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Re:Ask HN: “Write your own” or “Build your own” software pro... by tarmstrong on Thursday March 15, 2018 @12:01PM (#16593994)
"500 Lines or Less" is an entire book of articles just like this. Each chapter guides you through a small (500 loc or less) implementation of a common component (eg a web server). http://aosabook.org/en/index.html
Re:Ask HN: “Write your own” or “Build your own” software pro... by e12e on Thursday March 15, 2018 @02:41PM (#16595438)
Came here to say this. Also; the other books in the series are interesting.
Re:Ask HN: “Write your own” or “Build your own” software pro... by e12e on Thursday March 15, 2018 @02:51PM (#16595526)
On a related note, I just became aware of hitch, 2nd generation stud(?) - a real-world, modern, high performance proxy server:

https://hitch-tls.org/

Re:Ask HN: “Write your own” or “Build your own” software pro... by teej on Thursday March 15, 2018 @04:31PM (#16596276)
This is the first generation stud project - https://github.com/bumptech/stud
Re:Ask HN: “Write your own” or “Build your own” software pro... by zabana on Friday March 16, 2018 @02:46PM (#16602994)
Thank you so very much for this resource !