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9 Hours to Give Back to Jake Van Clief
Jake's stepdaughter is in 2nd place in a competition to work with wild life rescues. There's 9 hours left in the competition and that means you can still make a difference!!!! This community that he started has given us so much value. We have power here--it's a chance to give back! I was once a little girl with big dreams and not a lot of people in my corner. If you have the chance to help change someone's life with a couple of clicks, you should do that. Go team humanity! Go to this post and then vote from there: https://www.skool.com/cliefnotes/i-come-asking-for-help?p=6a891883 Good luck Wylder!!!
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Welcome to Clief Notes. Here's where to start.
1. Watch the intro video and introduce yourself in the intro post here 2. Start with The Foundation (free course). Concepts, folder architecture, prompting framework. Everything else builds on this. 3. Check in at the bottom of each lesson. Polls, discussion posts, other members working through the same stuff. Use them. 4. When you're ready to build real things, move to Implementation Playbooks (Level 2). When you're ready to build your own tools, Building Your Stack (Level 3). 5. Post your work. Ask questions. Help others when you can. What are you here to build?
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🏆 WEEKLY COMP #3: THE SPECIALIST 🏆
💰 $325 CASH PRIZE 💰 That's a full year of Premium. Win this and your membership pays for itself. 📋 THE CHALLENGE You just got hired again. Different client this time. Meet Sarah, a freelance copywriter who's drowning in context-switching. 📎 Download the full client brief attached to this post. Short version: She works with three types of clients (SaaS founders, ecommerce brands, local service businesses) and starts from scratch every project. She doesn't need another tool. She needs a system. Your job is to build her a folder-based AI specialist she can drop into any Claude project. The folder IS the deliverable. 🗂️ THIS WEEK YOU LEARN ICM Up until now, comps have been "build a thing." This week you utilize the methodology taught throughout the community. 🧠 Folders as architecture. That's it. That's the whole concept this week. Your specialist is a folder with five things: - 📄 identity.md (who they are) - 📐 rules.md (how they respond) - 💬 examples.md (what good looks like) - 📚 reference/ (source material) - 📖 README.md (how to use it) Drop the folder into a Claude project. Claude becomes the specialist. Reusable. Shareable. Portable. 🎯 PICK YOUR SPECIALIST Don't pick copywriting. That's Sarah's example. Pick something YOU would actually use. A few sparks to get you thinking: - A salary negotiation coach - A meal planner that knows your dietary restrictions - A code reviewer for your stack - A real estate market analyst for your city - A technical recruiter screener - A grant writer for nonprofits in your space The more specific, the better. "Marketing expert" is not a specialist. "B2B email expert for enterprise SaaS targeting CFOs" is. 💼 WHY THIS ONE LANDS ON YOUR RESUME Real talk. Winning a comp in a Skool community doesn't get you a job by itself. But shipping a working folder-based AI specialist with a clean README and a public repo? That's a portfolio piece.
StreamPass — passwords from the vault at the press of a button
The problem I'm trying to solve - or another project I am working on: At my company, our DevOps and Product Support engineers log into customer environments every day — often Oracle schema passwords during installations, often deep inside nested RDP sessions. In a growing number of those customer environments, copy/paste is hard-blocked: the clipboard isn't passed through, and is sometimes actively blocked by the RDP client or by endpoint security. The current workaround is grim: you type the password by hand, once, into a Notepad window inside the customer environment, and paste it from there. Not just clumsy — at customers with session recording, the tape simply captures that password as an image. Nobody is happy about it. What we do have: a central password vault. What it can't do: reliably type into one of these locked-down RDP sessions. KeePassXC's auto-type breaks in restricted customer RDPs; the internal tool can't talk to hardware at all. StreamPass is my attempt to close that last mile: one press on a physical device = the password is typed as keystrokes into the focused window, with no clipboard, no visible intermediate step, and the central vault as the source of truth. Two hardware routes A key discovery during the research phase: not every "macro keypad" behaves the same way through RDP and restrictive customer environments. I distinguish two classes. Class 1 — a real USB HID keyboard. The device itself identifies to Windows as a keyboard and sends keystrokes via the kernel driver path. To the OS, it's indistinguishable from a regular Logitech. For StreamPass, the chosen class-1 candidate is the Adafruit MacroPad RP2040 — 12 keys, OLED display, rotary encoder, around €60, programmable in CircuitPython or QMK, and interesting because it's open hardware, meaning we can flash our own firmware onto it. Class 2 — a programmable HID device that requires host software. The device itself isn't a keyboard; a driver or plugin on the PC calls SendInput(). The long-standing assumption was that this route would be useless in restrictive RDP — the same reasons that auto-type fail should also apply here. Empirics disagree. Tested example: the Elgato Stream Deck Mini. Inside a customer RDP session where
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