Julia Evans
Jvns.ca is the personal blog of Julia Evans, a software engineer and writer known for making complex technical topics easy and fun to understand. Her posts cover Linux, networking, debugging, command-line tools, and systems programming, often using real-world examples and colorful visual explanations. Julia’s writing focuses on practical learning, showing how tools like strace, tcpdump, git, and Python actually work under the hood and helping developers gain confidence in understanding what their systems are doing. She is also the creator of the popular Zine series, which turns topics like debugging, shell commands, and performance profiling into engaging illustrated mini-books. With her clear and approachable teaching style, Jvns.ca has become one of the most beloved resources for developers who want to truly understand how computers work.