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Posts by charlieseay.bsky.social
Hone Academy just launched and it's for everyone grinding through homelabs and cert prep. Upload your notes, get quizzes. Track what you know, find the gaps. Free to start. https://hone.academy
Bench MCP hit 100 GitHub stars. No launch post, just utility: connect Claude to databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQLite, MongoDB) through natural language.
What worked: protocol-first design, schema awareness, real workflows (not demos).
Full breakdown: [LINK]
Stop Guessing If You'll Pass
Cert prep is just BBQ with a textbook. Low and slow beats hot and fast — and I built a thermometer.
https://charlieseay.com/blog/cert-prep-readiness/
I built a free cert exam readiness calculator.
Studying for CompTIA, CCNA, CISSP? Enter your score per domain. It weights them like the real exam and tells you if you're ready.
No account. No email. Just an answer.
https://hone.academy/tools/cert-calculator
I built an app that turns classic books into text conversations for kids. AI illustrations, read-aloud, and kids can write their own stories.
Books are losing to screens. So I made the book feel like the screen.
https://enchapter.kids
https://apps.apple.com/app/enchapter/id6760512360
One Claude, Two Lives
How a symlink and a git repo evolved into a full portable toolkit — agents, templates, skills, and a drift check that keeps two separate environments in sync without mixing data.
https://charlieseay.com/blog/one-claude-two-lives/
I Almost Built an MCP Server to Solve a Problem That Needed a Symlink
How I set up portable Claude Code context across two machines — and why the first plan was four layers of infrastructure too many.
https://charlieseay.com/blog/portable-claude-context/
Closing the Gap: How a Mac Mini and AI Reignited 20 Years of Ideas
I've had a notebook full of ideas for two decades. The gap was never imagination — it was execution. Here's what finally closed it.
https://charlieseay.com/blog/closing-the-gap/
Closing the Gap: How a Mac Mini and AI Reignited 20 Years of Ideas
I've had a notebook full of ideas for two decades. The gap was never imagination — it was execution. Here's what finally closed it.
https://charlieseay.com/blog/closing-the-gap/