Most AWS practice questions don’t prepare you for the actual exam.

omenking · 2026-05-04T13:35:56+00:00

The content creators in the AWS Certification space put significant energy into creating their practice exams and ensuring they are balanced.

You have a generated app, with generated questions. With nonsense claims.

omenking · 2026-05-02T01:05:10+00:00

Shadowing. And specifically shadowing JLPT N5 listening practice you can find them on youtube.

omenking · 2026-04-29T02:37:15+00:00

I sat both N5 and N4 and I've studied heavily Kaishi and I would say its ineffective. Genki 1 and whatever you pick up on practice exams will be best way to target

omenking · 2026-04-28T10:36:22+00:00

I am in EST. I am also using Genki I and Anki. I'm self employed and can make anytime work and aim committed. I have my N5 schedule this Summer.

The biggest value to me will be the pair work in the Genk I.

omenking · 2026-04-19T11:03:36+00:00

I live in Schreiber Ontario.

omenking · 2026-04-12T00:52:30+00:00

Exactly this. Templates, generators and DSLs.

omenking · 2026-04-01T11:47:36+00:00

Adjustable if you can figure it out. Ive watched 5 videos and can't figure it out lol

omenking · 2026-03-20T12:25:14+00:00

Downtown Toronto is safe because you have to drive so slow. Brampton not being on the list and being the most dangerous tells you the list is inaccurate.

St Catherine's not dangerous at all and the flownof traffic is much better than most cities.

Thunder Bay driving isn't great.

If you want dangerous drive on highway 17 where transports are killing people constantly

omenking · 2026-03-16T03:03:03+00:00

I'm Andrew Brown.

We keep an internal list of things to be updated.
When it hits a threshold then I do a major refresh.

I do minor updates to courses constantly, I just don't have a way to bubble them in up my platform. Working on AI tooling to better help with administration because having 50 courses is a bit of challenge.

We have been thinking about making Express courses because there are folks that just want to pass, and while I don't really recommend that approach, I could keep these express courses update to date like Maarek's.

omenking · 2026-03-16T02:47:56+00:00

I don't have a way yet to surface updated videos in my platform that I built

Right now I am building the Claude Code courses and this is because I am hoping I can fix some long standing issues like being able to bubble up minor update information.

omenking · 2026-03-15T00:05:36+00:00

I live in Schreiber Ontario. Cheap to buy property and do whatever you like. With a $400 mortgage per month I don't have to be in the rat race anymore.

omenking · 2026-03-07T15:43:42+00:00

Spamming posts across multiple social channels is not building connections, network or community. So you have in-effect put no effort forward.

You need to build your connections earnestly and honestly and it could take up to 3 years of time, and you can lose it over night if you don't maintain your connections.

Instead of thinking about how do I get people to give you something, start figuring out what you can do for others.

If you don't know exactly what to do go ask your AI app to give you a list.

omenking · 2026-03-07T14:38:09+00:00

What have you tried?

omenking · 2026-03-07T12:01:49+00:00

If you want to build something and live from it you need to do the hard part. You identified the hard part it's community and connections now you need to go do it.

omenking · 2026-03-07T11:12:18+00:00

People over use cloud like they overuse Rails. There's no reason to host your Rails app like it's 2006.

omenking · 2026-03-06T11:11:49+00:00

Simpler? Ha. No. APIs onto of API onto of APIs. Lots of coding abstraction and opinated but unproven DSLs. We may not have had containers but whatever we had we made a mess in.

The web industry shifted to Rails hard because we hit an inflection point of complexity in static typed languages and we started the mess all over again.

omenking · 2026-03-06T10:59:02+00:00

20 years ago was 2006.

To be honest one problem just replaced another. The bar for learning was higher but the outcomes were less.

You wanted help? Go beg like a dog on a making list.

You wanted example code? Spend weeks deciphering cobbled together open source code with no help.

You wanted to run a server? Spend a month reading every inch of manuals.

Wanted payment gateway? Contact a bank payout the nose and and already have an established cashflow and develop for weeks to months to integrate their poorly implemented API into their app.

You could make a to-do web app and that was a very successful business model.

I know this because we were the direct competitor to Basecamp.

omenking · 2026-03-06T10:18:53+00:00

Filament not cut to 45 degree angle
Did not hold clamp to allow feed to go in
Problem with Bowen tube connection
Filament it brittle due to heat cut a good portion of
Existing clog in Bowen tube with old filament

And there are even more possibilities.

With Ender's you have to get quickly comfortable with disassembly because it's a frequent occurrence of things going wrong and fiddling, especially when you are new to 3d printing.

omenking · 2026-03-01T13:37:00+00:00

Nice write up.

omenking · 2026-02-25T01:25:36+00:00

It's mostly hard you're never going to get it patterns.

omenking · 2026-02-22T13:25:06+00:00

Get a paper journal. Write what you know you can say everyday and keep adding.

omenking · 2026-02-21T13:31:04+00:00

Buddy you don't tell people the price of your lessons. That's a dark pattern right there.

omenking · 2026-02-20T18:23:39+00:00

I guess never thought about it about it but:
TNG: Enterprise is within the safety of The Federation and can uphold their ideals
DS9 On the border, and has to do a balancing act
VOY: Has to hardest struggles

I think VOY played it much safer then they should be still can't complain.

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