🪴 Trying to learn how to rest
I dropped to part-time work and finally had the unstructured time I always said I wanted. Then I sat down with it and realized I have no idea how to rest when there isn't a next thing pressing in.
7 min read☕☕☕•life
Kien Dang
👋 Hello
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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
Building data engineering solutions in healthcare as Principal Data Solutions at CGMH. Bringing platform-engineering practices (Azure DevOps, CI/CD, code review) into hospital data workflows, and learning a new domain from a team of data engineering pros.
📌 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
🌿 What I'm taking with me
Two weeks after being laid off from Penn, here is the longer arc: the team that pushed me, the goalposts that moved, the side projects that opened a door, and the new domain I am building in now.
7 min read☕☕☕•life
💸 What I'm learning on weekends that school never taught me
Reading about Canadian corporate tax structures on weekends turned out to be a crash course in the wealth playbook nobody hands to employees."
5 min read☕☕•life
🌐 The philosophical views of code
From being that junior, to maturing into a professional who sees code in a different light.
6 min read☕☕•codeAI
👨💻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
⛴️ 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