Thanks, that's kind of you to say. One of my favorite parts of my job is I am surrounded by really smart engineers who I constantly learn new things from. In this case, Marek spent a bunch of time with me walking through the innards of how Linux sets up a socket. Was a lot of fun to learn about and write up. If you want an even more technical post on the subject, you should check out his blog:
You mean he didn't just tell you to go read Beej's guide [0]?
Joking aside, I really enjoy reading Cloudflare's blog posts. I know they don't just pop into existence without some serious effort. Thanks for taking them seriously.
https://idea.popcount.org/2014-04-03-bind-before-connect/