Kent Nguyen's Lab #indatawetrust

Software & IoT Development

The Future Languages for the One-Person Dev Team: Why HTML, JS/TS, CSS, and SQL Win in the AI Era

The Future Languages for the One-Person Dev Team: Why HTML, JS/TS, CSS, and SQL Win in the AI Era

August 25, 2026

Why the core primitives of the web—HTML, CSS, JS/TS, and SQL—are the most powerful tools for building with AI. From Netscape marquee and FoxPro to modern Alpine.js, BulmaCSS, Bun, Hono, and SQLite.

AI Coding & The Master Stylesheet: Building Your Living Design Language

AI Coding & The Master Stylesheet: Building Your Living Design Language

July 27, 2026

Why AI models suffer from UI drift, how living stylesheet pages (inspired by AskLawyer.vn and LOKO.travel) anchor LLMs, and how hand-tweaking CSS tokens adds your signature touch.

ESP32 + CM4/CM5: Our Hardware Architecture for Self-Hosted AIoT

ESP32 + CM4/CM5: Our Hardware Architecture for Self-Hosted AIoT

July 14, 2026

The two-tier hardware stack behind our AIoT deployments — low-power ESP32 edge nodes plus a CM4/CM5 local core — keeping data on-site for homes, factories, resorts and schools.

The Lean Stack: Why We Went Back to HTML, CSS, and Fundamentals

The Lean Stack: Why We Went Back to HTML, CSS, and Fundamentals

July 4, 2026

How Alpine.js, htmx, Bulma, Bun and Hono replaced the React/Next.js pipeline in our work — and why self-hosting is the core of a real local AI strategy.

Rust on ESP32 and Single-Board Computers: Our Embedded Stack

Rust on ESP32 and Single-Board Computers: Our Embedded Stack

July 10, 2026

Why Rust replaced C and Python scripts in our embedded work — memory safety on ESP32, single static binaries on SBCs, and why AI agents write Rust so well.

AI Minions and the New Operating System for Work

AI Minions and the New Operating System for Work

March 18, 2026

If you are still managing people the traditional way, you might already be falling behind the invisible operating system that is quietly running modern startups.

The Rise of the One-Person Dev Team

The Rise of the One-Person Dev Team

March 1, 2026

Entire engineering departments are quietly being outperformed by single developers who have figured out how to orchestrate the right fleet of agents.

Our servers were attacked on Vietnamese New Year 2026 by a Vietnamese Botnet - 18th Feb 2026.

Our servers were attacked on Vietnamese New Year 2026 by a Vietnamese Botnet - 18th Feb 2026.

February 19, 2026

How a forgotten caching database led to a major holiday outage, and why AI on the server saved the day.

Digital Forensic with AI 101 - Corporate Espionage by NS and DNS manipulation

Digital Forensic with AI 101 - Corporate Espionage by NS and DNS manipulation

December 23, 2025

A deep dive into a case of corporate sabotage using DNS manipulation and how AI accelerates digital forensics.

The AI Tipping Point: What Founders and CXOs Should Do Next

The AI Tipping Point: What Founders and CXOs Should Do Next

March 30, 2025

The window to adapt your business model to artificial intelligence is closing much faster than the conservative projections want you to believe.

AI is my Co-founder, VC Mentor, Ghostwriter, and Coffee Buddy

AI is my Co-founder, VC Mentor, Ghostwriter, and Coffee Buddy

November 15, 2023

How integrating proprietary AI tools transformed my daily workflow, from project management to materials science ideation.