A reflection of 2025, highlights, wins and goals

☃️ 2025 Year End Reflection

A reflection on building range over rank in a portfolio-style career.

🎒My Portfolio Career Era

An exploration of AI dictation tools and how I plan to improve a new skill.

🎤Training Myself to Dictate at the Speed of Thought 🧠

More than half way through 2025 - another reflecting journal post.

🌱Still Debugging Life: Six Years of Code and Curiosity

Reflections and practical tips from six years of remote work - how to stay productive, comfortable, and sane while working from home.

🏡 Lessons From 6 Years of Remote Work - My Journey and What I’ve Learned

As someone working in the betting industry, whether you're betting on sports, the market, or even yourself…

🎰 Recalibrating my bets - Why I’m pausing LeetCode grind in an AI world

Making canadian recalls more accessible and easier to use.

🇨🇦 How I Built a Canadian Recalls website (While Staying on Vercel’s Free Tier)

🌱 NeetCode × April Progress 🍅

Self reflection of week 1 grind into NeetCode.

🌱 NeetCode × Week 1 🍅

Owning the journey to senior — no permissions needed.

🍅 NeetCode × Pomodoro: A Love Letter to My Inner Dev 💌

Looking back at my progress so far, and what I'm noticing.

♠️ Five Years as an IC - A Blink and a Lifetime in Tech

⛰️2024 Year Reflection

Writing about what I achieved this year and what I am looking forward to next year.

🎄2023 Year End Reflection

Using Home Assistant to improve my quality of life.

🤖 Automating all the things

Current updates with life and other things.

🥳 New Blog!

Writing about what I learned this year and what I am looking forward to next year.

💯 2022 Year End Reflection

Writing a post about my most used commands at work and what commands I learned to improve my workflow.

🤖 My top 10 Git commands I use

It's already been one year! Time really flies.

🌿 One Year Work reflection

Solving a repetitive task when my Telegram bot goes offline.

💻 How to start your Telegram bot on boot

🎊A year end summary of 2020

How to web scrape with Python in 2020. A beginners guide on how to check any site for changes and generate an email notification when it changes. Just in time for Black Friday and Cyber Monday!

🤖 How to web scrape with Python for deals

A monthly progress for October. My current status and reflection on my productivity, goals and achievements.

🍅October Pomodoro Reflection

The misspelling of 'get good' and a slang rendering to get good at a task or skill. It is used to heckle inexperienced players or newbies online in video games. My journey and experience with Git.

🍅 Git Gud

A monthly progress for September. My current status and reflection on my productivity, goals and achievements.

🍅September Pomodoro Reflection

A monthly progress for August. My current status and reflection on my productivity, goals and achievements.

🍅August Pomodoro Reflection

I took a workshop called Visual Studio Code Can Do That? by Burke Holland from Frontend Masters and learned a few tips and tricks to make myself more productive with VSCode!

💻VSCode Productivity Tips

I might as well finish up this chapter of my health journey and provide an ending story. I was curious what they had given me during my last surgery because I woke up feeling like I was on a floating cloud.

💉Remifentanil and Ketamine

A monthly progress for July. My current status and reflection on my productivity, goals and achievements.

🍅July Pomodoro Reflection

My experience running into Bell's palsy twice and the story of how I accidentally overdosed on Valtrex (valacyclovir) like an idiot.

😨My Bell's Palsy Experience

My experience two weeks in my current position as a Software Developer.

⛵My initial 2 weeks at Coveo

The courses, projects and steps I took to generate the skills for a career change.

📊My Year Journey in Becoming a Developer

🎉🙌 I'm employed as a Software Developer at Coveo💙🧡!

🍾A New Chapter in 2020

A monthly progress for May. My current status and reflection on my productivity, goals and achievements.

🍅May Pomodoro Reflection

The story of how I fixed my sleeping problems and the steps I took to optimize for study, leisure, and sleep in my small bedroom. The things that worked for me throughout my journey in programming.

🧠Mind Over Matter

An online multiplayer board game similar to codenames!

🎲 The Creation of Not Codenames

A monthly progress for April. My current status and reflection on my productivity, goals and achievements.

🍅April Pomodoro Reflection

A monthly progress for March. My current status and reflection on my productivity, goals and achievements.

🍅March Pomodoro Reflection

A Mind for Numbers, a book about learning how to learn and improving your ability to retain new concepts in any subject.

📝Learning How to Learn

A monthly progress for February. My current status and reflection on my productivity, goals and achievements.

🍅February Pomodoro Reflection

A monthly progress for January. My current status and reflection on my productivity, goals and achievements.

🍅January Pomodoro Reflection

A monthly progress for December. My current status and reflection on my productivity, goals and achievements.

🍅December Pomodoro Reflection 2019

🍅Year End Summary 2019

My personal experience with chlorhexidine gluconate inspired me to write a bite-sized explanation on how they work.

🦷Chlorhexidine gluconate

My personal experience with Celebrex inspired me to write a bite-sized explanation on how they work.

💊Celebrex

A monthly progress for November. My current status and reflection on my productivity, goals and achievements.

🍅November Pomodoro Reflection

My personal experience with opioids inspired me to write a bite-sized explanation on how they work. None of this was recreational.

🌺Opioids

My personal experience with this anesthetic inspired me to write a bite-sized explanation on how propofol works.

🌌Propofol - Milk of Amnesia

My personal experience with this antibiotic inspired me to write a bite-sized explanation on how cephalexin works.

💊Cephalexin

My personal experience with this antibiotic inspired me to write a bite-sized explanation on how Septra works.

💊Sulfamethoxazole and trimethoprim (Septra)

My personal experience with this antibiotic inspired me to write a bite-sized explanation on how clindamycin works.

💊Clindamycin

My personal experience with this antibiotic inspired me to write a bite-sized explanation on how amoxicillin and clavulante works.

💊Amoxicillin and clavulanate (Augmentin)

How does the antibiotic ciprofloaxcin work and why does this drug make me so drowsy?!

💊Ciprofloxacin - Fluoroquinolones

How does Flagyl work? My personal experience with this antibiotic.

💊Metronidazole (Flagyl) and consuming foods with alcohol

Mastering concentration: Pomodoro Reflection

🍅 May Pomodoro Reflection

Here we go!

Time for change

Excel: VBA Tips and Tricks

I automated a work process after learning how to program and translated it in VB6

🤖How I automated a process at work using Excel VBA

👨‍🔬My Biochemistry Story

⌚Watches

🍅Productivity: Pomodoro Technique

Managing energy - not time

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☃️ 2025 Year End Reflection

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🎤Training Myself to Dictate at the Speed of Thought 🧠

🌱Still Debugging Life: Six Years of Code and Curiosity

🏡 Lessons From 6 Years of Remote Work - My Journey and What I’ve Learned

🎰 Recalibrating my bets - Why I’m pausing LeetCode grind in an AI world

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Welcome to my blog, my name is Kien

Currently Working On

Currently Reading

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📌 Pinned Posts

☃️ 2025 Year End Reflection

🎒My Portfolio Career Era

🇨🇦 How I Built a Canadian Recalls website (While Staying on Vercel’s Free Tier)

🍽️ Dining Adventures

aKin Restaurant

✍️ Latest Blog Posts

☃️ 2025 Year End Reflection

🎒My Portfolio Career Era

🎤Training Myself to Dictate at the Speed of Thought 🧠

🌱Still Debugging Life: Six Years of Code and Curiosity

🏡 Lessons From 6 Years of Remote Work - My Journey and What I’ve Learned

🎰 Recalibrating my bets - Why I’m pausing LeetCode grind in an AI world

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