Hiep Nguyen https://hoanghiep.dev/ Recent content on Hiep Nguyen Hugo en-us Mon, 04 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 About https://hoanghiep.dev/about/ Mon, 04 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://hoanghiep.dev/about/ <p>Hi, I&rsquo;m <strong>Hiep Nguyen</strong> — a software engineer based in Vietnam.</p> <p>I write about things I&rsquo;m building, problems I&rsquo;ve solved, and ideas worth sharing.</p> <h2 id="what-i-work-on">What I Work On</h2> <ul> <li>Full-stack web development</li> <li>Systems design and architecture</li> <li>Developer tooling</li> </ul> <h2 id="get-in-touch">Get in Touch</h2> <ul> <li>GitHub: <a href="https://github.com/hiepnh610">hiepnh610</a></li> </ul> Hello World https://hoanghiep.dev/posts/2026-05-04-hello-world/ Mon, 04 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://hoanghiep.dev/posts/2026-05-04-hello-world/ First post — why I&#39;m starting this blog and what to expect. Goodbye WordPress, hello a folder of markdown files https://hoanghiep.dev/posts/2026-05-02-goodbye-wordpress/ Sat, 02 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://hoanghiep.dev/posts/2026-05-02-goodbye-wordpress/ After eight years on WordPress, I migrated everything to flat Markdown files and a static site generator. Here&#39;s what I learned and why I&#39;m not going back. A markdown CMS that fits in one Cloudflare Worker https://hoanghiep.dev/posts/2026-04-28-markdown-cms/ Tue, 28 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://hoanghiep.dev/posts/2026-04-28-markdown-cms/ A zero-dependency CMS built on top of Cloudflare Workers that reads, writes, and previews Markdown — under 200 lines of code. View transitions are the most underused web feature of 2026 https://hoanghiep.dev/posts/2026-04-21-view-transitions/ Tue, 21 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://hoanghiep.dev/posts/2026-04-21-view-transitions/ The View Transitions API shipped in every major browser over a year ago. Almost nobody uses it. Here&#39;s how to add them in an afternoon. On reading slowly https://hoanghiep.dev/posts/2026-04-07-on-reading-slowly/ Tue, 07 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://hoanghiep.dev/posts/2026-04-07-on-reading-slowly/ I used to speed-read everything. Then I stopped, and things started sticking. Self-hosting in 2026: a lazy person's setup https://hoanghiep.dev/posts/2026-03-31-self-hosting/ Tue, 31 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://hoanghiep.dev/posts/2026-03-31-self-hosting/ I run a handful of services on a single VPS. Here&#39;s the minimal setup that keeps them running without demanding my attention. Tools I quietly stopped using this year https://hoanghiep.dev/posts/2026-03-15-tools-stopped-using/ Sun, 15 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://hoanghiep.dev/posts/2026-03-15-tools-stopped-using/ Not because they&#39;re bad — just because simpler alternatives turned out to be enough. SQLite is plenty https://hoanghiep.dev/posts/2026-03-06-sqlite-is-plenty/ Fri, 06 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://hoanghiep.dev/posts/2026-03-06-sqlite-is-plenty/ For personal projects and small production apps, I&#39;ve stopped reaching for Postgres by default.