David Hoang

Bill Pullman’s son is dating Cindy Crawford’s daughter. Getting older is weird!

Vibe coding is so great for people with ADHD. I can hang out with my cat, play Call of Duty, and work on like 8 apps at the same time from the couch.

It’s a bummer Marvel already did Age of Ultron as the AI narrative would be more compelling than Doomsday.

Proof of Concept #261: Component software: The history of OpenDoc and its relevant concepts today

What Americans get right: air conditioning What Europeans get right: eating a burger with knife and fork

Alien: Earth is, “What if we did The Raid with Aliens but also with Blade Runner-like characters?”

Very few people are talking about the power of using Cursor and Obsidian together. I write and enjoy Obsidian in my day-to-day use, but can also use an IDE to batch edit Markdown files. There are likely loads of plugins in each ecosystem to do this, bu... https://blog.davidhoang.com/2025/08/24/1160/

Skills are the new currency: https://blog.davidhoang.com/2025/08/17/skills-are-the-new-currency/

Grocery store was playing “Sweet Child o’ Mine” by Guns N’ Roses; had to do another loop in the aisles to hear Slashes’s guitar solo before leaving.

We’re hiring: Atlassian AI Design: https://blog.davidhoang.com/2025/08/10/were-hiring-atlassian-ai-design/

All the designers I know from the early mobile design era in the 2000s are now investors, starting companies, or forming studios. The future of Lickable UI and high craft is essential in this next phase.

What an amazing experience.

Today I learned that LV in the Alien films stands for, “Life Viable.”

I wonder how many designers accidentally bought $FIGS, the scrubs apparel company, thinking it was Figma.

I’m convinced the more hilarious the fish name the more delicious it is. Exhibit A: Humpty Doo Barramundi.

To survive incumbents, you have to become the incumbent.

Me on Zoom, looking at someone’s screen share of designs.

Today is the 15th anniversary of Inception; still my favorite Nolan film. I can’t think of any actor who steals the show like Tom Hardy does.

Over 5,000 Jurassic Park movies and this scene is still the most iconic. Okay, maybe Gymnastics Raptor Window Kick for different reasons.

The Big Island of Hawai’i looks like a planet in a Sci Fi film.

Lion Cold Brew is my favorite coffee, and it’s exclusive to Hawai‘i. If you’re ever on the island, grab a can. Captured with !Camera – Standard

I’m pleasantly surprised how effective this mouse is; very portable and very cool origami design! myAir.0

I can’t believe I didn’t know there was a John Madden biopic coming out with Nicholas Cage playing Madden and Christian Bale as Al Davis. The transformation is incredible. It’s directed by David O. Russell, and also Kathryn Hahn and Sienna Miller are in the cast!

Jeff Bezos should have got married on Prime Day.

Does anyone have a Freewrite device? Tempted to give this a go. getfreewrite.com/products/fre...

Caturday.

Proof of Concept #251: A primer on vibe coding

Tapestry: https://blog.davidhoang.com/2025/06/21/tapestry/

Vibe coding hack: working on two projects on Replit by using iPhone Mirroring.

Proof of Concept #250: A new MVC is emerging

Aspirational writing style.

Proof of Concept #249: The risk of being incremental

The cat distribution system at work: https://blog.davidhoang.com/2025/06/10/the-cat-distribution-system-at-work/

In case you want to follow my vibe code projects: https://github.com/davidhoang

Alien Earth looks so good!

Proof of Concept #248: Angel investing for designers

Ask not what your LLM can do for you but what you can do for your LLM.

Love these photos my friend Kathryn Gonzalez took from our post-Config Omakase dinner.

I was not expecting this.

Engament is basically a research preview for marriage.

A sad life moment I wasn’t ready for no longer able to read some physical due to the font size. Moby Dick on the Kindle, it is.

The first person I thought of when I heard of Supreme Court Justice David Souter’s passing was Homer Simpson.

When people tell me Revenge of the Sith is their favorite of the Star Wars prequels, I’m like, “Wow, I can’t believe you like it more than The Phantom Menace and Attack of the Clones…” Shocker.

Too much discourse about product moats, what is your product trebuchet?

In case people are curious, I use Open Vibe for my go-to timeline: aggregates Mastodon, Bluesky, Nostr, Threads, and more. The Adium of social networks! https://openvibe.social To publish, I use micro.blog via blog.davidhoang.com.

I am so excited about the trailer for Predator Badlands.

Career reboot: https://blog.davidhoang.com/2025/04/21/career-reboot/

Proof of Concept 242: The second archetype

If you’ve ever hit burnout and wondered what comes next, I’ve started writing about it here. It’s personal, raw, and not about productivity hacks. afterburnout.co

Losing my edge to the vibe coders: https://blog.davidhoang.com/2025/04/20/losing-my-edge-to-the-vibe-coders/