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Claude Code Certification Practice Application

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How I Used Claude Code to Build My Own Practice Exam for the Claude Certified Architect Certification From a 40-page exam guide to an interactive study system and a passing score — in a single session. Anthropic recently launched the Claude Certified Architect – Foundations certification, a scenario-based exam that validates whether practitioners can make real architectural decisions when building production systems with Claude. When I got my hands on the 40-page exam guide, I didn't just read it. I put Claude Code to work and had it build me a complete study system from scratch — then used it to pass my own practice exam. Here's how the whole thing came together. The Challenge The exam guide is dense. It covers five weighted domains: Domain Weight Agentic Architecture & Orchestration 27% Tool Design & MCP Integration 18% Claude Code Configuration & Workflows 20% Prompt Engineering & Structure...
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I Made AI Sort a Decade of My Bad Photos

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  The Problem I had an old iPhoto library sitting on an HFS-formatted drive from my Mac days — about 49 GB of photos and videos spanning 2008 to 2014. Wedding photos, vacations to Ireland and Amsterdam, years of phone camera snapshots, screenshots, pet photos, food pics — the full spectrum of a decade of digital life. I'd already extracted the files from the HFS drive onto my Windows PC using an HFS utility, which preserved the original iPhoto Masters folder structure organized by year. But now I had a new problem: I wanted to upload the photos that actually mattered — the ones with people in them — to cloud storage. And I was staring down 8,271 image files. Nobody wants to manually click through 8,000 photos to decide "person or landscape?" one at a time. That's easily 10-15 hours of mind-numbing work. There had to be a better way. The Idea: Let a Vision AI Do the Looking I'd been running LM Studio on my local machine — it's a desktop app that lets you run o...
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