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I was sitting in a livestream today with Chuck, Jeremy, Anthony, and Zach. Chuck said something about getting his CCNP if 1,000 people earned their CCNA. The crowd went nuts. And somewhere in that noise, I made a decision I've been circling for a long time. I&
The ping worked on the first try, after a couple hours. My home network is not a lab. It's the network my wife and daughter use every day, which means the unspoken design constraint is that Netflix must never go down. Korean dramas do not pause themselves, and
I should have been annoyed. But I wasn't. It was one of those days where the work just flows. Small projects stacking up and getting knocked down one at a time, the kind of momentum you don't want to interrupt because once it's gone
I was today years old when I finally understood the real reason we need Spanning Tree Protocol. That sentence is embarrassing to type. I have a CCNA. I work at NetworkChuck Academy. I am around networking content and networking people every day. And yet, until recently, I did not actually
There's this thing people say now: that the tools are changing us. That we're losing something. That the person who used to sit down and think through a problem is being slowly replaced by the person who asks a machine to think for them, and honestly,
About All This AI Stuff... I am, by every measurable standard, more capable than I was a year ago. That's not nothing. The AI tools I've folded into my workflow, largely Claude Code and OpenAI, have genuinely expanded what I can accomplish — whole categories of work
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It may sound a bit meta at this point of development in regard to this website (after all, it started as a way to share my current learning in the tech field), but I think this is a useful stratagem in enabling others to do the same. My aim is
I'm one of the lucky ones. This may not come as a surprise to you, but in the face of the statistics pointing to an ever-decreasing demand to attend and complete a bachelor's course, somehow I managed to pass that milestone, land a job in my