I came across a tweet last week which contained some things I had not yet tried:

In this post I will demonstrate how to significantly enhance the abilities of any LLM model, as long as it is competent enough to write workng Python code and make tool calls:

This last week, on Monday 28th April, Cisco released Fondation-Sec-8B:

Today I passed the Azure Renewal for Microsoft Certified: Azure Network Engineer Associate assessment, renewing the Azure Network Engineer Associate certification for a further year.

Today I passed the AWS ANS-C01 exam, earning the Advanced Networking - Specialty certification:

This last week, I setup PrivateGPT with LlamaCpp:

Recently I’ve been playing with the open source Whisper, and setup an iOS shortcut which I can share a video/audio file to:

Following on from the previous post, I have been experimenting with VS Code Tunnels: from code.visualstudio.com

Today I completed the two courses required for the AI-Ready Rackspace Credly badge:

Today I passed the Azure AZ-700 exam, Designing and Implementing Microsoft Azure Networking Solutions, earning the Azure Network Engineer Associate certification.

The new Rev Up to Recert Bonus learning paths were announced today:

Today I completed the Design and Implement Microsoft Azure Networking Solutions learning path:

Since starting the blog nearly 2 months ago, I’ve used the following setup:

Today I completed the Understanding Cisco Network Automation Essentials (DEVNAE) learning path on Cisco U. as part of the latest Rev Up to Recert offering:

The new Network Automation learning path was announced yesterday:

First proper post - more tools to be added soon:

List of active certs: