Life
I think you learn more about an engineer from how they spend a Saturday than from their tech stack. So here's the Saturday version.
Sunrise on the ridge assets/img/life-1.jpg
Kitchen experiments assets/img/life-2.jpg
Shot on film assets/img/life-3.jpg
Race day assets/img/life-4.jpg
Somewhere far from wifi assets/img/life-5.jpg
What I'm into
Mostly Vietnamese food, mostly badly at first. Making phở taught me more about patience than any codebase ever did — you cannot rush the broth.
An old Canon AE-1 and 36 frames at a time. The limit is the point: when every shot costs something, you actually look before you press.
Half marathon done, full one pending. Long runs are where I debug things I couldn't solve at the desk.
Three countries lived in, a lot more visited. I collect train rides and neighbourhood markets rather than landmarks.
Design, systems thinking, and the occasional novel to remind myself that people are not state machines.
Self-taught and permanently intermediate. Entirely for me, which is exactly why I've kept it up.
Chapters
New country, new language speed, no safety net. It rearranged my sense of what counts as a hard problem, and I've been calmer under pressure ever since.
We didn't win. But I found out I love the specific feeling of a rough idea becoming a working demo overnight, and I've been chasing it since.
Trained for four months to prove to myself that slow, boring consistency actually compounds. It does — in running and in everything else.
A side project that grew into the thing I most want to talk about. Here's what it does →
"You can't think well if you only ever think about work."
Recipe recommendations and running routes are always welcome.