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            <title><![CDATA[RECAP - Tháng 1: Sự khởi đầu 2026]]></title>
            <link>https://dinhtin.writizzy.blog/p/recap-thang-1-su-khoi-au-2026</link>
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            <pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Cũng đã lâu lắm rồi tôi mới ngồi lại viết một vài dòng (cũng đã hơn một tháng kể từ bài viết gần nhất). Có lẻ thời gian qua khá là bận rộn với tôi, cho nên việc viết sau một ngày hay kể cả một tuần đều khó có thể thực hiện được. Thời gian đầu năm lúc nào cũng vậy, tôi luôn vạch ra những mục tiêu, những “Todolist” xoay quanh bản thân mình bao gồm việc học hành, công việc, sức khoẻ các thứ để mong muốn có một sự chuyển mình và cái nhìn lại vào năm kế đến. Năm nay cũng vậy, tôi vẫn vạch ra trong đầu mình những kế hoạch nhìn chung là vẫn khả thi để thực hiện, nhưng mọi thứ đều cần sự kiên trì, điều mà tôi khó thể nào duy trì được. ]]></description>
            <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Cũng đã lâu lắm rồi tôi mới ngồi lại viết một vài dòng (cũng đã hơn một tháng kể từ bài viết gần nhất). Có lẻ thời gian qua khá là bận rộn với tôi, cho nên việc viết sau một ngày hay kể cả một tuần đều khó có thể thực hiện được. Thời gian đầu năm lúc nào cũng vậy, tôi luôn vạch ra những mục tiêu, những “Todolist” xoay quanh bản thân mình bao gồm việc học hành, công việc, sức khoẻ các thứ để mong muốn có một sự chuyển mình và cái nhìn lại vào năm kế đến. Năm nay cũng vậy, tôi vẫn vạch ra trong đầu mình những kế hoạch nhìn chung là vẫn khả thi để thực hiện, nhưng mọi thứ đều cần sự kiên trì, điều mà tôi khó thể nào duy trì được. </p>
<p>Năm vừa rồi đã qua đi, tôi chưa thật sự có một buổi nào đó nhìn lại khoảng thời gian đó. Nhưng tôi nhớ có một vài kế hoạch cho riêng mình năm đó. Một trong những kế hoạch tôi nhớ nhất và tôi cũng đã thực hiện trong năm vừa qua đó là việc tôi sẽ build và publish 3 apps. Có vẻ dường như mọi thứ không dễ dàng đến vậy. Tôi làm được 2 apps và đã fail cả 2. Có đáng buồn không, một chút buồn. Buồn chứ, vừa không có người dùng, vừa mất tiền. Nhưng cũng có một vài bài học được rút ra. Tôi đang build phụ thuộc vào may mắn quá nhiều. Mọi thứ làm chỉ dựa vào việc có random người dùng và trông chờ vào việc bùng nổ doanh số (điều tôi hay đọc ở trên X). Cực kì khó. Nhưng nhìn lại thì tôi vẫn đạt một vài thứ, có một lượng Network nhỏ trên X (chỉ nhỏ xíu thôi). Chỉ thế thôi, ngoài ra về tech hay mindset đưa đến người dùng tôi vẫn chưa có được. </p>
<p>Tháng vừa rồi có lẻ là một tháng có khá là nhiều thứ mới đối với tôi. Nhận một công việc Part-time mới, được assign vào các dự án mới ở KD, bắt đầu một năm học mới. Tính đến nay tôi làm việc ở KD được 2 tháng rồi. Mọi thứ vẫn ổn, mọi người vẫn vui vẻ. Nhất là tháng vừa qua có tiếc mục la cà vào buổi trưa. Trước đây tôi ít giao lưu với mọi người lắm. Hầu như chỉ lên ngồi làm, tới giờ trưa mọi người đi ăn, tôi không đi ăn chung, chỉ ngủ một giấc 15 phút rồi dậy đi ăn sau. Nhưng gần đây tôi hoà nhập hơn cùng với mọi người, đi ăn, cafe la cà buổi trưa. Khá là vui. Văn phòng tính đến nay thì cũng đã được cải tiến hơn rất nhiều so với trước. Đầy đủ tiện nghi. Tụi tôi cũng mới thành lập được đội bóng. Tin đáng mừng là một tuần sẽ không chỉ còn ngồi và về ngủ nữa. Mà sẽ có tiết mục đá bóng hàng tuần. </p>
<p>Về công việc Part-time của tôi thì cũng chẳng có gì để nói hết. Chỉ là công việc ngoài giờ, làm thêm, cũng ít giao lưu với mọi người ở đó. Gần đây thì có meeting với team IT, nhưng cũng chỉ là cuộc trao đổi về công việc và giao lưu một tí tẹo. </p>
<p>Tôi cũng mới kết thúc kì cuối học trên trường, kì còn lại này chỉ việc làm đồ án. Đồ án thì chỉ tự làm rồi báo cáo tiến độ, kết quả cho người thầy hướng dẫn. Tôi có nhờ anh Lân - Lead team tôi ở KD tham gia hướng dẫn cùng. Thật ra tôi cũng chưa làm gì cả nên cũng chưa biết nói gì hơn. Tính đến nay là đã qua tuần 2 rồi thì phải. Thầy tôi dặn là phải sắp xếp thời gian làm chứ không là bị cháy đồ án. Tôi không biết sao, chưa có kế hoạch, chưa bắt tay vào làm gì cả. Hi vọng sẽ không bị cháy.</p>
<p>Một tin cũng khá vui là người yêu tui bệnh tình cũng khá hơn trước rồi. Hiện tại đang đi relax ở một nơi xa. Hi vọng năm đến sẽ có nhiều điều nhẹ nhàng hơn đến với ẻm. </p>
<p>Thật ra tháng này là định publish thêm một app nữa. IndieCover - một micro saas làm các trang bìa mạng xã hội. Mọi thứ gần như sẵn sàng cho việc ship và giới thiệu đến người dùng rồi thì tôi lại không muốn nữa. Có vẻ cảm giác này đến cũng hơi nhiều lần với tôi. Rất hứng khởi trong thời điểm làm nhưng đến thời điểm ship thì trong đầu chỉ nghĩ là ai mà sài app này được chứ. Cho nên việc build and ship cũng khá nản, không màu hường như tôi tưởng. Nhưng dù sao thì cũng phải build build build, để kiếm cơ hội không phải đi làm nữa. Win 1 app là nghỉ làm ngay. Ngày làm 4 tiếng hoi. Ai mà chẳng có ước mơ.</p>
<p>Mọi việc cũng khá vui vẻ, vào form các thứ rồi thì hôm bữa nghe tin dữ. Chị làm cùng công ty báo nghỉ việc. Thật ra là trước đó có một chị nghỉ rồi mà chị đó cũng không giao lưu gì với anh em văn phòng nhiều nên việc chỉ nghỉ cũng không thấy tiếc nuối gì hết. Còn đằng này chị này đi, văn phòng chưa gì đã ảm đạm rồi. Mặc dù làm việc chung mới 2 tháng thôi. Nhưng mà vẫn có gì đó một chút buồn. Đúng là cuộc vui nào cũng sẽ đến lúc tàn. </p>
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            <title><![CDATA[Everything just repeats itself]]></title>
            <link>https://dinhtin.writizzy.blog/p/everything-just-repeats-itself</link>
            <guid>https://dinhtin.writizzy.blog/p/everything-just-repeats-itself</guid>
            <pubDate>Sun, 07 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[If I count today, it's probably been 3 days since I've written on Writizzy. I don't know, partly because I don't have much to say, partly because I overslept. I've also stopped updating my blog status on social media platforms. I think it's unnecessary, because I write for myself first.]]></description>
            <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If I count today, it&#39;s probably been 3 days since I&#39;ve written on Writizzy. I don&#39;t know, partly because I don&#39;t have much to say, partly because I overslept. I&#39;ve also stopped updating my blog status on social media platforms. I think it&#39;s unnecessary, because I write for myself first.</p>
<p>Before, if I missed a day of writing, I would try to think about what happened that day, then I would write again, which was quite time-consuming and not as natural as before. So I stopped doing that by starting a new journey, where I will not start the blog title with Day ... anymore. It&#39;s just that on the days when I feel the need to write again, I will write here, a little corner for myself.</p>
<p>Lately, my indie projects have been stagnant, none of them have come out, I&#39;ve left the domain I bought there, and I&#39;ve been living a bit carelessly. I think I know what I want to do now. I will make a place to learn French for those who need it. I need it now, so I want to make it for myself and someone who needs it.</p>
<p>Tomorrow starts a new week, this week there are 2 exams. It was supposed to be 3 but there was a subject that the teacher had already given an exam for. I don&#39;t know what to expect in the new week. Got the English exam results. Not expecting much</p>
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            <title><![CDATA[Day 28: Also nothing]]></title>
            <link>https://dinhtin.writizzy.blog/p/day-28-also-nothing</link>
            <guid>https://dinhtin.writizzy.blog/p/day-28-also-nothing</guid>
            <pubDate>Wed, 03 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[The feeling of missing something is really uncomfortable. But I know I am nothing compared to my lover right now. She is trying to fight her illness. I know I should not fall down now, I should not neglect everything, be a solid support for her.]]></description>
            <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The feeling of missing something is really uncomfortable. But I know I am nothing compared to my lover right now. She is trying to fight her illness. I know I should not fall down now, I should not neglect everything, be a solid support for her.</p>
<p>Today there was a catchup with the team and the lead. Actually, the first one was last Monday. But I did not participate. Today was just a meeting and guidance for everyone to implement project management with Plane. A fairly new tool for me, before I only used Trello, Jira and Linear. But in general, it is the same, not too different. We use the Agile model and a sprint lasts 1 week.</p>
<p>And there was also the first argument in the team, me and a person in the team. Actually, I think this is not too bad, it makes everyone think and criticize each other. This is good for the team as well as me. Can&#39;t be passive and do whatever anyone assigns.</p>
<p>This afternoon I took a break to go back to school to take the exam. The exam went quite smoothly. Not too many difficulties, nor did I worry too much before the exam. Unlike my friends, they were quite worried and prepared more carefully than me. But fortunately, my score was quite okay.</p>
<p>The weather today is quite strange, it rained all day without any sign of stopping. But I still decided to go back home to the countryside and register for remote work tomorrow. Actually, I like remote work more than onsite work. I&#39;m quite lazy to travel a long distance, but the workplace is not too different from remote work. I also feel a bit guilty because this week I took the full 3 days off that the company allowed for interns. It&#39;s okay, just complete the tasks for the company :) My purpose of returning to my hometown is to see if I can take my girlfriend out for a walk tomorrow, to relax her and let her adjust to the new environment. But it seems quite difficult, she doesn&#39;t want to go out, she feels stuffy and her heart beats fast when she goes out. And it&#39;s raining outside now, with no signs of stopping.</p>
<p>Bye, see tomorrow</p>
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            <title><![CDATA[Day 27: A day of deprivation]]></title>
            <link>https://dinhtin.writizzy.blog/p/day-27-a-day-of-deprivation</link>
            <guid>https://dinhtin.writizzy.blog/p/day-27-a-day-of-deprivation</guid>
            <pubDate>Tue, 02 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[There really isn't much to tell today. It's pretty bland. I woke up in the morning and still made a cup of coffee to go to work as usual. Nothing new. Just a feeling of lack. Missing the person I love. My lover's illness is better than before. It's acceptable that my lover has depression. She has never had it or had any signs before. Before, she was a very cheerful, positive person, she made my day very lively. Now she is at home and being taken care of by her family. I really miss her. I just hope everything will be back to normal, okay. So she can continue with her work.]]></description>
            <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>There really isn&#39;t much to tell today. It&#39;s pretty bland. I woke up in the morning and still made a cup of coffee to go to work as usual. Nothing new. Just a feeling of lack. Missing the person I love. My lover&#39;s illness is better than before. It&#39;s acceptable that my lover has depression. She has never had it or had any signs before. Before, she was a very cheerful, positive person, she made my day very lively. Now she is at home and being taken care of by her family. I really miss her. I just hope everything will be back to normal, okay. So she can continue with her work.</p>
<p>Tomorrow is the first exam day, just a product presentation, nothing much. I&#39;m too tired and lazy, maybe I&#39;ll sleep and prepare the slides for the presentation tomorrow.</p>
<p>Bye</p>
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            <title><![CDATA[Day 26: Bad day]]></title>
            <link>https://dinhtin.writizzy.blog/p/day-26-bad-day</link>
            <guid>https://dinhtin.writizzy.blog/p/day-26-bad-day</guid>
            <pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[I don't know what to say. Today was a really bad day. Not for me, but for my girlfriend. I was getting ready to go to work when her condition worsened, I had to take her to the hospital.]]></description>
            <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I don&#39;t know what to say. Today was a really bad day. Not for me, but for my girlfriend. I was getting ready to go to work when her condition worsened, I had to take her to the hospital.</p>
<p>That afternoon I took her home to be taken care of by her family. I waited until everything was better before going to Da Nang to continue working.</p>
<p>A little update on my indie projects. Focaro seems to be published in the near future. I was supposed to publish at the end of November to complete 2/3 of the November checklist. The checklist that was actually completed was that my X account reached 200 followers. The other 2 checklists I haven&#39;t completed yet. Looks like I&#39;ll move it to December. I also just bought a <a href="http://bolt.new">bolt.new</a> account, which promises to be a productive month. My plan is to open an Apple developer account and try to publish an appstore project this month.</p>
<p>That&#39;s probably it. Because this month is also full of things. Final exams, receiving projects at the company. It&#39;s probably going to be a busy month.</p>
<p>Bye bye</p>
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            <title><![CDATA[Day 25: Toeic test day]]></title>
            <link>https://dinhtin.writizzy.blog/p/day-25-toeic-test-day</link>
            <guid>https://dinhtin.writizzy.blog/p/day-25-toeic-test-day</guid>
            <pubDate>Sun, 30 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Today is the day of the TOEIC test. Actually, I'm mentally preparing to take the test again next January, because I think I won't pass anyway. I waited quite a long time in the exam room. About an hour after I got there, it started. Everything was quite professional, there's nothing to complain about. But I really regret not spending a few hundred thousand more to switch to the computer test. The paper test is fine, but I don't know the results right after the test, so now I have to wait 10 days for the test results. To know if I failed or passed so I can register for the test again.]]></description>
            <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Today is the day of the TOEIC test. Actually, I&#39;m mentally preparing to take the test again next January, because I think I won&#39;t pass anyway. I waited quite a long time in the exam room. About an hour after I got there, it started. Everything was quite professional, there&#39;s nothing to complain about. But I really regret not spending a few hundred thousand more to switch to the computer test. The paper test is fine, but I don&#39;t know the results right after the test, so now I have to wait 10 days for the test results. To know if I failed or passed so I can register for the test again.</p>
<p>A little about the test. I couldn&#39;t hear most of the listening part, I randomly chose a lot. It seems that because I didn&#39;t study much, I was a bit confused about the listening part. I got stuck on the previous question quite a lot. Snowball :) I did the reading part well, but I don&#39;t know if it was right or wrong HAHA. I randomly chose the last 20 questions.</p>
<p>That afternoon, I went back to my hometown to pick up my girlfriend to go to Da Nang. There are really too many problems coming to my lover.</p>
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            <title><![CDATA[Day 24: Military]]></title>
            <link>https://dinhtin.writizzy.blog/p/day-24-military</link>
            <guid>https://dinhtin.writizzy.blog/p/day-24-military</guid>
            <pubDate>Sat, 29 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[This morning I woke up quite early, at 6am to prepare everything to go for the military service examination. I went with my brothers who have been friends since childhood, it's been a long time since I had the chance to go together. One guy lives in Saigon, the other works in a place far from home. I study and work in Da Nang.]]></description>
            <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This morning I woke up quite early, at 6am to prepare everything to go for the military service examination. I went with my brothers who have been friends since childhood, it&#39;s been a long time since I had the chance to go together. One guy lives in Saigon, the other works in a place far from home. I study and work in Da Nang.</p>
<p>The examination experience was quite fun, complete from beginning to end but I didn&#39;t need to do the part about taking off all my clothes. My eyes are nearsighted, 3.75 diopters with astigmatism. So my health is classified as category 5 so no one will take me in :) So I didn&#39;t get examined as thoroughly as the others. After the examination, we all went for coffee, even though it was quite late, we still stayed for coffee and chatted a bit.</p>
<p>That afternoon, I didn&#39;t do much, took a nap and then went back to Da Nang. Preparing for the English certificate exam tomorrow, to be honest, I still don&#39;t have many words in my head. I&#39;m confused, and I really know it&#39;s late. Just go take the exam tomorrow, if you fail, you can retake it.</p>
<p>Update on my new project, a small Mac app. Today is nothing new compared to yesterday HAHA. Try to finish the code tomorrow and release phase 1 first. To survey if users are really interested.</p>
<p>Bye bye, good luck to me.</p>
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            <title><![CDATA[Day 23: Fridayyyyy]]></title>
            <link>https://dinhtin.writizzy.blog/p/day-23-hhhhh</link>
            <guid>https://dinhtin.writizzy.blog/p/day-23-hhhhh</guid>
            <pubDate>Fri, 28 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[New]]></description>
            <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This morning was the first day of the fixing my sleep challenge. The first day was okay, I slept at 12 and woke up at 7:20. Actually, I woke up earlier but the cold weather made me delay until 7:20.</p>
<p>I went to work quite early this morning. I only learned a few things in the DataZoomcamp course this morning. I was stuck installing the Postges CLI library and it hasn&#39;t been fixed yet. At noon, I went out to eat with some colleagues, although we went out together, we split into 3 different groups to eat HAHA. After eating, I went to sit in a cafe with the Lead from the CMS team, he has been working here for quite a long time, 12 years. Actually, it&#39;s quite a long time, I never thought I would work for a company for more than 3 years, really HAHA. It&#39;s not that I&#39;m not loyal to the company, but I want to learn new things, want to be in a newer environment. I don&#39;t like stability.</p>
<p>Going to coffee with him, I also realized quite a lot of things. It is not necessary to know too many different tech stacks. Sometimes just 1 or 2 tech stacks are enough to work and make a living. And it is not necessary to follow the customer&#39;s request, but you have to focus on the mindset of consulting customers and orienting customers to the technology you know best, implementing with the least cost. I asked: Does Drupal have the ability to survive or have many job opportunities? He answered quite simply: Before you started working, Drupal had already released about 5 to 6 versions, and now you are still working, I understand enough.</p>
<p>The reason why when I first applied to the company, there was also a Software Engineer position, but I read quite carefully, I read that the company used many CMS platforms, so I guessed that if this stack was true, I would not really like it, even though it was true to my role, if I continued with that role, my experience time would also increase. But I still chose Data engineer, a completely new role. Up to now, I still don&#39;t feel any regret or mistake.</p>
<p>That same afternoon, my brothers and I had a farewell party for him, he returned to HCM, ending a one-week business trip in Da Nang. My brothers and I also met another guy who also worked in the company but he worked remotely, as a collaborator or something, I don&#39;t know his role very well. I heard that this guy, the CEO and the team leader, were classmates in the same year at a famous school in Da Nang. It was really WOWWW.</p>
<p>Let me tell you a little about this afternoon, there was a session to participate in to get training on some topic. I remember it was Professional mindset or something. I participated for the sake of it but I really didn&#39;t get anything. Partly because of the connection and partly because I&#39;m not really interested in these soft skills training sessions.</p>
<p>Tonight I had the opportunity to sit in a coffee shop alone :) Actually, I waited for my lover, went out to eat with colleagues and then we both went back to our hometown. Sitting here, I was really thinking about reviewing English for the exam this weekend. But I was really caught up in a new project of mine (yes, I&#39;ve skipped a few projects, don&#39;t know when I&#39;ll do it again HAHA).</p>
<p>This project is really out there on the market. It&#39;s even hated by the indie hacker community when they hear that someone started making money by creating apps like this. The value it brings is really little. But I don&#39;t care about that. I need it, I make it for myself, if anyone has a common need, I&#39;ll sell it. Solve my problem first. My problem is that I want a Pomodoro clock like that, and I want it to be a widget that displays on a small screen, but I don&#39;t see any products, so I just make it (or I haven&#39;t found one yet). It&#39;s that simple. HEHE</p>
<p>Oh my god, this Sunday I have an English test, tomorrow I have a military service examination, and I really have nothing in mind. But now studying is meaningless. So I will continue to build and ship. If I fail, I will retake the test, HAHAA.</p>
<p>Bye bye, it&#39;s past my bedtime. Don&#39;t forget 30 days of fixing my sleep. I will update every day. HAHA</p>
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            <link>https://dinhtin.writizzy.blog/p/day-22-thursday</link>
            <guid>https://dinhtin.writizzy.blog/p/day-22-thursday</guid>
            <pubDate>Thu, 27 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[This morning]]></description>
            <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This morning, I woke up early, around 6am, but the weather was really cold. And I couldn’t get out of bed immediately at that point. This weather is great just lying around wrapped in blanket sleeping until bored HAHA. But life didn’t allow me to do that, I couldn’t be lazy like that. Even though the cold weather could make me skip school at any time before HAHA. I had to get up for cooking rice and prepare some food for lunch. And prepared a bottle of black coffee for a productive working day. </p>
<p>I rode my motorbike across the familiar road every day. This morning the weather was quite nice, there was no rain at all, the cold weather made people lazy. Gradually I feel more and more interested in this new path of Data engineer. Maybe because I just started learning something new, it made me interested at first. Hopefully it can keep me here and help me go further, and further help me earn more money from this job.</p>
<p>Today, the office was quite empty. Most of them asked to work remotely, some asked for leave because of school schedules. One of my team leaders had to go on a business trip to Thailand. My team only has 2 people, me and another guy. Although we are in the same team and sit in the same row, we sit at opposite ends of the table. We rarely interact with each other :) Unlike before at my old company, I often went back and forth and had time to discuss many topics with each other.</p>
<p>What did I do today? Although I finished the assignment yesterday, I still optimized a few things. In general, there were quite a lot of things, too many to remember to mention HEHE. I also found a pretty good course on Data engineer. DataZoomcamp. Maybe I will follow this course first and then think about the next thing.</p>
<p>Bye,</p>
<p>See you</p>
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            <title><![CDATA[Day 21: A free day]]></title>
            <link>https://dinhtin.writizzy.blog/p/day-21-a-free-day</link>
            <guid>https://dinhtin.writizzy.blog/p/day-21-a-free-day</guid>
            <pubDate>Wed, 26 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[How was your day, my day was shit ! ]]></description>
            <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>How was your day, my day was shit ! </p>
<p>Today was almost the last day of school for this semester, but I still couldn&#39;t submit the last 2 assignments to the teacher, oh shit. This afternoon I told myself to spend the whole day studying for the English exam, but I really didn&#39;t study much.</p>
<p>Yesterday I had a tarot reading (just used AI for fun) for today. The reading said that today should prioritize creativity, doing something new. But I didn&#39;t really follow that advice, haha. Because my head was in a mess with the upcoming English certificate exam.</p>
<p>This afternoon a member of my Data engineer team announced in a private group with 4 people talking to each other. He said that he would quit and not continue to work there anymore. He said he didn&#39;t fit in here. I don&#39;t know what fit in, while he had only worked here for 2 days. But to be honest, I have never found something that really suits me. Even when I told my colleagues at my old company about this, they said they never felt it was a good fit for me even after 4-5 years of working there. I don’t know why, it’s so confusing.</p>
<p>Just updated a little bit.</p>
<p>See you tomorrow</p>
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            <title><![CDATA[Day 21: Environment]]></title>
            <link>https://dinhtin.writizzy.blog/p/day-21-environment</link>
            <guid>https://dinhtin.writizzy.blog/p/day-21-environment</guid>
            <pubDate>Tue, 25 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[It must be said that the environment is what will help us move forward in everything, in all aspects. Not instant motivation or dopamine. Motivation only makes you a little interested in doing something at that time, it does not make you able to go long term. Positive motivation or dopamine will not be maintained for long if you do not spend time to exercise (like me). So I always create for myself an environment that allows me to move forward sustainably.]]></description>
            <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It must be said that the environment is what will help us move forward in everything, in all aspects. Not instant motivation or dopamine. Motivation only makes you a little interested in doing something at that time, it does not make you able to go long term. Positive motivation or dopamine will not be maintained for long if you do not spend time to exercise (like me). So I always create for myself an environment that allows me to move forward sustainably.</p>
<p>Every day, I have the habit of walking around X, Uneed and ProductHunt. Currently, these are the environments that keep me burning with a passion for building products. Although I do not spend as much time building as before, I will still keep that fire.</p>
<p>The same goes for the corporate environment, when everyone around me focuses on their laptops to do their own work, it also makes it impossible for me to be distracted by other things. Although I don&#39;t like the corporate environment very much, it&#39;s restrictive, not free, not comfortable to express my personality. But it&#39;s also a part that will help me grow every day.</p>
<p>The university environment, a place that has helped me grow every day. I received the necessary knowledge for my whole life, friends who help each other in every situation. This is really precious.</p>
<p>The living environment. What will distract me the most is the surrounding sounds, the sound of my friends&#39; games, the sound of talking and laughing. But that doesn&#39;t mean I can&#39;t create an environment for myself. I will clean my desk to start a session with my laptop.</p>
<p>Today working at the company is quite effective, quite productive. I feel like I can do everything in the morning, can complete all the tasks assigned for a week in the morning. After a nap at noon and waking up, I can only concentrate for about 30-60 minutes. It seems like I&#39;m almost done with everything (although it&#39;s not done, only about 70-80%) but I get distracted by other things and procrastinate thinking that there are still 1-2 days left, why do it so soon. I&#39;m trying to get rid of this, procrastination is a disease I always have.</p>
<p>Today I had the opportunity to listen to podcasts again, by chance, just in the morning full of energy with a cup of coffee by my side. I turned on Spotify to listen to some music to inspire me to work, but I came across a few podcasts by The Tri Way, a podcast I&#39;ve listened to quite a bit before. Listening and working, it feels so relaxing :)</p>
<p>Recently, after every afternoon of work, I feel quite hungry, I feel like I could faint at any time :) That&#39;s a good sign, I think, I read somewhere that the more brain activity, the more energy will be consumed, and I will get hungry quickly. I don&#39;t know if it&#39;s true or not, but it&#39;s probably true :) That also shows that it&#39;s a good sign, showing that my brain is still active. HAHA</p>
<p>Tomorrow I go to school, I only study in the morning, but I&#39;d like to work remotely all day, just to change the working atmosphere. The company allows 1 remote day a week. I plan to use it all. I won&#39;t miss a day :)</p>
<p>See you tomorrow</p>
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            <title><![CDATA[Day 20: First day]]></title>
            <link>https://dinhtin.writizzy.blog/p/day-20-first-day</link>
            <guid>https://dinhtin.writizzy.blog/p/day-20-first-day</guid>
            <pubDate>Mon, 24 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Firstday]]></description>
            <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What first day? First day of the new week... First day of internship at a new company, first day in a new position, no longer a software engineer but a data engineer. This decision was quite difficult at first but it&#39;s okay, once you&#39;ve chosen it, you have to go all the way. But i haven&#39;t given up on software yet, i still build and publish haha.</p>
<p>The first day was not much, the whole morning was just sitting in the onboarding meeting with the teams, Da Nang team and HCM team, the meeting was quite long, and the internet connection was quite poor, so it made me a bit uncomfortable in the morning :) At noon, I had a meal with my colleagues and 2 Leaders. Honestly, I didn&#39;t say much, I seemed a bit bewildered with the new environment, not yet familiar. In the afternoon, I continued to have a meeting with the Leader and the Data engineering team. There was a clear roadmap and the promotion path was also okay. Everything seemed to be quite good at the beginning, without any difficulties.</p>
<p>I have returned to start my journey of learning data engineer from the beginning on DataCamp with what I missed the previous days. In addition, I enrolled in 1 more track of <a href="http://Deeplearning.AI">Deeplearning.AI</a> on Coursera. I don&#39;t know if I can finish 2 courses to get the certificate, but I will try. And in the future, I will share my process of learning Data engineer (planning but not sure if I will do it yet haha).</p>
<p>Just a little update on the new journey, new week. </p>
<p>Have a good day. I’m going to bed. For a day full of energy tomorrow.</p>
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            <title><![CDATA[Day 19: Sunday raining]]></title>
            <link>https://dinhtin.writizzy.blog/p/day-19-sunday-raining</link>
            <guid>https://dinhtin.writizzy.blog/p/day-19-sunday-raining</guid>
            <pubDate>Sun, 23 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[I just woke up ]]></description>
            <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I just woke up from a sudden sleepiness :) But the special thing that made me sit up and jump on my laptop was not to study or build something, it was to blog on writizzy. Surprisingly, blogging has now become a habit of mine, usually people say that doing something continuously for 21 days will create a habit for you and this is the 19th day I blog on writizzy.</p>
<p>Today it rained all day, it was a very normal Sunday. This morning my family held a memorial day for my grandfather&#39;s brother. After that I picked up my uncle&#39;s son to take him out, he is young but extremely playful. I rarely go to cybergame and billiards but I had to take him out. It was quite fun, it&#39;s been a long time since I played at cybergame.</p>
<p>Actually there is nothing more to say, just a pretty chill Sunday. Ready for a busy new week, full-time internship from Monday to Friday, military service medical examination on Saturday, toeic test on Sunday. Honestly, with this schedule, I don’t think about building at all. That’s probably why many people choose to quit uni and quit 9-5 to focus on becoming a real indie hacker.</p>
<p>See you tomorrow and sharing about my very first day at new company.</p>
<p>New company, new trip.</p>
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            <title><![CDATA[Day 18: Teacher's day late]]></title>
            <link>https://dinhtin.writizzy.blog/p/day-18-teacher-s-day-late</link>
            <guid>https://dinhtin.writizzy.blog/p/day-18-teacher-s-day-late</guid>
            <pubDate>Sat, 22 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Today I went to school, woke up a bit late so I skipped the first class. And there was a class that I had to present later. This class was about E-commerce, but when working in groups, the teacher didn’t ask for a system or any deep technical requirements. It was just a small group exercise to understand how to build a brand for a product, the ]]></description>
            <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Today I went to school, woke up a bit late so I skipped the first class. And there was a class that I had to present later. This class was about E-commerce, but when working in groups, the teacher didn’t ask for a system or any deep technical requirements. It was just a small group exercise to understand how to build a brand for a product, the reason is that it was already available and known by many local users but didn’t have a brand. Our job was to build a logo, plan, design product packaging and so on. Although it was quite tiring because I didn’t have the ability to design things, it was quite interesting (actually I didn’t do much hahah). If you want to see what we do, check this post on X (<a href="https://x.com/dinhtintr03/status/1992075837198471323">https://x.com/dinhtintr03/status/1992075837198471323</a>)</p>
<p>This afternoon I went to the supermarket with my family, a new supermarket opened nearby. It was quite big and had a lot of interesting things, but beacause it had just opened, it was quite crowded, full of people. When it came time to pay, it was a nightmare, the line was extremely long. I think I will come back after a while to stabilize, so it is less crowded. I bought myself a jar of instant coffee, preparing for my full-time internship next week. Hopefully it will be as good as I imagined.</p>
<p>Tonight  I returned to my hometown, although I initially thought I wouldn’t visit my teachers with my friends (instead of November 20th). But my friends went straight to my house and dragged me along. We visited 3 teachers, but 2 of them were absent. And finally we visited our 12th grade homeroom teacher, Mr. Nin. It’s been a long time since I’ve seen him, he’s a pretty great person. We talked for quite a while, past 9pm hehe.</p>
<p>I think i will write more blog about engineering in the near future, specifically data engineering. The position i will be working in for the next 3 months. Although it is not related or my desire to serve my indie app project. But i don&#39;t want to waste 3 months of internship here. Let&#39;s try new domains, maybe it will make me more interested. I plan to share what i learned about data engineering. Hope it can be useful for someone.</p>
<p>Oh no, i still don&#39;t know what topic to do capstone project.</p>
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            <title><![CDATA[Day 17: It's raining less now]]></title>
            <link>https://dinhtin.writizzy.blog/p/day-17</link>
            <guid>https://dinhtin.writizzy.blog/p/day-17</guid>
            <pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Buried in a pile of homework for this semester. The last semester is still in class during university. Next semester is the last semester but only for internship and capstone project. Most of the homework this semester revolves around course projects as well as group presentations. I am quite interested in course projects because I can learn other new technologies, but the presentation exercises revolve around researching and making slides, I have no interest in it at all. But no matter what, it has to be done…]]></description>
            <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Buried in a pile of homework for this semester. The last semester is still in class during university. Next semester is the last semester but only for internship and capstone project. Most of the homework this semester revolves around course projects as well as group presentations. I am quite interested in course projects because I can learn other new technologies, but the presentation exercises revolve around researching and making slides, I have no interest in it at all. But no matter what, it has to be done…</p>
<p>Recently, I often see articles on X related to quitting university and quitting 9-5 to become a full-time indie hacker. I think quitting 9-5 is quite normal because I think that when they have a period of time working 9-5, they will more or less have a reserve fund for the next few months to start a new journey, as well as in-depth work experience. The clearest case study is *Tony Dinh, *he quit 9-5 at the time when he had saved up a sum of money that could be used for 2 years. He was really careful. I think that was more or less influenced by his starting point as an Asian, Asians always prepare for the worst before doing something. Coming back to quitting university to become a full-time indie hacker, I find this quite risky, even I my self have never thought about it (maybe because I am in my final year or because Asian parents have a hard time accepting their children dropping out of school).</p>
<p>Next week I will start a new internship for the position of Data engineer. I have never done this position before, only revolving around AI and Software engineer. Why did I choose Data engineer even though I have no experience? I think I am still in the learning period so I want to try all IT-related positions. Many experiences to know where I belong. Just like building my own products, before I always thought that I would build products really fast to hope that one day my app would suddenly reach users and accidentally make money. I just built from one product to another but I did not really pay attention or feel that it really solved the user’s pain. I have changed my mindset.</p>
<p>As for my current number of followers on X. It&#39;s stagnant around 250 followers. I&#39;ve stopped commenting around to get new followers, I think it&#39;s no longer necessary, having a lot of new followers but no one really interacts with you as a human is like zero. I really realized this since I met a friend on X, he only has around 50 followers but he earns revenue of ~500usd, this proves that it&#39;s not too important.</p>
<p>See you tomorrow.</p>
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            <title><![CDATA[Day 16: A cold day in Da Nang]]></title>
            <link>https://dinhtin.writizzy.blog/p/day-16-a-cold-day-in-da-nang</link>
            <guid>https://dinhtin.writizzy.blog/p/day-16-a-cold-day-in-da-nang</guid>
            <pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Today in Da Nang is really quite cold. No heavy rain, just a drizzle, but the weather is chilly, riding a motorbie outside for a bit makes my skin shiver. The weather is around 20-21 degrees, but it feels like 17-18. It’s been a long since the weather has been this]]></description>
            <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Today in Da Nang is really quite cold. No heavy rain, just a drizzle, but the weather is chilly, riding a motorbie outside for a bit makes my skin shiver. The weather is around 20-21 degrees, but it feels like 17-18. It’s been a long since the weather has been this cold this year. But I like this kind of weather, just cold, no rain. It’s very difficult to go somewhere in the rain, and some other provinces are heavily flooded. I don’t like it.</p>
<p>Today is also a very special day, my darling’s birthday. We had a warm evening, hehe. We talked about everything (even though we see each other everyday, hahaa). Surprisingly, she always reads my blog, I thoght she wouldn’t read any of my posts, but no. She is working in a Content SEO position. A pretty good position where your task is to write articles so that the partner’s websites are at top of search results. And there are actually a lot of tools to do this job that I have never known. I asked her if she had any difficulties while writing, so that I could use that as a niche to make software for people with the same problem. But she said no, just focus on your work HAHA.</p>
<p>A little update on my new product. I bought a domain for it, instead of using the free domain of vercel like before, it&#39;s very ugly, which I think also affects quite a bit whether users decide to visit or not. Although the new domain I bought here is actually not very nice, not .com or .io, just .site. And it&#39;s almost free on NameCheap so I decided to buy it ($0.20 for the first year, a promotion for 2025 on NameCheap). But things are still not going smoothly, I&#39;m in the process of integrating a little backend into the product to be able to save users or some basic data. Everything is fine until integrating payment, I used Polar for my recent project (Travel Memory Studio) before. It was quite simple to integrate, but today I made another decision to use LemonSqueezy for this product and I really failed this time, everything is still not completely fine. But it seems like my LemonSqueezy account is having some problem or something, it is always in In review and Test mode, I don&#39;t understand why it takes so long to review. Actually, this is not the first time I tried using LemonSqueezy, I also tried it before (around August or September this year for my first project, StudioraHub) but I only created a Product on it and did not integrate it into the project, just testing. But until now it is still in In review status, why? And recently I also read an article on the Build in public VN community on facebook, there was an article warning when using LemonSqueezy that the support department there is quite poor (I only remember that, I don&#39;t remember the details). FYI: Stripe cannot use in Vietnam. </p>
<p>I think I should slow down, everything should not be rushed. As in Vietnam I have a saying &quot;Haste makes waste&quot;, it is true for me right now. Haste will make the product worse. And maybe no one will spend time on your product, let alone spend money to use it.</p>
<p>Keep calm and keep going.</p>
<p>See you tomorrow</p>
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            <title><![CDATA[Day 15: Men's day and rearrange]]></title>
            <link>https://dinhtin.writizzy.blog/p/day-15-men-s-day</link>
            <guid>https://dinhtin.writizzy.blog/p/day-15-men-s-day</guid>
            <pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Really supprising ]]></description>
            <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Really supprising, I have a gift for today. Actually, I never thought about having a day for men before. It’s really not necessary. But today, I received a small gift from the girls in my university class. Thank you very much.</p>
<p>This afternoon, I made a decision that mad me feel relieved. I will no longer continue working with the startup group I mentioned the other day. Honestly, I am not very suitable for working in a group, haha. However, that is not the only reason I decided not to continue. The idea is very good, but the implementation of the idea is very problematic. The original proposal was to raise capital through the indiegogo platform, a place I have never had any experience with. After listening to a member of team explain how to use methods to circumvent and run a campaign on indiegogo, I am no longer interested (anything related to law is quite complicated).</p>
<p>Also today I rearranged all my work and studies. Specifically, I will arrange the things that make me bored and don’t want to do the most to do at the beginnig of the day. Things like reviewing for TOEIC test, I do at the beginning of the day, because these things make me no longer interested in other things. And spend the evening building what I like. There are times when I almost end the day but still haven’t finished the todolist for that, I feel quite uncomfortable, but having to get up to do it in that dislike will make me more bordeom. So from today, I will do the things that make me bored first, then do the things I like later.</p>
<p>One thing I did again is I used a small notebook to write down the things I wanted to write in my blog. This made my blogging smoother than usual. In the past, I always had to try to remember what happened and what I wanted to write, which was quite time consuming and made me lazy to write.</p>
<p>I finished writing today&#39;s blog post while reading Thomas&#39; drama with someone using Uneed. HAHA</p>
<p>Byebye. </p>
<p>See you tomorrow</p>
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            <title><![CDATA[Day 14: Raining day]]></title>
            <link>https://dinhtin.writizzy.blog/p/day-14-raining-day</link>
            <guid>https://dinhtin.writizzy.blog/p/day-14-raining-day</guid>
            <pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[It’s raining again]]></description>
            <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>There will come a time when you feel like you can’t say anything, you have no energy at all. I’ve had this problem a lot recently, and I understand the reason very well. It’s because my sleeping schedule is very strange, I sleep late and wake up early. Not getting enough sleep will cause you more problems than not making money, so go to bed early and get enough sleep, everyone.</p>
<p>Today there was a pretty big event, that is CloudFlare was down for a pretty long time. All the big guys today like ChatGPT, Claude, and a few other big guys were also greatly affected by this event. Not only the big guys were affected, but most of us programmers were greatly affected, from the website server being affected, reducing work efficiency quite a lot because we could not use AI tools :)</p>
<p>Through that event, it is enough to understand that, for us indie hackers today, dependency on AI platforms or tools (standing on the shoulders of giants) is inevitable, and extremely difficult to escape. It cannot be denied that AI helps us a lot, from saving time writing code line by line to design or everything, AI can cover almost. One thing that is inevitable is that people will gradually become much lazier in thinking (including me).</p>
<p>My day was really bad, from studying to building. Really bad.</p>
<p>Maybe tomorrow will be different. :) Hopefully</p>
<p>See you tomorrow.</p>
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            <title><![CDATA[Day13: Challenging]]></title>
            <link>https://dinhtin.writizzy.blog/p/day13-challenging</link>
            <guid>https://dinhtin.writizzy.blog/p/day13-challenging</guid>
            <pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[A little update, ]]></description>
            <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>New week again, really don’t like the feel when start a new week (haha just link the weekend)</p>
<p>This morning, I submited some documents for registering the English Test (TOEIC - it’s for my expected graduation on 6/2026). My english skill from the past to the present, I never confidence with that, afraid to speak with someone. Just basis conversational. And never taking the english test before. Today, I am really brave, just register before the test day 2 weeks with no preparation (my friend took this test 3 times :) ). But no problem, just try, if fail, try again. HAHAHAH</p>
<p>Even though my title is Day 13, but this is the first day of #14Posts14Days challenge. Yes, so many challenge this day.</p>
<p>If you are perceptive, you will see I change the format of my blog post. I uppercase every start word, hehehe.</p>
<p>Update about build and ship, have another idea after build the CongratePage (but haven’t released yet). </p>
<p>And I reached to over 200 followers on X. This is so amazing (plan reach that in the end of this month). My strategy from 0 → 1000 was comment, comment and comment. Comment strategy and will change to post strategy after 1000. </p>
<p>That’s all for the first day of challenge. Maybe tomorrow will great day.</p>
<p>Have a good day.</p>
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            <title><![CDATA[day11: saturday]]></title>
            <link>https://dinhtin.writizzy.blog/p/day11-saturday</link>
            <guid>https://dinhtin.writizzy.blog/p/day11-saturday</guid>
            <pubDate>Sun, 16 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[I'm having a problem with this project not finishing yet and another project pops up in my head. ]]></description>
            <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#39;m having a problem with this project not finishing yet and another project pops up in my head. </p>
<p>Today, I haven’t continued with PresentationCoach, because I saw a product like that realesed before, really good product…</p>
<p>I plan to get Toeic certificate in 30/11, have 2 weeks remain…</p>
<p>My github copilot reached to limit usage yesterday for student plan. Switch to use cursor (also student plan), and just use auto mode, don’t need to use claude 4.5 as before. Auto mode better than before so much.</p>
<p>Current followers on X ~180. My plan to get 200 followers at the end of this month. But I think it will come soon than I think. The hardest plan for this month is 10$ MRR. Really hard.</p>
<p>Today I also try another strategy marketing. Don’t build all features of product, just build and randomly post on X (dont mention anything about your product). If someone curious about it, will ask me. That’s what I think. Just experiment on X, have no result, I will update. </p>
<p>Keep going</p>
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