IDEAS, DECISIONS & LESSONS
Notes on AI, architecture and building useful products.
919 articles
13 Jun 2026 · 4 min read
english-lesson
Daily English practice for tech professionals. Noon session — social idioms, casual expressions, and texting English for real-life conversations.
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english-lesson
Daily English practice for tech professionals. Evening session — casual conversation, social English, and how to express feelings and atmosphere naturally.
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ai
Google just open-sourced the first credible text diffusion model from a major lab — DiffusionGemma-26B generates 1,000+ tokens/sec by abandoning autoregressive token generation entirely. Here's how Uniform State Diffusion actually works, when this architecture matters, and what it means for building with open-weights models.
Read more12 Jun 2026 · 8 min read
drills
There are five specific sound patterns that consistently trip up Vietnamese developers in English tech conversations. Not because the sounds are impossible — but because they don't exist in Vietnamese phonology and require deliberate muscle-memory practice. Here are the drills.
Read more12 Jun 2026 · 8 min read
communication
Data doesn't persuade. Stories do. Technical storytelling is the skill of framing complex system decisions, incident postmortems, and architecture proposals as narratives that non-technical stakeholders follow and engineers remember. Here's the structure and the language.
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communication
In Vietnamese work culture, public disagreement with a more senior person feels high-risk. In international tech teams, failing to push back when you see a problem is what actually damages your credibility. Here's the English for productive technical disagreement — the language that moves discussions forward without destroying working relationships.
Read more12 Jun 2026 · 5 min read
career
Daily English practice for tech professionals. Evening session — review career vocabulary and interview practice sentences.
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career
Learn the word 'initiative' — how to use it in career conversations, emails, and job interviews. Real examples for Vietnamese professionals.
Read more12 Jun 2026 · 5 min read
agents
MAF 1.0 merges AutoGen and Semantic Kernel into one production SDK — but the real story is CodeAct, which cuts token consumption 63.9% by having the model write Python programs instead of making individual tool calls. Here's what changes for .NET teams building agentic systems.
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