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Well said! I'm in manufacturing, not web tech, so the hard things I work with are very different (RS-274 G-code, servo motion systems, PLC/SCADA network connections are a few examples), but it's interesting to see the overlap in causes of difficulty like trivia, gotchas, frequency of use, and visibility. And disheartening to see that the web tech community is so open and friendly and communicative, while controls engineers may rarely hang out on forums but rarely share anything even close to this outside of a $2,000 training course.

And not to nitpick, but I don't have Julia's email, but when struggling with hard things like DNS I hate to have someone bounce off this little roadblock...her link to to the demo of the DNS exploration website is pointing to the .com, when it's actually at the .net TLD:

    <a href="https://messwithdns.com">messwithdns.net</a>
                                 ^^^    =/=       ^^^
Looks like someone needs an HTML linter... :)

The correct link - https://messwithdns.net/ - is actually pretty neat!



fixed, thanks!




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