Road to Senior #2: How Computers Think in Numbers
Daniel Ledvina
⏱️ Reading time: 7-9 minutes 🎯 Difficulty: Beginner - Intermediate 📂 Themes: Computer Science, Binary, Memory, Performance What's inside? 🔍 The Problem — A CSS color that made me realize I understood nothing ⚡ Bits & Bytes — The two building blocks of everything 🔣 Hex & RGB — Why #FF0000 is red, and what those letters actually mean 🔤 ASCII & UTF-8 — How numbers become letters, emoji, and everything in between 🏗️ RAM, Cache & the Bus — Where data lives and how it moves ⚡ Interrupts & DMA — How ha