Written by Viet Nguyen. Senior Software Engineer residing in Orlando, FL.What I'm Doing Now · What I'm Building
HoopSim Devlog #2: Daily Slate, Multiplayer, data wrangling
October 08, 2026 · 3 min readThis HoopSim update covers Daily Slate fantasy basketball, multiplayer, schedule data, player projections, and the short-form video pipeline for recorded games.
Read MoreCan You Swap Your LLM for Jev?
September 20, 2026 · 4 min readA Jev benchmark in Nurse Remotely's resume studio compares latency and cost with Gemini Flash-Lite, then tests model judgments against keyword matching.
Read MoreHoopSim Devlog
March 02, 2026 · 3 min readHoopSim began as an answer to managing fantasy basketball across time zones. This devlog covers its origin, AI-assisted research, simulation design, and stack.
Read MoreThe Day The World Turned Red
January 12, 2026 · 6 min readA story of health: hospital tests that ended with a rare blood cancer diagnosis, severe cirrhosis, and a full change of diet, habits, and outlook on life.
Read MoreThe Day The World Turned Grey
December 06, 2025 · 5 min readRemembering the December day in 2023 that the author's cousin Trang Van passed away, the drive to the family house, and the grief still felt two years later.
Read MoreUpdate 2023
July 14, 2023 · 1 min readA return to blogging in 2023 with plans to learn in public again, starting with posts on frontend state management tools like Xstate and the Prisma ORM.
Read MoreThe Move
August 31, 2020 · 4 min readRelocating from Orlando to Charlotte during the pandemic: a remote job interview, agonizing decisions, and a stressful eight-hour drive with a stressed out cat.
Read MoreGetting Started with XState
October 09, 2019 · 4 min readA beginner's guide to XState state machines in React: defining states and transitions, assigning context, and invoking services to call the Rick and Morty API.
Read MoreGetting Started With GraphQL
July 30, 2019 · 4 min readA beginner's look at GraphQL: building a simple Apollo Server schema with types and resolvers, writing queries, and comparing the approach to REST APIs.
Read MoreFailing Fast
June 10, 2019 · 2 min readReflections on the programming idea of failing fast and why real life offers no reset button or redo, only hard lessons learned from the choices we make.
Read MoreIntegrating Another Cat into the Family
May 29, 2019 · 7 min readBringing a new kitten named Loki into the house and the long, messy process of getting him to coexist with the resident cat Hades, including one scary vet stay.
Read MoreMusic I'm Listening To (April 2019)
April 29, 2019 · 4 min readAlbums on repeat in April 2019, including Anderson .Paak, Little Simz, PNTHN, Anonymuz, Ta-ku, and Alina Baraz, plus a few loose singles worth checking out.
Read MoreGetting Started with TypeScript and NextJs
April 23, 2019 · 4 min readMy notes on adding TypeScript to a React and Next.js app: variable types, interfaces, tuples, async functions, and the configuration files that make it work.
Read MoreJapan Preparation and Other Information
April 14, 2019 · 8 min readA practical Japan travel guide from an American's perspective, covering what to do after landing, lodging, transit cards, cash, food, and local quirks.
Read MoreGetting Started with NextJS, Styled Components and Rebass
April 10, 2019 · 4 min readA walkthrough of a Next.js starter boilerplate that combines Styled Components for CSS-in-JS and Rebass for UI components, and a look at server-side rendering.
Read MoreMy Cats and My Start as a Pet Owner
April 04, 2019 · 5 min readThe story of how I became a pet owner, from rescuing a stray little black cat named Hades to bringing home a playful white Scottish Fold kitten named Loki.
Read MoreCase Study - Web Scrapers
April 01, 2019 · 5 min readAn experiment comparing web scrapers in Node.js, PHP, and Python using Cheerio, Goutte, and BeautifulSoup to pull Dwyane Wade stats from Basketball Reference.
Read MoreMy Career Thus Far
March 20, 2019 · 6 min readA look back at a career path from an electrical engineering degree into software development jobs at several companies and startups, with resume shotgunning.
Read MoreMy First Post
March 18, 2019 · 1 min readThe very first post ever on this blog, promising writing on whatever is on my mind: tech, basketball and fantasy sports, video games, anime, music, and life.
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