Cisco Meraki Intern Interview Experience

My name is Carter and I’m a 3rd year computer science student from Oregon State University. I’ve worked for 3 years at OSU as an informational technology technician and web developer, have published and contributed to a decent amount of open source software, and have only had one small internship in high school as a...

Thread & The State of the Smart Home

8/5/2024: Updated to add details from Nest Hub (2nd gen) testing. Introduction I’ve been using smart home devices for many years now as an early adopter of the Amazon Echo and Google Home. I was immediately impressed with the capabilities of Google Assistant, but over the years I have become more dissatisfied with Google as...

Learning React / Next.js from a Vue developer’s perspective

First things first, I wouldn’t necessarily consider myself a “Vue Developer”. I have a few years of experience working in Vue, but I’m by no means a professional. I started learning Vue in 2020, but only really started building projects with it in late 2021. Since then it’s been my primary framework, and over the...

Introducing Rack Manage

Background As an IT technician, one problem my team and I have faced is trying to track down a specific piece of equipment in one of our many server and network rooms. As a university IT team consisting of mostly students, we have a lot of new and inexperienced technicians not familiar with our server...

Software Highlight: TechFont

Working on a portfolio or similar project where you want icons to display what tech stack you’re using? TechFont is here to help. I usually turn to Font Awesome for any project in need of icons, but they don’t have brand icons for everything, and the ones they do have don’t support multi-color. To my...