Linux for makers

Use the command line to ship and repair your own projects.

These lessons teach enough Linux to deploy a site, inspect failures, and keep small projects moving.

Linux lesson set

Use these in order, or jump to the problem your project exposed.

Open a terminal, find files, read output, and run small inspection commands with confidence.

Understand the path from a local HTML file to a live HTTPS page on a VPS.

Connect a domain to a VPS without guessing whether the problem is DNS, Nginx, or TLS.

Diagnose why a project file cannot be read, executed, or served.

Find the relevant log lines for a recent failure without reading the whole log directory.

Make a small project safer to edit, deploy, and roll back.

Identify whether a disk-full problem is bytes, inodes, journal logs, Docker, or deleted-open files.

Debug SSH access without exposing private keys or blindly removing known_hosts entries.

Run a project with the intended Python interpreter and dependency set.

Keep one project note that actually helps you resume work.

Make five review cards that preserve the useful lesson from a video.

Stop treating every error message as a wall of text.

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Last reviewed: July 5, 2026. TopicLadder pages are curated for practical learning and may be updated as examples improve.