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Huyen Tue Dao
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Android Developer @ Netflix. Formerly Trello, Adobe. Computer engineer. Podcast co-host. YouTuber-ish.

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半分はできた！
Screenshot of a WaniKani level-up congratulation screen showing several cute kappas cheering on either side of a medal. The medal has a ribbon with "31" on it and a "Congratulations on leveling up!" in Japanese.
June 3, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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Screenshot from wanikani.com of the congratulations message for levelling up to 25.
March 19, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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My bad. Didn't see the other post.
Transaction to Liberty Ukraine Foundation.
March 2, 2025 at 5:17 AM
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✌️
Transaction to Liberty Ukraine Foundation
March 2, 2025 at 5:14 AM
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Okay, this is a really fun, sleeper large screen experience for watching football in YouTube TV: stats, key plays, + other scores on the side. Yes, these are easy to access in compact mode (+ they don't cover up the video, yay!). But in large screen, it's like my own little football command center.
Screen of the YouTube TV app in large screen mode. The video for the Rams @ Eagles game is taking up most of the space (but blacked-out in screenshot for IP reasons). On the right is a panel showing stats for team and individual player stats with a highlight in Saquon Barkley. Screen of the YouTube TV app in large screen mode. The video for the Rams @ Eagles game is taking up most of the space (but blacked out in screenshot for IP reasons). On the right is a panel showing the latest key plays as cards, with a summary of the play as badges and tags at the top of each card. The main body of the card has a large picture of each player along with their name and text description of the play.
January 19, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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Finishing the day with Washington Football and Roy Rogers (just a really nostalgic thing for me and my family).
An open box of Roy Rogers chicken that says "Warning: our chicken is addictive".
January 19, 2025 at 2:41 AM
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Started off with an amazing cake that was so many things I love. A chocolate genoise sandwiched between two layers of meringue and filled with berries. Actually there was a little chocolate in the meringue and icing. Made and assembled by three of my favorite women in the whole world.
Top down shot of Huyen's meringue and chocolate genoise birthday cake. On top of the cake around the perimeter are droplets of icing that look just like the meringue, each with a blueberry or blackberry or raspberry on top. Four icing dollops in the middle hold 4 brightly colored, striped and polka dot candles that have already been blown out.
January 19, 2025 at 12:52 AM
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January 18, 2025 at 3:38 AM
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終わりまでの三分の一
Screenshot of the congratulations message for reaching Level 20 on Wani Kani. A medal is flanked by four smiling chibi kappa. The medal has a ribbon that has 20 written in kanji and underneath it translates to "Congratulations on levelling up!"
January 3, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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I can still eat a dozen blue crabs. Claws, tomalley, all. This place is the last place I had lunch with mom. Getting through a dozen gave lots of time for stories about Vietnam. We took a selfie in front of the water on the way out. @cephus.bsky.social comes with me and we still take a pic for mẹ.
Me in my happy place, sitting at a brown paper topped table with a dozen steamed blue crabs poured out on the table, orange and coated in spice. Unsweetened ice tea and waters are crowded to one side. I already cracked into the first one and it tastes awesome, like home. I'm smiling happily with eyes closed tight. This restaurant is on the water with a large enclosed area. Christmas lights still cover the enclosed outside dining area and the stairs up to the parking lot. It's already dusk. Josh and are standing on the steps up, so the waterfront is visible behind us. This is where Mom and I took a selfie out last lunch here.
December 30, 2024 at 3:15 AM
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Woooooooohoooooo! Commanders beat the Eagles with a TD in the last 24 seconds.
A tired but happy Huyen giving a peace sign while wearing her Jayden Daniels, Number 5, jersey, celebrating the Commanders win from near a lake in Minnesota.
December 22, 2024 at 9:26 PM
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If you nudge your Duolingo friend to extend your "Friend Streak", this is what your friend receives.

Are the content people over there okay?
Screenshot of a notification on an Android device. The title of the notification says "Christopher" and the text says "🦉 I am the owl now. Do your Duolingo."
December 22, 2024 at 7:28 PM
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🦉🔥
Screenshot of the Duolingo widget showing a 1103 streak and the Duolingo owl backing in the warmth of the hot streak fire emoji in sunglasses.
December 21, 2024 at 1:35 PM
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Duolingo continues to simultaneously amuse and horrify me with its cadre of guilt-wielding, "why haven't you extended your streak YET?" owls. This one is a whole new level of making me question my own agency in language study and really my worth as a human being in an oligarchic hellscape. 🦑🦉
Screen cap of the Duolingo widget on Huyen's desktop. The Duolingo owl is dressed a guard from the television show "Squid Games" with the streak fire emoji as its emblem while the familiar Squid game Circle, Triangle, and Square sit behind the owl, lit in blue with a spotlight seemingly shining on the viewer as they attempt to escape the cruel game of maintaining Diamond League every week.
December 21, 2024 at 2:33 AM
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TIL and I'm ECSTATIC. Another reason to love @obsidian.md! help.obsidian.md/Editing+and+...
Screenshot from Obsidian Help's "Obsidian Flavored Markdown" section. "LaTeX" is highlight in the screenshot with 2 exclamation points drawn in. The documentation is explaining types of markdown that Obsidian supports. Other types include CommonMark and GitHub Flavored Markdown.
December 13, 2024 at 8:04 PM
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Bonus: custom colored XR Unlocked Bots. Pink and purple of course.
Android Bot figuring with "XR Unlocked" on its chest. The antennae, arms, and, legs have a pink to purple gradient and the Boy's left arm is raised in hello. The back of the bot showing a purple/pink gradient from top to bottom.
December 12, 2024 at 9:51 PM
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While the form factor may change, the constant is the community presence. Glad to see @kanawish.bsky.social here, one of the OGs of Android GDEs in AR. And of course, Matthew McCullough, VP of Android Dev, passionate leader and cheerleader, sharing the team's vision for not just XR but Android.
Etienne, Huyen, and Matthew selfie-ing post session at XR Unlocked. Matthew ad-hoc taking the stage to share thoughts and wishes for Android beyond XR, alongside Stevan Silva, Yasmine Evjen, and Patrick Fuentes. Etienne Caron being interviewed at XR on his thoughts for of the event and Android XR.
December 12, 2024 at 7:53 PM
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Excited to be attending XR Unlocked to get a first look at Android XR and see the hard work of the team, including folks like @yasmine.bsky.social and @pfue.bsky.social to make the tools we know and love in everyday Android dev to the XR experience.
Conference badge with "XR Unlocked" at the top with the name "Huyen Tue Dao" and "Randomly Typing / Android Faithful" as the company names. Stevan Silva, Yasmine Evjen, and Patrick Fuentes standing at the front of the room after their XR Unlocked presentation, holding microphones and smiling as they answer audience questions. Huyen and Patrick Fuentes posing for a selfie in the entrance hallway to XR with a large, white XR logo in the background and a window out onto the rest of the pier behind them.
December 12, 2024 at 7:45 PM
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2024.12.09: 28 kg/62 lbs Snatches. New max reps: 5 on right. 20-min EMOM: 3 left + 3 right + Yoga Push-ups. Goal: swing switch b/w sides; increase time under tension by not setting bell down. Did 6 total sets; FOUR sets w/ switch switch. Thought I'd get maybe 1. Ecstatic. Warning: loud yelling.
December 11, 2024 at 2:18 AM
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2024.12.07. New mini-program with my dude, AJ Holland. 3x EMOMs to work on time under tension. Going lighter on 2-1-3 Complex w/ 2x20 kg. Took so many breaks on 4 Pull-ups/Chin-ups + 36 kg Swings that it wasn't an EMOM anymore (shite recovery day).
December 10, 2024 at 6:46 AM
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Visited dad; randomly opened up my old "treasure cabinets" which became mom's camera storage. Pulled out her vintage Nikon film camera. She bought it from a photographer cousin. She loved photography; this might be the first she bought for herself. I remember how it sounds so well. Miss you, Mom.
My mom's vintage Nikon film camera sitting on a bed with purple grey leopard print sheets. I think it's a Nikon FE Black? The lens is the original one and is metal with lovely scuffs and worn paint. I am holding mom's vintage Nikon in my right hand with my thumb on the film advance lever. The view is from behind and slightly above the camera so the leather-lile texture on the top elements is visible. The film ISO dial has a range of numbers and a cut out glass view into an inner dial that shows the actual selected ISO. The shutter button is raised with a central screw hole for attaching shutter button accessories. A portrait mode photo focused on the inner portion of the viewfinder l, which is heavy glass in a metal fixture. The viewfinder is circular and the fixture is quite thick with scuffing from use. The leather-lile texture can be seen on the top of the camera around the hot shoe and the film compartment cover. The film rewind lever is visible on the left also scuffed.
December 1, 2024 at 10:04 PM
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Adding some Vietnamese to second Thanksgiving. Helped me aunt make gỏi xoài bò khô, Vietnamese mango and beef jerky salad. The dressing is garlic (tỏi), lime juice (nước chanh), sugar (đường), and fish sauce (nước mắm). There's also chopped cilantro (ngò). Delicious. Amazing balance of flavors.
The Vietnamese mango and beef salad (gỏi xoài bò khô) server on a large oval plate with the julienned mango and cilantro in the center with pomelo pieces around the perimeter and a line of sprinkled beef jerky down the longer axis. Eight shrimp chips (bánh tôm) are scooped into the salad around the perimeter.
November 30, 2024 at 9:20 PM
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2024.11.22: Huge PR for me. 28 kg/62 lbs Getup on both the right + left side. My left shoulder was sore + stiff. The leg pop at heavy weights is a WIP. Even if the left was a little rough, I still got UP. It is hard to describe how unfathomable 28 kg for this move felt last year. 41 years old. LFG.
November 27, 2024 at 4:26 PM
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2024.11.20: Week 16, Day 3. 20-min EMOM w/ the 28 kg + 24 kg Double Kickstand Deadlifts. Form felt the best yet; no breaks. They don't look super explosive, but I can feel pull-up power is increasing from practicing 100% power from my back. 3.75 rounds of a long complex w/ 32 kg/71 lbs in 15 min.
November 22, 2024 at 1:16 AM
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And I'm throwing around weight that I didn't think I could. Be patient, take care of yourself, don't give up. LFG.
Screenshot of a Google Sheet that Huyen uses to track weights per set. In the leftmost column are moves like snatches, skater taps, Murphs, goblet thrusters, and Bulgarian split squats. And to the right are columns for each week this work is done. The weights differ per exercise and go from 16 kg to 18 kg for split squats and from 22 kg to 28 kg for snatches, and from 22 kg to 32 kg for goblet thrusters. Some exercises are bodyweight so have no weight entries.
November 21, 2024 at 4:32 AM