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Byte-sized wisdom for the networked being. Notes on networking, security, AI, and the tools worth using.

FEATURED

HopCount: Serious Network Diagnostics on Android

HopCount is a focused network diagnostic app built for engineers, sysadmins, and developers who need real answers from a phone rather than a toy. It brings the discipline of terminal tooling to Android, ping, traceroute, DNS lookups, port checks, and route tracing, in one clean, offline-first interface with no ads, no accounts, and no tracking. Where most mobile network tools stop at a single feature wrapped in advertising, HopCount treats the phone as a genuine field instrument, fast, precise, and honest about what it measures. It is the tool you reach for when a link is flapping in a data center aisle and the laptop is three racks away. Read more

Network Engineering, July 2026

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Network Engineering15 Linux Fundamentals7 Internet Security6 Digital Privacy10 Artificial Intelligence13 Science and Technology9 Android Apps24

TOOLS

Command Reference

Search commands across Cisco, Juniper, Arista, Nokia, Huawei, and Linux, with verified syntax and real output.

Subnet Calculator

VLSM planning, route summarization, subnet splitting, and overlap checks, plus the full breakdown of any IPv4 prefix.

REFERENCES

HTTP Status Codes

Every HTTP status code with the operational facts, retryable, cacheable, and required headers, and the commonly confused pairs.

Port and Protocol Lookup

The service on any common port, whether it is cleartext or encrypted, safe to expose or not, and the risk it carries.

Cable and Standard Reference

Copper categories, fiber types, optics, and connectors, with the distances that actually apply and how to choose.