👨💻Building a Real-Time Budget Tracker on My Homelab
Building a personal real-time budget tracker on my homelab using Next.js, PocketBase, n8n, and Ollama.
8 min read☕☕☕•productivity
Kien Dang
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Here is where I write my technical thoughts, document my learning journey and introspection with my career growth. Also, I give honest reviews of my dining experiences.
Currently Working On
Growing theScore application in a new growth team and developing data engineering solutions in healthcare at CGMH. Expanding my T-shaped skillset across web development and data engineering.
📌 Pinned Posts
🎒My Portfolio Career Era
• 4 min read
A reflection on building range over rank in a portfolio-style career.
🇨🇦 How I Built a Canadian Recalls website (While Staying on Vercel’s Free Tier)
• 5 min read
Making canadian recalls more accessible and easier to use.
🍅 1031 Pomodoro's Later and a Career Change Success
• 8 min read
The courses, projects and steps I took to generate the skills for a career change.
✍️ Latest Blog Posts
Kien's cybernook in the digital cosmos where his thoughts finds its celestial abode
⛴️ Building My Private Home Cloud: A Frontend Dev's Journey with Zero Trust & Docker
Upgrading my home lab from Windows 10 to Proxmox was the best decision I made this year! Learning a ton about Docker, home networking and more. My experience with this upgrade has made my life stress free with my original home lab.
5 min read☕☕•productivity
🚀Updating my blog to use TinaCMS!
Updating my blog to use TinaCMS! Writing about my experience and why I chose to move to TinaCM
2 min read☕•productivity
📝Learning How to Learn, again, with AI
Learning how to learn, juiced with AI. My progress and introspection with using AI to learn Systems Design and Designing Data-Intensive Applications.
4 min read☕☕•lifeAI
📦 Weekdays are better than weekends
Hot take. My blog. My thoughts. On the internet it goes.
2 min read☕•life
☃️ 2025 Year End Reflection
A reflection of 2025, highlights, wins and goals
7 min read☕☕☕•life🎉 year-end