Building a Web Server from Scratch (No, Actually)

When I say from scratch, I mean it. No frameworks, no node_modules taking 500MB of disk space, no runtime. Just you, and your Linux kernel. A Bit of Context Exactly one week ago, I was in my NoSQL class, and got bored, like, really. And what does a sane person do when they're bored? Certainly not learn assembly. But that's what I did. To be honest, the idea had been running on my mind for some time already. So I said to myself that it could be more interesting than reading papers about MongoDB, and looked for a guide. I directly found this guide from Alex Kuleshov , and started reading. That afternoon, I read about 3 posts instead of listening to my teacher, and then went home. Since I didn't want to digest more theory that day, I decided to do some practice. You learn more from random segfaults than from pages of theory. The guide didn't cover exercises + answers, so I decided to use the thing that will probably steal my job in a few years: Claude . Even if it can't (yet) write good a