About me
Hey there 👋
Welcome to Web Dev Distilled Blog
🙋♂️ My name is Howard Phung. I'm a JavaScript Software Engineer (Frontend is my main focus), Voracious Reader, and Writer, besides coding, I love Fitness, Piano, and Running.
😵💫 Some Things About Me:
💻 Started coding professionally in 2020 as a full-time Frontend engineer. Hence, I worked for an e-commerce product startup and then a Fortune 500 Malaysia company with a huge legacy source code, UI library & tools.
⚗️ I make things in the chaos world of JavaScript, Computer Science, and Software Engineering more digestible. Or I would like to say "Distilled"
😄 Pronouns: He/him
🖥️ Coding Environment: Dark Mode 🕶️ + Classical Music 🎧 + Coffee ☕️ + Matcha🍵
🗣️ Speaks English, Vietnamese
📹 Documenting my learning journey, and working experience along the way. Share how I learn and build my personal projects.
🙅 NEVER: drink beer, or wine, stay late at night (I'm a morning person LOL 🤣), or skip the workout for 2 continuous days.
💬 Favourite Quote: "If it doesn't challenge you, it doesn't change you" & "Less is More"
⏰ Spare time: Reading books about tech, productivity, mindset, health, philosophy, freedom education, capitalism, marketing, and entrepreneurship... Watching documentaries on Netflix (sometimes).
📕 My learning sources: (Outputs derive from Inputs)
- Listen to podcasts or audiobooks at 2-2.5X speed every day.
- High quality online courses
- Reading book 10-20 pages per day
- Reading high-quality blog posts.
- Doing coding challenges and exercises.
- Paid mentorship, coaching, attending seminars, workshops (optional)