Welcome to Tech Updates: #8. You can read the updates below, or watch the video version on YouTube. Embedded here for your enjoyment!
Anyways, on to the updates. Links to relevant YouTube videos if you want to dive deeper. Enjoy!
Week of 2/8/26
Research and Learning:
Switched out VirtualBox for virt-manager and Qemu / KVM virtualization for small projects.
Playing and learning what all I can do with Opus 4.6.
Reading up on Codex. (makes me want a Mac…)
Future Research to do:
Maybe swap out elevenlabs api for other voices.
Agentic coding course.
Get PAI upgraded to 2.5.
Vercel and Supabase.
commands to remember:
qemu-img convert -f vdi -O qcow2 ~/VirtualBox\ VMs/VMname/VMname.vdi ~/VMs/VMname.qcow2 -p
Improvements:
Got the $50 overage credit from Anthropic.
Wrote 10 blog posts for my Infosec Consulting page.
documented the list of tools to use for engagements.
Created pricing plan for services.
Worked 2 hours on my resume with AI. still another hour to do.
Built a skills and accomplishment inventory to reference when creating tailored resumes.
Built a dev version of my wife’s business website to show her designs and prep upcoming changes.
Wrote a Davinci Resolve updater script for Arch Linux that automates it.
Created a public version and released it to GitHub.
Pushed multiple updates when creating a video demo and ran into errors on fresh installs vs established systems.
Created a PDF resource as a lead magnet to be published soon on Gumroad.
Created a video intro for a new section coming on my YouTube channel.
Mistakes:
Thinking dependency installs on a fresh vm that had to compile would be fast. (qt5-webengine)
Thinking I could get a quick video recorded, edited, and published in an hour.
That’s it for this week’s Tech Update. -Derek
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