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Dat Do Blogs & Thoughts

Aggregation of my thoughts from various sources

Quitting FAANG

11-Jan-2025as titled
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The Perfect Team @ Amazon

11-Jan-2025Thoughts on my most recent team at Amzn
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15-Jun-2024 Annual International trip to Italy and Switzerland 🇮🇹🇨🇭! It was a challenging year so it feels nice to wind down with the right companies 🥹
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13-Jun-2024
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21-Mar-2024 #westlife first time in NYC
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Day in the life of a SWE at Amazon

14-Aug-2023
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16-Jan-2024 Life in a picture (finally was able to do some new year cleaning 😅)
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16-Oct-2023 Kids with adult money 😂 #nycc
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Monolithic and Domain Driven (and Microservices) designs

7-Apr-2023Just some thoughts on some software architecture
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1-Apr-2023Achievements unlocked: got on Vietnamese national newspaper https://t.co/NvD3Ukm6Ud
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Quick Intro to AWS Amplify

19-Feb-2023Just a quick docs in my own understanding of AWS Amplify
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5-Feb-2023 Trying to start the (lunar) new year right in Japan and Vietnam 😊
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22-Oct-2022 This kind of news always made my day and I got two today 😊.
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Creating an "Over-engineer"-ed personal blog

10-Oct-2022In this post though, I want to run through my history of building (as well as what I want to do next)
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9-Oct-2022At the comic con #onepieceisreal #ONEPIECE #toeianimenycc https://t.co/CLLtlVwilu
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Navigate Company Politics as a SWE

6-Oct-2022My take on dealing with people and conflict in company
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30-Aug-2022 After 7 years, I picked up one of my old retro projects and put some scrap together to build this arcade tabletop. Any game suggestions are greatly appreciated and come play with me if you are in NYC 😅
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28-Aug-2022I got featured on https://t.co/hffIizRpxT stories! Please check it out and also all other great stories around too. Thanks @namtranxn for putting it all together. https://t.co/o4shSoOQxW
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Achievement & Anxiety

21-Aug-2022I think this is my internal struggle and one of my biggest weakness
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18-Aug-2022 I listened to one of his recorded orchestral way back when. His music got me through hours of homework in college. So glad to listen to him in person #joehisaishi #ghibli #radiocitymusichall
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10-Aug-2022 Plotting our demise
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Practical Programming

26-Jul-2022My method for interview training and technical growth
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2-Aug-2022So happy to finally be able to say publicly what I have been working on at #amazon I am super proud to be a part of the launch (but was under no surprise we made this happen given our very cool team). So far, I have learned a whole lot about both custome…https://t.co/xXLpmnhloN
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Weekend Project: Duplicating My Apartment Key Fob

1-Aug-2022A quick intro into understanding how NFC works
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Growing technically as an engineer

20-Jul-2022Identify different growing phase in my technical growth
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My Journey to Tech

20-Jul-2022Wanted to share my experience thus far.
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26-Feb-2022Updated my personal website from CRA to Vite, reduced the build time by half 😮
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23-Jan-2022Created https://t.co/p9IRsVYnRk to store random urls handy :) https://t.co/vgkeAaUopn
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2015 - 2020 Retrospective: Dat's Progression

16-Jan-2021It's the beginning of 2021, I want to look back at the past 5 years of progress I have made to prepare for the next 5 years
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19-Dec-2021I am working on some pet projects and have recently discover https://t.co/hUEOgexKek and https://t.co/SrK6fAKLY1
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15-Dec-2021Note to self to checkout things on here https://t.co/QDLjrpHLo7
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26-Nov-2021TIL there is a column items stacking style called masonry and there are different approaches on implementing it on web https://t.co/3BKzGCjpYp
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25-Nov-2021Happy Holidays/Thanksgiving! I will start tweeting more since things here will now be connected to my blog stream (https://t.co/CzInUtgf3N) To start, here are set of books I refer to (and cry to) day to day https://t.co/re5AEHdToe
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25-Nov-2021Tweeting to website https://t.co/CzInUtxQsn
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Landing a Software Job: A Personal Perspective

25-Nov-2021This blog is written in Notion
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