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Learning Portal

Hands-on learning notes, commands, and step-by-step guides — built for myself and overflow-shared with whoever finds it useful.

What's actually here

This is the private working space behind aguidetocloud.com. Public posts and tools live on the public site. This portal is the workshop floor — the half-finished ideas, the operational playbooks, the reference annex Copilot CLI uses to remember things between sessions.

Where to start

Study   Reference   Zen System

Sections

  • Study

    All the actual learning content. Copilot CLI, MCP, M365 Copilot, VS Code, Git, AI vendors, local AI. The progress tracker lives here too.

    Open Study

  • Study Guides

    Long-form study guides built for specific certifications and topics. Includes PDF exports.

    Open Study Guides

  • Zen System

    The design system that runs the whole brand. Tokens, components, guardrails, migration playbooks. Light by default. One accent: indigo.

    Open Zen System

  • Lab

    Tools that ship to the public site, the Guided platform docs, mind maps, ops playbooks, and the idea backlog. The workshop floor.

    Open Lab

  • Reference

    Copilot CLI's working memory. Deployment playbook, parallel-git rules, voice & tone, incident log. Future-Copilot reads these as plain markdown via the filesystem.

    Open Reference

How this site fits with the rest

Surface What it is Audience
aguidetocloud.com The public face. Tools, blog posts, videos, links. Anyone (no auth)
aguidetocloud.com/guided/ Practice exams, study guides, courses. Paid + free tiers. Learners (some paywalled)
learn.aguidetocloud.com (this site) Private notes, study material, reference annex. Just me + future Copilot
YouTube — main + Bites Videos. Tutorials and shorts. Anyone

What changed recently

  • 3 May 2026 — Zen migration of the portal. Replaced the retro-neon theme with the Zen Design System. New top-level "Reference" tab for Copilot's memory annex. Presenter mode retired. See Reference → Incident Log for the full decisions log.

Notes for future-me

  • This site is gated behind a password. The auth gate uses a local hash. Don't paste sensitive customer data here even though it's "private" — gating is obscurity, not security.
  • When Copilot CLI needs to remember something deep (a playbook, an incident, a token reference) — it goes in docs/reference/. Custom-instructions stays for rules that fire every session.
  • Build with python -m mkdocs build --strict before pushing. Cloudflare Pages auto-deploys on push.