Ashin James

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Layer 1 of the OSI model: Physical.

This is the layer people forget exists because it's not code, it's actual hardware. Cables, radio signals, voltage, light pulses through fiber. This layer's only job is turning data into something that can physically travel: electricity, light, or radio waves.

No addressing here, no logic, no decisions. Just raw bits moving from one point to another.

Every "no signal" or "cable unplugged" error traces back here first, before you even think about IPs or ports. 🔌

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Layer 2: Data Link.

This is where MAC addresses live, and where switches operate. Its job is getting data reliably from one device to the next device on the same local network, using hardware addresses instead of IP addresses.

Ethernet and Wi-Fi frames are built here. This layer also does basic error detection, catching corrupted data before it gets passed up.

Think of Layer 2 as the "same room" layer: it only knows how to talk to devices it's directly connected to, nothing further. 🔗

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🧵 The president they shot (Part 2/12)

By 1935, Barça had a new president — Josep Sunyol, a 37-year-old journalist and left-wing politician who ran his own newspaper, La Rambla. Under him, the club leaned harder into what it represented, not just what it won on the pitch.

Then July 1936 hit. Civil war broke out across Spain almost overnight.

A few weeks later, Sunyol left Barcelona to visit Republican troops near Madrid — nothing unusual for him, he was a sitting member of parliament as much as a club president.

On August 6th, his car took a wrong turn in the Sierra de Guadarrama, straight into territory that had just fallen to Franco's forces. Soldiers stopped them, invited them in for a drink like it was nothing — then turned their guns on them once they were inside.

He was shot that day. No trial. Buried without a marker.

Barcelona didn't find out for a week. When they did, it broke something in the club — a permanent reminder of what it had become tied to, in a country about to tear itself apart for three more years.

His grave stayed unmarked for 60 years, until fans finally had him reburied properly in 1996.

The club still calls him "the martyr president."

Next up: the phrase that came out of the darkness — and what it actually means. 🧵👇

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🧵 The phrase that wasn't a slogan (Part 3/12)

You've probably seen it on a badge, a scarf, a tattoo somewhere: "Més que un club." More than a club.

Everyone assumes it's a marketing line. It isn't. It came from a man who almost didn't want the job.

January 17, 1968. Narcís de Carreras, a lawyer, gets elected club president. In his very first speech, still riding the nerves of just winning the vote, he says the club is more than just a place where people watch a match on Sundays — that above everything, it's a shared spirit, a set of colors people believe in beyond sport.

He wasn't trying to coin a slogan. He was just describing what the club had already become — especially under a dictatorship that banned the Catalan language and crushed regional identity. Inside the stadium, on matchday, was one of the only places people could still be unapologetically Catalan.

The phrase stuck. Decades later, it's stitched into the club's actual bylaws.

Not every football club can claim its motto came from grief, repression, and a first-time president just speaking honestly. Most of them came from an ad agency.

Next up: the stadium that had to be built because one player got too famous. 🧵👇

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Evening run. Discipline beats motivation. 🏃

[Ashin James @ashinjames_]

Layer 1 of the OSI model: Physical.

This is the layer people forget exists because it's not code, it's actual hardware. Cables, radio signals, voltage, light pulses through fiber. This layer's only job is turning data into something that can physically travel: electricity, light, or radio waves.

No addressing here, no logic, no decisions. Just raw bits moving from one point to another.

Every "no signal" or "cable unplugged" error traces back here first, before you even think about IPs or ports. 🔌

[Ashin James @ashinjames_]

@AnandaniNisha Only 1 and you?

[Ashin James @ashinjames_]

🧵 The president they shot (Part 2/12)

By 1935, Barça had a new president — Josep Sunyol, a 37-year-old journalist and left-wing politician who ran his own newspaper, La Rambla. Under him, the club leaned harder into what it represented, not just what it won on the pitch.

Then July 1936 hit. Civil war broke out across Spain almost overnight.

A few weeks later, Sunyol left Barcelona to visit Republican troops near Madrid — nothing unusual for him, he was a sitting member of parliament as much as a club president.

On August 6th, his car took a wrong turn in the Sierra de Guadarrama, straight into territory that had just fallen to Franco's forces. Soldiers stopped them, invited them in for a drink like it was nothing — then turned their guns on them once they were inside.

He was shot that day. No trial. Buried without a marker.

Barcelona didn't find out for a week. When they did, it broke something in the club — a permanent reminder of what it had become tied to, in a country about to tear itself apart for three more years.

His grave stayed unmarked for 60 years, until fans finally had him reburied properly in 1996.

The club still calls him "the martyr president."

Next up: the phrase that came out of the darkness — and what it actually means. 🧵👇

[Ashin James @ashinjames_]

Spent time yesterday going deeper into the OSI model, here's what actually stuck beyond the usual "7 layers" diagram everyone memorizes for interviews.

It's not just theory. It's the mental map that makes troubleshooting actually make sense.

When something breaks, most people jump straight to guessing. People who know this model instinctively ask: which layer is this? Physical? Data link? Network? Transport? Or higher up, in session, presentation, or application?

That one question cuts debugging time down massively, because you stop checking things that were never going to be the problem.

A few things that clicked:

Layer 3 and 4 are where most real-world networking issues actually live
"Application" layer isn't your app, it's the protocol your app speaks (HTTP, DNS, SMTP)
A firewall and an IDS operate at different layers, which is why they're not solving the same problem

Starting to think this model is less "thing you memorize once" and more the periodic table of networking, quietly organizing everything else you know.

What layer do you find yourself thinking about most?

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🧵 How FC Barcelona actually began (Part 1/12)

No stadium. No trophies. Not even really a "team" yet — just a newspaper ad.

1899. A young Swiss businessman named Joan Gamper moves to Barcelona for work. He loves this weird new sport called football, so he does what any obsessed 21-year-old would do: places an ad in a local sports magazine asking if anyone wants to start a club.

A handful of people show up. That's it. That's the entire origin story of one of the biggest clubs on the planet — a guy who missed playing football back home and put out a classified ad.

They land on blue and garnet for the colors. Some say it's inspired by Gamper's hometown club in Switzerland, others argue it's something else entirely — nobody fully agrees, even now, over a century later.

The name? FC Barcelona. Not glamorous. Just descriptive. A club, for the city.

What nobody in that room could've known: this club would end up tied to an entire region's identity, survive a civil war, lose a president to an assassination, and eventually produce the greatest footballer who ever lived.

Next up: the war years, and the president they shot. 🧵👇

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@enteio It's amazing. I love it.

Love to see folder organization instead of tags like google drive.

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@AnandaniNisha It's just cloudy all day 🥲

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@AnandaniNisha Yes, very true. I have very few pictures with my best friend, and during his marriage, I was unable to find a good pic for posting stories.

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@AnandaniNisha That's what I have been doing. I lost count of the numbers that have been added to the blocked list. 🤭

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Barcelona's financial collapse in 2021 forced the club into one of the most difficult periods in its history. Burdened with around €1.2 billion in debt, the club watched La Liga reduce its wage limit from €347 million to just €97 million, making it impossible to register new signings. With few alternatives, Barcelona turned to its academy, relying on teenagers simply because they were the only players the club could afford to field.

What started as a necessity became a remarkable success story. Lamine Yamal made his first-team debut at just 15 years and 9 months, while Pau Cubarsí followed at 16. Young talents such as Gavi, Pedri, Alejandro Balde, and Marc Casadó also received opportunities far earlier than they likely would have under normal circumstances.

Instead of exposing weakness, Barcelona uncovered a golden generation. Yamal, who joined La Masia at the age of seven from CF La Torreta without a transfer fee, developed into one of the world's brightest prospects. Despite reportedly receiving a €250 million offer for him, the club chose to keep him. Before turning 18, he had already made more than 100 senior appearances—far exceeding the number Lionel Messi had at the same age.

The achievement becomes even more impressive when viewed in the context of finances. While Real Madrid operates under a squad cost limit of approximately €761 million, Barcelona's stands at about €432 million. Even so, Barcelona captured the league title, with much of its starting lineup consisting of players developed through its own academy rather than expensive transfers.

The contrast is striking. Messi's final Barcelona contract was reportedly worth more than €500 million, while the player leading the club's new era came through the academy at virtually no transfer cost.

The young players seen in the academy today represent the next generation of that same philosophy. What began as a response to a financial crisis has evolved into Barcelona's long-term blueprint for sustained success.

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The talent in Barcelona’s youth system is ridiculous.🔥

These kids are 11/12 years old.🤯🔵🔴

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@moodsofshatsy Hi, let's connect.

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@AnandaniNisha 101 DM? 😳

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@nush_1320 Who is eligible for this position?

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Grateful to be recognized as the Best Bowler in the Veeam Premier League (VPL)! 🏆