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How an Effective Python chapter turned into a real refactor of the Learn to Cloud Linux CTF setup.

What the CTF timer actually measures, a small but important fix I shipped, and why I decided not to change the underlying model.

A practical guide to adding Ollama support to Python teaching samples with clean environment config, provider switching, devcontainers, compatibility testing, and local embeddings.

because my phone is purely a communication tool.

From learning new things about myself to understanding why I behave in certain ways, from improving my faults to overcoming trauma, and overall becoming a better person, in moments of deep loneliness and despair, as well as during periods of intense curiosity and feeling lost, I have always turned first to books for guidance.

https://youtu.be/ImYou1c-ocM

I'm not here to baby you, here's the truth.

It takes me 30 seconds to deploy a VM with the cli vs 6 ish minutes in the portal...

Oh Docker... let's get started.

testing one two testing...

Link all the things

It's often useful to make copies of things an move large collections of files from place to place.

Powerful pipelines!

It's often useful to compare versions of text files.

There are two types of variables: shell and environment.

A process is a program that is running and a Linux system typically has hundreds of processes running simultaneously.

No, everyone should not be root.

Download all the things!

Almost everything is a text file in Linux.

This image is old!

locate, whereis, which and find commands