking down technical concepts into explanations that are easy to understand, practical to apply, and hard to forget. New article every week 🚀

https://explainedbyx.com/hello-world/

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Explained By X

Hi, and welcome! My name is Xavier, and I’m a DevSecOps engineer with a passion for learning and sharing what I learn along the way. Throughout my career, I’ve encountered countless concepts that seemed far more complicated than they needed to be. Not because they were inherently difficult,

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How to redirect if a page doesn't exist with Apache

Over a decade ago, I decided I wanted my article URLs to live at my site’s root path / instead of a subpath (like /blog or /articles) “for SEO purposes.” That made sense when I had a few dozen articles and hosted with WordPress. Today, I have nearly 3,000 articles generated as a flat HTML files with Hugo, and navigating my file system on the server is an unruly mess!