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Hi! I'm Dan McNulty. On this blog, I post essays and thoughts on all aspects of the World Wide Web (WWW), with a focus on the technical underpinnings.

Topics I cover (or plan to cover 😅) include:

  • The design and implementation of:
    • Web servers.
    • Non-browser user agents such as curl.
    • Middleware such as HTTP gateways, caches and the like.
    • Web apps.
  • Network and information security at all layers of the web stack.
  • Authentication and authorization in web apps.
  • The internals of the major browser engines in use today: Chromium, WebKit, Gecko.
  • The protocols: HTTP, TLS, DNS, and others from the W3C and IETF.
  • The languages such as HTML, CSS, JavaScript.
  • The economic characteristics of the Web and their impact on technology.

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