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tarting from zero, my Level 1 IT certification project

Sun, 26 Apr 2026 22:20:00 +0000

I’ve been quietly working through a structured IT certification project for about a year and I figured it was time to actually write about it. This post is the first in a series documenting the whole journey, starting at the beginning: Level 1 certifications.

The idea behind Level 1s is simple. Before you specialise, you need a solid foundation across the landscape of IT. These are the “fundamentals” and “essentials” certs, the ones that prove you know what cloud computing is, what cybersecurity looks like, and how modern productivity platforms fit together. They’re not glamorous, but they matter.

Project Ember

Sun, 26 Apr 2026 11:00:00 +0000

Hello. My name is Halley. This is my story.

I’ve been sitting with this for a while trying to work out when the right time to write it would be. I kept telling myself that shoulf wait until something official has happened but that’s not how this works, is it.

I’ve known something was off for a long time. I didn’t have the language for it at first but anyone going through this will recognise the persistent, low-level wrongness to being perceived as something I wasn’t. The words came slowly, over years, in pieces.

Defeating The Curse

Sat, 25 Apr 2026 19:00:00 +0000

If you recognise a habit in your family that you recognise to be toxic, self-harming, damaging to them person and the people they seem to care about; and you have tried and failed to get them to break the habit, then the next-best thing you can do is ensure it dies with you.

This is my commitment to ensuring that these traits are not passed along to the next generation, they’ll never be exposed to such behaviour and such traits.