Made it to Season 3 of #AnimalKingdom

To fall asleep, you first must pretend to be asleep Apply that to your goals

10 years in the garage. 3 years of late-night coding. Now I’m in tech, and teaching others how to get here. Keep going. You’re closer than you think.

I got the job 🏁🏁 Started this week

After about 3 months without issues, Manjaro Linux crashed on my Mac 😔 Such a let down. Definitely has been my favorite OS. Currently switching to Linux Mint

Bernie Mac was so funny. A homeless guy walked up to his window and said he hadn't eaten food in a week. Bernie replied, "I wouldn't even worry about it. Food still tastes the same." 😂😂😂😂 RIP

Bad Bunny will perform at the next Super Bowl halftime show 🏈

Hummer EV

6 before 6 🏃🏿‍♂️🏃🏿‍♂️

I keep seeing those 15 foot skeletons in everyone’s neighborhood 😂

She won this trend

In my head:

“Your NETwork is your NET WORTH”

10-33!!

I hope we can do this all season

TOUCHDOWN!!!!!! @wshcommanders.bsky.social

It’s all coming together 💭👨🏽‍💻

Gotta hit up Fogo De Lion when I’m back in GA

Note to anyone working on growing in their career: Keep a brag document. 📝 It’s basically a running list of your achievements in your current role: -Projects you’ve completed -Tickets you’ve independently closed -Positive customer feedback -Metrics you’ve improved

The number of messages I get every month from strangers asking me to build their app or hear their app idea for FREE is wild. I don’t think most people realize how much work actually goes into getting an app live on the market.

8 more classes and I’m done 🏁🏁 #wgu

I’ll be at @allthingsopen.bsky.social in Raleigh Let’s connect!

My goal is to finish 3 courses this week Submitted one yesterday 🏁 Taking my ITIL 4 Foundation exam tomorrow and submitting my C# project Sunday

If you had the chance to give a keynote talk at a tech conference for software developers, What would YOU speak about?

Me all week — not evil tho😂, just finally reaching the goals I’ve been grinding for… now just sitting back and enjoying the peace

They asked this businessman why he consults his wife on every purchase, he replied, “I make a lot of money, but she makes sure I don’t run out of it.” 🎯🎯🎯

Excited to share this news. I’ll give it two more weeks.

This morning, there was a venomous snake on our doorstep. I happened to look down instead of at my phone, and it was staring directly at me and my fiancée. Thank goodness I was paying attention! Had to call my neighbor to get it removed It's on the list of top 5 deadliest snakes on the East Coast

The Marsha Ambrosius remix is absolute genius open.spotify.com/track/348qRx...

I had the craziest dream and woke up laughing 😂😂😂

Finished! Check my YT

Soon as I hear “Hello, I’m Derick Washington” I know I’m going to laugh 😂😂

Making a Network Security Lab using Manjaro Linux I’ve been editing the video for a few hours, but I’m almost done 🎥

Never had a frozen Old Fashioned so had to try it.

Total study time: one week Get familiar with EVERY service Know what it does and how it’s different from the others(Trusted Advisor, Organizations, Control Tower) Use an LLM for review I utilized CoPilot Less about implementation. That’s for the Solutions Architect

I passed 🏁🏁

This has to be the most boring certification I’ve studied for 😂😴

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Happy Friday 🌮🍻

Scheduled to take my AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner this Saturday at 4PM Once I pass, I’m scheduling my Solutions Architect

Dope when you meet other people genuinely excited about the same topic and y’all start nerding out 😂 We got off topic about 3x yesterday discussing .NET and app development

You’re already living an answered prayer—you just didn’t see it. 🙏🏽 Stop chasing the next step and start filling the void with the journey. ✨ Happiness isn’t at the finish line; it’s in the pursuit.

Interview went really well. Glad I put in the time to learn Linux, Terraform, and AWS.. it paid off. The role is a nice mix of DevOps and software engineering, and it feels good to finally be qualified for positions like this instead of getting ghosted like before.

How you do one thing is how you do everything