@Ashley Medina appreciate the supportive words! So that's just the first lesson for PY101, every lesson after that will have actual lesson breakdowns. It's got some content now but the study guides are not finalized. I'm trying to balance my courses and creating the study guides. In an ideal world, I'm hoping to get help filling out the study guides. On the about page, I added instructions with an email to send notes to for anyone who wishes to contribute.

@Ashley Medina thanks so much!

I'm guessing that would be a cross-origin error that's blocking the redirect (to prevent cross-site tracking behavior) not allowing sign in with google to work. Somebody check the console lol

my network gear is pretty simple. i used to use TP-Link hardware, but then I tried an Eero mesh router because it was included without equipment fee with my fiber internet. So basically just an Eero Pro 6 with a gigabit switch hooked up to it. then i just use Tailscale to make everything an accessible node. I'm sure there's a much more complex, control-oriented way to set that up, but tailscale made it so easy, I hadn't bothered yet.

I've wanted to create a PiHole device forever for ad blocking, but Raspberry Pi pricing and always being out of stock, makes it not worth it for me. If I can ever snag a Pi Zero W 2 for $20 or less, I'll take a day to set it up. I'd love if I could fix my old 3d printer too and then start printing SBC enclosures. I just have too many projects, like most people I suppose. Lately, I've been obsessed with repurposing LCD and OLED panels from laptops into portable/stationary monitors. I don't know what it is, but I'm OBSESSED.

I think it's because ChatGPT has been seriously limiting token usage lately. i kept hitting limits using it for maestro notes once i stopped paying for ChatGPT plus and went back to free. back to Gemini it is. there are some days where I get 100 prompts out of gemini and don't even hit the limit. but it doesn't format the notes quite as nicely as ChatGPT. so it's a tradeoff.

I also want to get together a quick list of resources like the contact emails, grounded information about disbursements, we can put the link to the forms many of us had to manually ask for. @Maestro Collective gave us the contact emails in a list which was awesome and it's actually how i got ahold of the president of the college about my financial aid disbursements. that type of stuff for new and existing students would be great. It's gonna have links to go back to the skool group and also to go to all the essential parts of maestro so it's actually somewhat convenient. there's gonna be comments only and you'll be able to add a profile picture and your cohort. but it's not meant to replace the social aspect of this group at all. just a way to give people down the road who don't have a skool account or don't know about it to check it out. maybe inquiring students even. it'll also have a direct link back to this skool group that way more students can eventually join. but you have to sign in to comment in the current iteration. maybe more features could be added but the focus is studying to accompany maestro practice and maestro support. TL;DR: I'm gonna add a survival guide style resource list to the site now, and then I'm gonna start adding content. No registration requirement + will have sign in with google integrated so you only need a maestro edu email to be able to comment on posts, add cohort, and change profile picture. not meant to be full on social. just meant to give another cohesive resource for new and existing students in AI Software Engineering.

one last design tweak to give the sidebar more depth.