This zine explains git’s core concepts (commits! branches! merging! remotes!) with minimal jargon and a focus on the actual problems that can ruin your day. What does fast-forward failed mean? What’s “detached HEAD state” and what are you supposed to do about it? Why do commits sometimes get lost, and how can you get them back? If you’re still perplexed by git even though you’ve been using it for years, this zine is for you!

4294967295 + 1 = 0! 0.1 + 0.2 = 0.30000000000000004! -2 in binary is 11111110! And what’s all this jargon? Unsigned integer? Little endian? Hexadecimal? This zine will explain the jargon, why floating point math is so weird (and why a little weirdness is inevitable), how integers and floats are represented in memory, exactly how floating numbers work, down to the binary representation and some alternatives to floating point.

This is 90’s-00’s childhood nostalgia in a nutshell. Beautifully written comic by Amy Wibowo known as SailorHg about growing up and discovering the wider world through the world wide web. Available for free online, also in print at her shop BubbleSort Zines.

All About Wires, An Instructive Appreciation of Buttons and Switches and Love LEDs. Learn all the things!

This zine explains the 17 most important Linux networking tools, each with a short 1-page comic instead of a 4,000 word man page.

Puzzled by ps? Flummoxed by find? Always wondered about awk? The Bite Size Command Line zine is here to help! Every page takes a command line tool and explains the most important things to know about it.

Bash scripts today are pretty much exactly the same as they were 15 years ago. So if you take the time today to learn the weird way bash works, everything you learn will still be true in 10 years. If you learn everything in this zine you’ll be way more comfortable with bash scripting than most programers. Also who wouldn’t want an excuse to learn Bash with this delicious cover?

You might think a zine won’t cutiefy your workspace but it will definitely improve your productivity! For those who want to get into Linux or who already are Linux users this zine is for you. You never know when you’ll be confused about a system call, or terms like “file descriptor,” this zine has all the important Linux concepts you’ll need. You’ll learn about threads, permissions, processes, memory allocation, mmap, shared libraries, and much more!