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Huỳnh Nhân Quốc
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🌤 Today Is a Beautiful Day to Write Code

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🌙 Saturday Night Code

Last night was a Saturday.

I pushed new code for Kitbuy at around 2 AM.

No boss.

No deadline.

Just me, my laptop, and the quiet hum of thought.

Because for me, coding isn’t work — it’s how I live.

I’m a Golang Indie Hacker,

and that means sometimes I have to write code on Sundays.

While the world rushes toward No Code, Low Code, and AI stacks,

I’m still here — a farmer tilling the code fields by hand.

I’m not against AI, but I also refuse to hand over my thinking to it.

Those who truly succeed with AI all share one thing in common:

They’ve failed before.

They’re not lazy thinkers.

They’ve learned how to think deeply.

But then there are others — chasing shortcuts, hoping technology will think for them.

People talk about brain rot — the decay of thought.

But to me, the real danger is brain bot — developers who let AI think in their place.

I don’t judge.

I just believe:

“The core of programming is thought.

The core of being human is thinking.”

✨ The Chance of a Dreamer

I didn’t start coding because of some grand childhood dream.

I was good at math, but numbers never made me feel anything.

It wasn’t until ninth grade, standing in a quiet room, counting tiles on the floor,

that I realized I loved to think — to see patterns in the abstract.

Everything in life has a beginning,

and mine came from somewhere unexpected: the military.

While serving, I met an officer who sparked my curiosity about programming.

After leaving the army, I started learning HTML and CSS on my own.

That was where the journey began.

As Vietnamese composer Trúc Phương once said:

“Everything is material for life.”
And maybe, for me — programming is the material of my life.

💔 Failure, Return, and an Unfinished Dream

I once tried to start a company.

And I failed.

I thought I was building something great,

but after it collapsed, I went back to my hometown — broke, starting from zero.

I did whatever I could to survive while keeping the dream alive:

  • Delivering packages to make ends meet.
  • Building small websites to keep my server online.
  • Doing affiliate marketing to pay the bills. Back then, I stopped chasing success or fame. Just being able to live by my own code was enough.

But inside, one dream still burned quietly:

“The dream of technological independence.”
I started coding in 2015.

Almost ten years later, I look back and see a stubborn fool — but a fool who never quit.

Some people say I’m crazy for spending five years building a web framework only I use.

Maybe they’re right.

But I still love it — the code, and the version of myself who believed it was worth it.

Some build a website in five days.

I’ve spent five years, and my dream still isn’t done.

I once said — and I don’t need anyone to understand:

“I go against the wind not because I’m a kite,

but because I’m a lonely bird.”
Maybe you’ll meet me, and I won’t say hello. Forgive me.

I might be there, but my mind’s already floating somewhere in the cloud.

🌀 Golang — More Than a Language

Lately, I’ve been diving deeper into pure algorithms.

They make me think, stretch, and rewire my mind.

My favorite language? Golang.

It forces me to rethink the simplest things —

addition, subtraction, multiplication, division.

It’s no longer just a programming language.

It’s a way of life.

You might say I’m stubborn — with Rust, Vlang, Python, Node.js out there.

But I’m not here to argue about languages.

Because for me:

Mindset matters more than syntax.

Philosophy matters more than frameworks.
Someone once asked me,

“Why go to university?”
I replied,

“To learn philosophy — and how to approach problems.”
I don’t have a degree.

And I don’t need a mouse pad with a university logo on it.

🔁 Programming — A Journey With No End

Programming is a lot like life itself.

It has if, else, while, and with —

just like the loops and conditions we all go through.

When we leave school, we dream of oceans.

When we come home, we dream of something smaller — but closer to the heart.

Whether or not we become successful doesn’t matter.

What matters is what ten years of youth — and five years of code — have taught us.

In 2018–2019, when everything fell apart,

I thought about quitting — going home, finding a quiet job.

But somehow, I went back to the city.

Kept learning Go.

Kept tinkering.

Kept writing code that no one taught me.

And when the code finally ran, I smiled for the whole day.

I write about Indie Hackers,

but I always call myself a Golang Indie Hacker.

Because just saying Indie Hacker feels too practical, too focused on money.

I love Golang because it confuses me.

I love Indie Hacking because it keeps me innocent.

Technology changes every day.

But my passion stays the same.

And that’s enough.

It’s a beautiful day.

And I’m still here — writing code.

If the clouds still hold a bit of sunlight,

then I know I’m still lucky. 🌤

From a failed startup to returning home empty-handed, I kept building my dream — five years spent crafting a personal web framework no one else used.

But that’s okay. Because for me, Golang isn’t just a tool. It’s a lifestyle.

Programming is a journey with no finish line.

And every day I still get to code is a beautiful day.

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