Nice comments#
Thank you to all the people who have made supportive, motivational comments in different ways over the years. It means a lot. And, if SKILSTAK has helped you in some way, please let us know.
It's about community
Rob started SKILSTAK, but it has always been the community that keeps SKILTAK going strong. Even Rob got his current corporate job through a SKILSTAK member referral.
Won't you join us?
- Name: Eva Feucht
Title: Director, Park Scholarships
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Congratulations! On behalf of North Carolina State University, I am
pleased to announce that [your community member] has been named
a Finalist for Park Scholarships, one of the most prestigious merit
scholarship programs in the nation. Thanks in part to your
thoughtful recommendation, our Selection Committee was able to gain
valuable insight into this student's exceptional qualifications.
- Name: Justine Okerson and Ann Smith
Title: Scholar Selection Team
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We are pleased to inform you that [your community member] is
a finalist for the Morehead-Cain, the first merit scholarship
program established in the United States.
- Name: Brent S. Clark
Title: Site Reliability Engineer, HomeAdvisor
Note: Sent "Thanks Award" for helping learn Linux
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Robert is a very skilled programmer. His ability to come up with
solutions to problems enables them to be resolved faster. I worked
with him as a Systems Administrator. He was able to use his skills
to automate many of the processes that made work much easier for the
rest of the team. His zeal for coding prompted other team members to
strengthen and/or learn programming skills.
- Name: Anonymous
Note: 'Started as "junior" developer for $100k annual salary'
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Rob helped me get out of retail and get work at a major software
company, using modern tools and technology. Along the way, I worked
on my own projects, learned how to use the linux command line like
a pro, and just learned a lot in general. Rob's mentorship has
definitely changed my life for the better!
- Name: Anonymous
Note: Comment from web site
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Just wanted to say your website has been hugely useful to me and
a few of my peers in scientific computing, who often need to use
terminal but are more focused on science than coding practices.
Please keep on adding to your website. I will definitely refer my
colleagues to it going forward :)
- Name: Anonymous
Note: Comment from web site
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Good site you have here. It's difficult to find high quality
writing like yours nowadays. I really appreciate people like you!
Take care!!
- Name: Ryan Brink
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I want to thank you for all of the amazing information & resources
that are available here on your site. It is always a pleasure when
I come here and see a new blog post -- even (especially) when the
subject matter goes over my head -- it shows how much room I have to
grow.) I have been visiting your site semi-frequently throughout
the year. It is amazing and encouraging to see how passionate you
are about getting others to understand technology on a deeper level.
I am a web developer who did not take the traditional college path
to get where I am (boot camp grad, please don't hold that against
me). When I visit SkilStak I view it as being like a path of
breadcrumbs leading me to the things that are important and that
I should be focusing my time & effort on learning. You have my
gratitude for so freely sharing such a vast amount of info, often in
areas that reveal to me where my tech "blind spots" are so that
I may delve deeper. My goal for 2020 is to have my personal website
up & running. SkilStak has been a big inspiration on my finally
putting in some work towards that goal.
Thank you for creating this amazing space for those of us who would
otherwise have never met you in person. Keep up the incredible
work!
PS - You may recall that we had a brief Twitter exchange several
months ago. I have been learning to do more on the terminal than
ever before, but I am still hoping for and looking forward to an
eventual Terminal Master course! Until then I will be following the
book you recommend here (Learning the Linux Command Line, complete
with Bash v4 - I installed Ubuntu last week and I can't wait to
become a true terminal master!)
- Name: Alastair
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Hi there. Just read you bad parent blog piece. You lost skilstak in
your medium/twitter handle so I thought I’d see what it is. Broken
by the looks of it. Good in you for becoming an educator. It’s not
easy but I hope it’s rewarding.
- Name: Anonymous
Note: Parent of a mentored community member
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Hi Rob - No reason for my email other than to say thank you for
everything you do for [our son]! He absolutely loves coding and his
hour with you is his favorite of the week. He spends his free time
working through the problems you help him come up with and he knows
what he wants to do with his life. We are so happy he has found
something he loves and just wanted to say thanks!"
- Name: Gabe Miller
Note: Employed at 16 as developer for solar energy company
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I have been with SkilStak for about 6 years now and it has been one
of the most valuable and impactful experiences in my life. I feel
that Mr. Rob has trained me extremely well and I feel prepared for
my future in programming and engineering. Mr. Rob has done so many
things for me over the years and caused me to get a extremely
valuable payed internship before I even finished High School, not to
mention multiple job offers with 6 digit salaries. I highly
recommend SkilStak for anyone who is interested in programming and
wants to be prepared for a career in programming and technology. It
has been more valuable than any other school of any kind that I have
been to. Mr. Rob and SkilStak taught me so much and prepared me for
even more. I wouldn't trade my experience there for anything in the
world.
- Name: Anonymous
Note: Solar energy company that employed Gabe Miller
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Rob, you referred Gabe Miller to us last year at ... he's been
amazing!
- Name: Anonymous
Note: Member of private mentored community
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Thank you so much for introducing me to coding! I have learned so
much. I love being able to create something anyone can enjoy. I hope
to see you in the Fall!"
- Name: Bob Theisen
Title: Network Engineering Instructor, Mitchel Community College
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I just want to encourage you to keep teaching. You’re gifts aren't
just technical. You are making more of an impact then you know.
- Name: Anonymous
Note: Parent of private mentored community member
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I just wanted to let you know that [my son] has really been enjoying
camp this week. He talks non-stop about it when he gets home. He’s
so excited about what he’s doing!! He just told me this has been the
best camp ever because they are learning and then get to play with
what what they learned. 😀
- Name: Mary Muchane
Note: Mother of private community member accepted to NCSSM
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Mur and I really, really believe in what Skilstak is about and what
you are doing and have done for dozens of young boys and girls.
Beyond the coding and the career preparation, Skilstak provides a ‘
place‘ for them and gives them the courage to wear their nerd badges
proudly. I don’t think it’s hyperbole to say that the impact of
Skilstak will last throughout their lives regardless of the
trajectory each takes.
- Name: Jennifer Miller
Note: Parent of private mentored community member
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My son attended the Minecraft camp today and is hooked! He is
registered for a coding class now every week! He just keeps thanking
us for finding this ‘cool’ place! I highly recommend for kids who
love technology and want to learn more!
- Name: Bella
Note: Private mentored community member
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I have enjoyed my time learning at Skilstak! My favorite thing is
that we are always changing and learning the newest available
material for web development. Most of my girl friends don’t like to
talk about code, but it is because they don’t understand it. I have
found other coding girls at Skilstak, I enjoy figuring out
assignments together with them and also working at my own pace.
- Name: Joni Dunn
Note: Parent of private mentored community member
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Rob does a fantastic job of engaging and teaching the kids without
them even knowing they‘re learning. :) We’ll be repeat customers
every time my grandson comes for a visit!
- Name: Dena Miller
Note: Mother of Gabe Miller
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My son has been attending SkilStak for almost four years now. He
started out in Code and Play and has progressed to Pro, gaining
invaluable coding skills and knowledge every step of the way! In
addition to classes, he has served as a TA or teacher’s assistant
and aspires to be an instructor as his part-time job during his high
school years. He has not only learned several coding languages, but
has acquired a valuable work ethic and sense of community and active
citizenship. I have no doubt, that he truly has discovered his
lifelong passion and career path while attending classes at
SkilStak. I am extremely grateful to Rob for providing my son with
his incredible coding abilities and life skills, and more
importantly, for serving as a mentor and positive male role model to
an impressionable teenager! I would wholeheartedly recommend the
SkilStak program as an extracurricular activity to any future coders
and their parents!
- Name: Sandy M.
Note: \"Happy Mom\" of private mentored community member
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Our quiet, unexcitable 11 year old son has been taking classes with
Rob and his crew at Skilstak going on 3 1/2 years. These classes are
a challenge that school can not provide. He says that they are just
fun and he likes creating on the computer. But we see much more! We
have seen him become more creative and analytical, confident,
independent, and self-sufficient. Mr. Rob has opened his eyes to
future job possibilities and the importance of professionalism and
good character. As well as legitimate computer programming
instruction. He can’t wait to go to the classes!
These classes are more than standard ‘summer camp’ computer classes.
Students are expected to actually learn different languages and
create programs. They will get certified at their own pace. And the
classes are challenging. We highly recommend Skilstak to anyone
wanting to do more than ‘play on a computer’.
- Name: savagebananasoup
Note: Message from Livestream Viewer
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I've been a 'software developer' (whatever that means) for a couple
of years, been using Linux as a hobbyist for 10 years and I'm
learning loads from this guy.
- Name: qmacro99
Note: Message from Livestream Viewer
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rwxrob's influence is all over my dotfiles now, bound into the way
I work.
- Name: Andriy Lapitskyy
Note: Message from Livestream Viewer
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Wanted to let you know I watched the 0-3 days [Beginner Boost] and
I liked what you had to say it's like you were speaking to my soul
😅
- Name: Lio Makki
Note: Message from Livestream Viewer
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Not everybody can recognize the value of Rob's content only the
intelligent people do.
- Name: Zer0CoolAZ
Note: Message from Livestream Viewer
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Just wanted to reach out and say thank you for the environment that
you've fostered thus far, it's always exciting to learn from someone
so versed. Your playlist selection has also been a live saver for
many early morning starts where dousing fires was needed and sanity
was slipping.
- Name: Randy
Note: Message from Livestream Viewer
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Hey Rob, I’m a fairly new viewer and wanted to say thank you for the
work you are doing to build your knowledge tools and the community
around it. But also for the free conversations and teachings you
are providing on YouTube. I agree 100% with your comments about
Facebook and Google and think your knowledge projects are
fascinating. But I also identity with your recent wisdom about
mentoring and teaching. I am 45 years old, graduated with a CS
degree in 2002, but because of various reasons I did not do well in
college and didn’t pursue programming until about 6 years ago.
Through that pursuit I found a job which lead to a second job which
had me working on projects with zero documentation with languages
I did not know. I struggled but eventually figured out what
I needed to get the work done, fix bugs, and add features. That was
until I burned out February of last year. Since then I’ve been on
my own path of self learning and healing.
So when I first heard you talk about what an autodidact was
I realized that I’ve already been doing that because I’ve had too.
And that I am being one now. Your conversations about all this has
given me context and validation. So once again thank you for
putting all this out there for people like me to see.
- Name: rossim2i2
Note: Message from Livestream Viewer
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This is such a small and trivial piece of code, but the amount I've
learned has been invaluable. Especially the feedback you've taken
the time to provide. [After woring on `cmdbox-isosec` with Git.]
- Name: iambrockvond
Note: Message from Livestream Viewer
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I am catching up with the Boosts on 2x. Not a beginner but it's
filling in tons of gaps. Wanted to say thank you for this. Excited
to catch up to live.
- Name: Mitchell Hynes:
Note: Message from YouTube Viewer
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Just watched your AMA comparing Rust hype to Node hype and as
a Rustacean of 2 years I couldn't agree more. It convinced me to not
put all my eggs in one basket and write more Go+C. Love your videos.
- Name: zbrow
Note: Message from YouTube Viewer
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Rob could do a video on addition and subtraction and I'd still find something to learn.
- Name: jaysega
Note: Message from Twitch and YouTube Viewer
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You know what's funny, after joining this stream just a few days
ago, I removed 95%+ of my twitch subs, and 99% of my youtube subs.
Signal to Noise ratio is real, made me realize how much noise I was
letting in. There are some true gurus I've also unsubbed just
because, right now I have to admit I cannot benefit from all of
them. It's not their fault they are just putting themselves out
there. But it's the rare few who are guru-ish status who also can
speak to newbs like myself.
- Name: almrotation
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I've only been here for about an hour and you've literally broken
the mental barrier in my head telling me I cant do this on my own
thank you for the wisdom and motivation.
- Name: lattjorr
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очень крута дед
- Name: cradersec
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I stumbled across your 2021 boost repo and I really appreciate the
way of thinking that you are promoting. I think it is rare in the
current time to have people advocating for critical thinking. Keep
up the good work.
- Name: ind1emonk3y
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I explained the very basic of what I learned from your Boost on
docker to friend telling him, I can explain you in less than
10minutes.... In the end, we played for one hour and he was amazed
by containers!
- Name: ChOkO08_
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I thought i knew shellscript until i came across @rwxrob streams :)
It's been really entertaining to "relearn" it with his examples.
- Name: goobus_maximus
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Yeah, I know this is a coding channel! Your Youtube vids have really
helped me - I'm nearly through an interview process for an MLOps
role & your content is a meaningful part of my success.
- Name: adykaaa
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man, I should watch you more, you are motivating as fuck
- Name: KonQuesting
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Becoming a "terminal native" has put me way ahead in that Amazon
training program I'm doing. Other people in there are network
engineers, Java developers, and they all think I'm hot shit. So
rob's knowledge has definitely been a great boon to me. And this
community is stacked with amazing people.
- Name: qt_pi3
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I feel like I've entered a new chapter in my life. I was living in
BRE (before rwxrob era) now im in RE (rwx rob era).
- Name: narendev
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Glad to be here , crunching through your beginner boost vids. They
are great as I learn more and more Linux in just few hours than
stacking up bunch of linux related books.
- Name: awptakesnoskill
Text: idk why but watching rob helps me focus
- Name: cronto82
Text: This is best channel on Twitch
- Name: stitchedd
Text: The beginner boost is the reason I started using Linux. I cant imagine going back.
- Name: HeavyDrinker90210
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When considering "Standing on the shoulders of giants"; you are one
of this giants. o7 sir.
- Name: KennithNichol
Text: Your scripts are artisan level.
- Name: archification
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Hello sir rob. Not sure if you feel like reading or responding to
chat right now but I just wanted to thank you. You don't know it but
you helped me through a few dark times in my life. I'm starting my
first job in 10 years 2 hours from now. From nothing to database
admin.
- Name: thed2
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guys, fyi the beginner boosts that rob is doing are really helpful,
got my knowledge and first job in cybersecurity with his boosts :)
- Name: CuriousE1k
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I've learned a lot from you even though i'm here infrequently. It's
helped me greatly in my career as a SDET and advancing my knowledge
and i'm going to be continuing it and the self education as
a result. You helped me not give up. So thank you.
- Name: miluba86
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I'm in health it so I am behind 5 to 10 years technology wise... do
still doing java and angular... but cloud movement change this
radically... we need k8s so questions arise... why JVM in
Containers... why so much ram consumption... so I started learning
go got good advice in here... so thank you Rob and community for
your help!
- Name: be1ancour
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I need to tell you I copy some stuff from your Workspace container
and make my own personalized. Still is in progress I will use it for
Java development I want to express my gratitude for real these
videos of beginner boost helped me a lot.
- Name: KonQuesting
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I just got a job offer for the most money I've ever made in my life.
Never worked in IT before, only FOSS experience. I owe you for
giving me the confidence to believe I could be "enterprise ready"
with strong fundamentals, and cover my knowledge gaps as an
autodidact.
- Name: ohyounaasty
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hey there, stumbled across your youtube a while ago and it inspired
me to remove all my text editors and just use vim all the time
(something i've been meaning to do for 10+ years) - just wanted to
thank you, it's been transformative, really
- Name: ghost_steve
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Hey Rob I see your busy, just wanted to say thank you for these
streams got me a job as Infrastructure eng.
- Name: youaresourcecode
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I personally think Rob is best example of what's programming
means... I imagine unix core creators designing and programming unix
operating system kind of like Rob shows us in his streams. Keep it
up Rob!!!!!
- Name: rwxLethalz
Text: >-
Cause of rob ive gotten a job as a network tech making 25 hr just
a start but it helps.
- Name: Wxaaz
Text: >-
im from africa and a company in europe accepted me , my life
probably gonna change , but without the fuel i've once, i would
never sacrifice this far, so thank you so much
- Name: qaerst
Text: >-
I've literally built out my future career path on your advice , and
it helped me immensly. If you're ever in the EU , beer is on me.
- Name: rwillex
Text: >-
I just want to share with you that I got a "devops" job. Thank you so
much for all the help, and also the beginner boost helped me a lot.
- Name: IMExploder
Text: I got my first k8s job last week, partly because of you.
- Name: oppp20039
Text: >-
What I like most about Rob is that he is not a nerd. I can't stand
nerds and never been able to be friend with one but this is one of
the few channels where a human is actually streaming. Maybe because
you talk about your life, maybe because you have strong opinions,
maybe because you understand life and things outside of coding.
- Name: appproachsloth
Text: Rob is going to make a new standard I swear.
- Name: (anonymous)
Text: >-
I wouldn't have even gotten into vim and shell scripts if not for
the content I found through this stream.
- Name: flipmybit
Text: >-
Yo I just started Ashtanga yoga after seeing it here and I am loving
it so far.
- Name: rossim2i2:
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I used everything I learned here to write a Windows script
(basically wrote it in Bash and retrfit it to Windows Script) to
solve an issue at work. Not only did it impress my new boss (our
CIO), but also saved 5-10k in outsourced dev costs.
- Name: GamingDizzyfly
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I somehow landed a "cloud consultant" role. I have to thank
u profusely for ur content and for inspiring me.
- Name: touch_beans
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I got a job directly out of HS pretty much due to what I’ve learned
from you. Not only that, but you helped me build a lifelong passion
purely by showing me what a passionate programmer is and what makes
programming exciting. For that, thank you.
- Name: alonsete14
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just want to say I have found a job as backend dev with Go, your
streaming has motivated me a lot, thanks Rob!
- Name: anonymous
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You've changed my life man, even though i'm just some pixels on your
monitor that sometimes pops up. Couple months ago I was puking due
to working 18 hour days for big oil, being so stressed that my hair
turned grey at my early 20's. Now I am able to send my mother on
a nice vacation and take care of my family :)
- Name: Dorinpedala
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Hi there Rob, I am a sysadmin from Romania, finally I get to thank
you for the Beginner Boost you've done in 2020! Thanks to you
I landed the job of my life and got to play with a lot tone of
awesome tech!
- Name: Himthecool21
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Whenever I watch your stream I get soo productive.
- Name: desire_nothing:
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Hello rwxrob, how are you? First of all, thank you for all the
beginner boosts, you are the hero that we wanted and needed.
Sincerely, thank you. I wanted to ask because I am starting the
previous year BB with docker, you mention wsl2, but is it possible
to set it up with git bash? Thank you in advance and please keep
being so awesome, you are changing our lives for the better!
I can't thank you enough and you have no idea how much I respect
you for what you do for us - the community. A pure gem and I am
happy that I discovered your channel so early in my dev career.
Keep up being awesome!
- Name: ChadWickTC
Text: Fun fact. You helped me land a job as a Cloud Linux Engineer. I start Dec 1st.
- Name: ping_ochio
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Rob is an artist from the IT world, his room is his atelier, the
keyboard is his color palette, the terminal is his canvas, Twitch,
Youtube and github are his exhibition galleries. Kappa
- Name: Carson
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hey rob, this is your former student carson here if you happen to
remember me. trouble falling asleep right now and I was just
thinking about all those years I disliked you after you 'kicked me
out' when you downsized to private lessons, but I never have really
appreciated the gift you gave me until right about now. This funky
english with all sorts of weird symbols is soemthing not a lot of
people are capable of grasping, and yet you made it so easy and
I never really ever got to thank you
- Name: sstichedd
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Every time I see you reference Zet, I smile. Your stream is the
reason I started using Linux 3 years ago. That is the time USING
computers started making sense to me. I am now starting my first
tech related job at 40 years old. When I started using vim to
manipulate code, and saw how it connected seamlessly with Linux, It
changed everything for me. No college degree, no education to speak
of, but I got hired on for the city of San Diego, CA as a data entry
specialist simply because of the skills I learned. Most of those
skills learned here, haha
- Name: x_sharkuni_x
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You are a great teacher with a soothing voice full of knowledge.
- Name: illusion4u
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Hey, Rob. How are you? Just dropping by to let you know, I'm
employed. I start tomorrow morning. You have been truly helpful for
me. See you, have a good hacking session
- Name: Kano_steam
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I was able to land a full time junior position with no degree
because of you. Thank you for everything you do.
- Name: AntNem_
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I just want to say thank you @rwxrob for being a positive influence
in my life <3
- Name: adrnlnJnky
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I want to share: I took your Linux class in 2020 during the Covid lockdown.
I took your course then, from there I learned Go, then randomly Elixir and
now I have a job as a developer. That course your did for free was the jump
point that got me moving forward with traction...
- Name: Dizzyfly
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Hi Rob! I hope all is well. I landed and kept my job thanks to your 2021
boost series on YouTube.
- Name: Anyascii
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They haven't invented a title yet for the type of influencer you are.
- Name: Alex
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Not sure if you remember me. I was at SkilStaks when it was in Cornelius around when I was in middle school or something and just wanted to thank you for all your teaching as now I'm a Freshman at UNC Charlotte and I was able to use what I learned all the way back then with Python to actually be able to test out of one of my classes.
- Name: Mehmet
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Hey Rob, I wanted to thank you personally for all the content you've been putting out for a number of years, it actually helped me get a linux focused aws platform engineer role in London a couple of years back!
- Name: Rando
Text: ->
Something else.