Paul Truong
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Paul Truong
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💻 Web developer/designer. Building websites and apps that respect users needs.

🎮 Gamer. Fighting games and RPGs are my favs.

✏️ Illustrator wannabe. I love art and illustration, just not very good at it.

🇦🇺 Australian born and raised.
Going down the diy split keyboard rabbit hole. I do not need a new hobby...I do not need a new hobby...I do not need a new hobby
October 29, 2025 at 9:16 AM
Starting Octopath Traveller 2 today!
September 27, 2025 at 3:18 AM
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I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F.

18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it.

We made this website to tell our story:
18f.org
We're not done yet | 18F
18f.org
March 1, 2025 at 10:38 PM
I spent a lot of my twenties shedding away the things I liked in my teens trying to 'grow up'. Things like video games, anime, manga, toys and drawing.

I regret it deeply now that I'm in my thirties and am working to re-embrace it.

I've also never felt more grown up.

Like what you like. Be you.
January 28, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Remember when gpus were used mostly for gaming and graphics?
January 27, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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THE INTERNET IS BUILT ON LINKS
SHARE EVERYTHING AND ANYTHING
SPIN YOUR OWN INTERWEB
patak.dev patak @patak.dev · Jan 25
About links, bluesky loves them. Please unlearn the link-in-reply tricks you've been doing elsewhere and proudly share your blog posts, videos, or any other external link in your top posts so we can all go and visit your fancy websites and then get back here to discuss and repost them. Thanks!
patak.dev patak @patak.dev · Jan 25
Not only is X throttling external links, but it is also messing with its public pages. Without an account, you don't see the conversation if you go to a post. Instead, you get ads to sign up. If you visit profiles, the latest posts are not there. Useless for microblogging. Harmful to the open web.
January 25, 2025 at 10:07 PM
THERES CROSSWORDS IN PERSONA 5?!
January 26, 2025 at 7:05 AM
Nothing like an internet outage to motivate you to finish your house chores
January 26, 2025 at 7:05 AM
Finally started persona 5 royal. Hoping it lives up to the hype!
January 24, 2025 at 11:18 PM
I just wanna work for like 4 hours a day doing good work with good people then spend the rest of my time catching up with family and friends, playing video games and doing side projects
January 23, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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After I read this, I want to crawl into a hole and throw my phone and computer out the window.
“The average person’s experience with technology is one so aggressive and violative that I believe it leaves billions of people with a consistent low-grade trauma.”
Never Forgive Them
In the last year, I’ve spent about 200,000 words on a kind of personal journey where I’ve tried again and again to work out why everything digital feels so broken, and why it seems to keep getting wor...
www.wheresyoured.at
January 22, 2025 at 3:34 AM
Is this the year I pivot into mobile app development?
January 18, 2025 at 1:27 AM
What's the biggest thing stopping you learning web development?
January 17, 2025 at 10:07 AM
How is gaming on Linux nowadays? All the junk windows keeps pushing makes me wanna move but also want to keep on gaming
January 17, 2025 at 3:06 AM
Hey y'all. Anyone their own personal website they want to plug? I'm collecting for a blog post and my upcoming email course (which will be free ofc)
January 16, 2025 at 10:50 AM
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Honestly, doing these things and ‘being boring’ is going to get you to where you want to be.

Want to be great? Have determination and grit to get there.

Do the small things that add up. That compound.

Be boring and look after you.
January 14, 2025 at 11:29 PM
For people who keep their laptop in their backpack. What do you do about the chronic back pain? Asking for a friend*

*my back is the friend
January 12, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Ain't no way that Chromakopia is not the best album of 2024 youtu.be/XutD0u4W2p8?...
Tyler, The Creator - CHROMAKOPIA Live at Camp Flog Gnaw 2024
YouTube video by Tyler, The Creator
youtu.be
January 11, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Lunchtime naps are the best. Just make sure you wake up before your next meeting
I think all the CEOs pushing for a return to the office need to take a nap on their lunch break in their own bed and learn what magic they are asking people to give up.
January 10, 2025 at 6:14 AM
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Alrighty Lobby is up for any interested come beat me up.
Starting with SF6

Type in chat or reply if you're interested and I'll tell ya the code

I'm gonna try and stream it because it makes it easier to communicate with people. Plus if anyone wants to watch and hang.
www.twitch.tv/arcaeavalent...
January 10, 2025 at 4:57 AM
New year, new web tech to learn. This time it's react native
January 10, 2025 at 4:13 AM
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“In web development, HTML is the noun, CSS is the adjective that describes the noun, and JavaScript is the verb that makes it do something.” – @cassidoo.co

cassidoo.co/post/web-dev...
January 7, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Anyone into MUDs? Curious about how would I get started?
January 8, 2025 at 4:48 AM
10,000 gecs is such a top tier album. The vibes are immaculate
January 7, 2025 at 7:53 AM