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EvanAnderson 1 days ago [-]
It's a nice article and the animations are functional and aesthetically pleasing. I used to teach this on a whiteboard at my local community college. This is much slicker (and involves a lot less scribbling and erasing).
Spanning tree is an elegant protocol for the constraints it was invented under. Radia Perlman's poem-- particularly the last two stanzas-- also makes me very happy.
Aside: I enjoy the typographical error in the paragraph under the "Topology change notification" heading:
When a link fails, a connected fridge reachable...
I met her once in the Bay Area on BART as she was going from the airport to Berkeley to give a lecture (I admit I did not know who she was at the time). We had a nice 1 hour conversation. She's incredibly smart and humble.
illamint 1 days ago [-]
This blog is an unbelievable gold mine of information about networking, Linux, and other concepts. It's what I wish my own blog was in my head, if I could somehow summon the time and creativity.
vbernat 1 days ago [-]
If you like watching the first animation, you can get it for the other diagrams with a well-known video game code.
deburo 1 days ago [-]
Nice! Although not a fan of the sticky animation blocks since they take so much vertical space.
bobbob1921 4 hours ago [-]
I actually think they’re pretty nice even when I was viewing it on a restricted resolution device like an iPad mini, it’s not apparent at first but he does include a check box that allows you to turn off the stickiness of the animations, it’s a few lines or paragraphs below the first animation in the body
Spanning tree is an elegant protocol for the constraints it was invented under. Radia Perlman's poem-- particularly the last two stanzas-- also makes me very happy.
Aside: I enjoy the typographical error in the paragraph under the "Topology change notification" heading:
When a link fails, a connected fridge reachable...