IDEAS, DECISIONS & LESSONS
Notes on AI, architecture and building useful products.
878 articles
11 Jun 2026 · 9 min read
agile
A retro that ends with three vague action items nobody does is worse than no retro. Here's the English for facilitating retrospectives that surface real problems, produce committed actions, and don't turn into complaint sessions — from opening the meeting to closing with accountability.
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english
Shadowing is the single most effective speaking practice technique for non-native English speakers. You listen to a sentence and speak it simultaneously, matching rhythm, stress, and intonation in real time. Here's how to do it correctly with tech-specific scripts designed for Vietnamese developers.
Read more10 Jun 2026 · 8 min read
architecture
Daily English practice for tech professionals. Evening session — review architecture vocabulary, learn to explain complex systems in plain English, and practice speaking with technical stakeholders.
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ai
Google's TurboQuant research reduces KV cache memory overhead by ~100x using a two-step algorithm combining PolarQuant vector rotation and Johnson-Lindenstrauss compression. This could make 2M-token context models economically feasible for many more teams.
Read more10 Jun 2026 · 5 min read
architecture
Daily English practice for tech professionals. Morning session covering architecture vocabulary — microservices, distributed systems, cloud-native design with pronunciation and real-world examples.
Read more10 Jun 2026 · 8 min read
english
Running a meeting in your second language is harder than attending one. You have to open, steer, redirect, and close — all in real time. Here's the language structure for each phase, from a Vietnamese tech lead's perspective.
Read more10 Jun 2026 · 8 min read
architecture
Daily English practice for tech professionals. Noon session — architecture vocabulary deep dive: scalability, latency, microservices, and how to explain system design to non-tech stakeholders.
Read more10 Jun 2026 · 5 min read
ai
Google's Gemini 3.5 Flash hit general availability with 4x faster inference than competing frontier models, a 1M token context window, and $1.50/$9 pricing. It outperforms Gemini 3.1 Pro on coding and agentic benchmarks. Here's the honest assessment of what this means.
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code review
Code review comments in English have three failure modes: too vague to act on, too harsh to receive well, or too polite to land at all. Here's the language for reviews that teach, not just judge — from how to open a review to how to handle pushback.
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