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Remastered some old Vietnam photos for fun – part 2

Part 1 here VNExpress our local e-newspaper decided to go down the memory lane once again. So here we are: Now, in Part 1, I processed everything locally [ ]

(2026) Self-hosted LLM Tier list

A tier list of the best open-weight coding LLMs you can self-host right now (if you can front the hardware cost that is). I have personally tested 3 out of [ ]

Introducing SHRIMP – a Web-based raster image editor inspired by GIMP/Gravit/Photopea

Hey folks, I d like to introduce to my latest work SHRIMP (Simple Hi-Res Image Manipulation Program). The name is inspired by the GIMP (the GNU Image Manipulation Program)TL;DR you can [ ]

Sometimes even AI runs into existential crisis

This is kind of scary ain t it

Architectural sketch to 3D render, Gemini 3 Pro vs GPT Image 1.5

I remember back in 2008 when my friend Bao, who was studying architecture design in NYC, asked me to turn one of his sketches into a 3D render. I spent [ ]

Incompetency at Logitech

Seriously, leaving aside the fact that keeping certificates alive is trivially easy, especially for those certs that are crucial to your business operation, the fact that a piece of offline [ ]

Anybody who uses AI should watch this

This is currently the video I recommend to anyone who uses AI (not just vibecoders, any AI users in general, even if you only occasionally use ChatGPT to ask about [ ]

We’re finally back!

Finally managed to bring my website and my sister s websites back up after almost a month of downtime. In my last post I was complaining about Netdata eating all the [ ]

Not again, Netdata

Woke up to over 70 netdata warnings in my inbox and Telegram saying that my VPS is being overloaded. So I SSH in as soon as I can to see [ ]

Ứng dụng Gamification trong thiết kế UX cho ngành giáo dục

“Gamification” trong giáo dục thường có nghĩa là áp dụng các nguyên lý thiết kế game—ví dụ như điểm số, huy hiệu, bảng xếp hạng—để làm cho việc học trở [ ]