Learn technology the way
it actually holds up.
Alpacahacks teaches the fundamentals that outlast frameworks — networks, data, systems, craft — and puts each one to work in a project you finish, run, and can explain to anyone.
What we are building
Every fundamental is paired with something you actually ship. You learn the idea, then you build the thing that proves you understood it.
- How the internet actually moves bytes
- Write an HTTP server from a bare socket
- Data structures and the cost of each choice
- Build a key-value store with its own index
- Memory, processes, and what the OS is doing
- Ship a shell that handles pipes and jobs
- Debugging, reading source, and testing under pressure
- Fix a real bug in a codebase you did not write