Bit flags aren’t probably something that you think about in traditional/modern software development. You might if you are in the IoT space, but if you have the pleasure of a ton of RAM, you probably aren’t super concerned with saving space. However, recently I’ve been thinking a lot about network communication and how to minimize … [Read more…]
I’ve never really liked hexadecimal notation. The combination of letters and numbers always made my brain turn off. I mean, I understand it, but it never seemed like it made a difference or not. via GIPHY Binary Obviously, computers think in ones and zeroes. The smallest unit is typically talked about as a byte, which … [Read more…]
TCP is a good choice for communication if you want to know that your message got to where it was going, as opposed to UDP where the communication is fire-and-forget. When a message is sent, the recipient sends an acknowledgement that the message arrived successfully. If you don’t get an acknowledgement, you have a pretty … [Read more…]