Software and Linux: Linux, deployment, logs, DNS, Git, Python, and command-line foundations for makers shipping small projects.
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Software and Linux
Linux, deployment, logs, DNS, Git, Python, and command-line foundations for makers shipping small projects.
Topic goal to ladder route
A topic names the maker goal. A ladder is the route from what you already understand to the next useful proof.
Name the part of the build you cannot explain yet.
Start with Linux Command Line Foundations for Makers, then choose the next related route.
Open a terminal, find files, read output, and run small inspection commands with confidence.
Linux Command Line Foundations for Makers
Learn enough shell navigation, reading, and command composition to inspect a project machine without blindly pasting commands.
Outcome: Open a terminal, find files, read output, and run small inspection commands with confidence.
Nginx Static Site Basics for Makers
Learn how Nginx serves a static site from a document root, why release folders help, and how to verify a deploy safely.
Outcome: Understand the path from a local HTML file to a live HTTPS page on a VPS.
DNS Records and SSL for Makers
Learn the practical order for pointing a domain at a VPS, checking DNS, proving HTTP, and adding HTTPS.
Outcome: Connect a domain to a VPS without guessing whether the problem is DNS, Nginx, or TLS.
Linux Files and Permissions for Makers
Learn paths, owners, groups, modes, and parent directory traversal before changing chmod or chown.
Outcome: Diagnose why a project file cannot be read, executed, or served.
Search Logs with grep, find, and tail
Learn how to search project logs by scope, time, and symptom so debugging starts from evidence.
Outcome: Find the relevant log lines for a recent failure without reading the whole log directory.
Linux Disk Space and Logs for Makers
Learn how bytes, inodes, logs, and deleted-open files can each make a project machine look full.
Outcome: Identify whether a disk-full problem is bytes, inodes, journal logs, Docker, or deleted-open files.
SSH Keys and Known Hosts for Makers
Learn how SSH identity, authorized keys, host keys, and file modes fit together before deleting warnings.
Outcome: Debug SSH access without exposing private keys or blindly removing known_hosts entries.
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