What it is
Most people use a big library when they want two computers to talk. I wanted to understand what's actually happening underneath — so I built a server that speaks its protocol by hand: opening a socket, reading raw bytes off the wire, and answering with exactly the right bytes back. It's the same low-level idea behind how the RCON channel on my Minecraft server works. 🧠
Why it's cool
- No networking library doing the hard part — I handle the raw data myself
- Taught me how real protocols are structured (headers, lengths, payloads)
- The exact skill that let me hand-write the RCON client my other tools use
More details
📝 This page is a stub — jshkolnik, tell Claude more about this project (what protocol, what language, what it does) and I'll flesh it out with the real story, code snippets, and a proper feature list.