Software & IoT Development

Your Blog Should Be an AI-Powered Second Brain, Not a Newsletter

August 31, 2026

Why newsletters on Substack and Medium are dead ends in the LLM era. How a sovereign Git repository, pure HTML, and multi-agent AI sparring turn your writing into an active, compounding Second Brain.

Why the Best AI Tech Stack Is from 1995 (HTML, CSS, JS, SQL)

August 25, 2026

Why 30-year-old primitives—HTML, CSS, JS, and SQL—run circles around modern frameworks when building with AI agents, from Windows 3.11 FoxPro to Alpine and SQLite.

AI Coding & The Master Stylesheet: Building Your Living Design Language

July 27, 2026

Why AI models suffer from UI drift, how living stylesheet pages anchor LLMs, and how hand-tweaking CSS tokens maintains consistent design quality.

ESP32 + CM4/CM5: Our Hardware Architecture for Self-Hosted AIoT

July 14, 2026

The two-tier hardware stack behind our AIoT deployments, combining low-power ESP32 edge nodes with a CM4/CM5 local core to keep telemetry on-site.

Rust on ESP32 and Single-Board Computers: Our Embedded Stack

July 10, 2026

Why Rust replaced C and Python scripts in our embedded systems, providing memory safety on ESP32, single static binaries on SBCs, and reliable agentic generation.

The Lean Stack: Why We Went Back to HTML, CSS, and Fundamentals

July 4, 2026

How Alpine.js, htmx, Bulma, Bun, and Hono replaced complex frontend pipelines in our work, and why self-hosting forms the core of a resilient local AI stack.

AI Minions and the New Operating System for Work

March 18, 2026

How multi-agent AI execution loops and autonomous subagents are reshaping startup workflows and organizational throughput.

The Rise of the One-Person Dev Team

March 1, 2026

How individual engineers orchestrate agentic workflows, multi-screen setups, and large context models to deliver full software architectures independently.

Our servers were attacked on Vietnamese New Year 2026 by a Vietnamese Botnet - 18th Feb 2026.

February 19, 2026

How a Redis caching incident triggered a holiday outage during Vietnamese New Year 2026, and how automated diagnostics restored server uptime.

Digital Forensic with AI 101 - Corporate Espionage by NS and DNS manipulation

December 23, 2025

A technical review of digital forensic methods for investigating DNS hijacking, unauthorized nameserver modifications, and infrastructure compromise.

The AI Tipping Point: What Founders and CXOs Should Do Next

March 30, 2025

Strategic steps for founders and executive teams navigating AI automation, organizational readiness, and technical workflow shifts.

AI is my Co-founder, VC Mentor, Ghostwriter, and Coffee Buddy

November 15, 2023

How specialized AI tools and agent workflows enhance engineering execution, research synthesis, and day-to-day productivity.

[IOTD][#12] Technology shaping perspectives

October 25, 2018

How long can you keep up with new technology? Early electronics tinkering, shifting childhood baselines, and dedicated iPad mini FaceTime setup.

Staying productive and effective while on Slack

June 15, 2016

Actionable tips for reclaiming time on Slack: meaningful channel names, keyboard shortcuts, muting non-essentials, push settings, and keyword triggers.