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Julia Evans May 14, 2023

what are some other tutorials for implementing a toy version of a hard thing in a short amount of time? Like https://implement-dns.wizardzines.com or https://raytracing.github.io

I’m especially interested in the “in a short amount of time” aspect, I think nand2tetris is extremely cool but you definitely can’t do it in 3 days.

If possible I'd love to hear about a project you personally did and how long it took you.

Implement DNS in a weekend

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Michael W Lucas

@b0rk This might be the wrong layer compared to what you did, but: I'm surprisingly proud of the SNMP book catalog agent I wrote in one day (and polished the next morning).

It's Perl, and silly, and taught me a huge amount about how SNMP actually works. People actually use this sort of thing in production.

I left it up as an Easter egg for the book.