The HTML parser encounters a script tag with a source. Code from this source gets loaded from either the network, cache, or an installed service worker. The response is the requested script as a stream of bytes, which the byte stream decoder takes care of! The byte stream decoder decodes the stream of bytes as it’s being downloaded.

The byte stream decoder creates tokens from the decoded stream of bytes. For example, 0066 decodes to f, 0075 to u, 006e to n, 0063 to c, 0074 to t, 0069 to i, 006...

Until about a year ago, I worked almost exclusively within the macOS and Ubuntu operating systems. On both of those OSes, bash is my default shell. I've acquired a general understanding of how bash works over the past six or seven years and would like to give an overview of some of the more common / useful commands for those just getting started. If you think you know everything there is to know about bash, take a look below anyway -- I've included some tips and reminders of flags you may hav...