About
Hi, I’m Linh.
A solo developer building software across the stack — developer tools, backend services, and the infrastructure that runs them.
I like owning the whole stack. One week it’s a VS Code extension for a database, the next it’s a Go service, a game for my kids, or whatever problem refuses to leave me alone. Building alone means I make the trade-offs I can live with — and live with the ones I make.
This site is my public shelf. Today that shelf holds the VS Code extensions — PostgreSQL, NATS, Oracle, Redis and git history — but the workshop behind them is much broader.
What I work on
Developer tools
VS Code extensions that make databases, messaging and git feel native to the editor. The public face of this site.
Backend services
Go and TypeScript services, CLI utilities and automation — small programs that do one job well and never page me at night.
Self-hosted infrastructure
Databases, message queues, monitoring, CI — I run my own, and it teaches me more than any managed service ever did.
Experiments & side quests
AI tools, games and small apps for family and friends. Private until they’re worth your attention — then they end up on this shelf.
How I work
My rule is simple: every tool must be one I actually use. Nothing ships unless it survives my own daily work first — running on real infrastructure, against real databases, used by a genuinely impatient person: me.
I care about the details most people never notice: keyboard shortcuts that don’t fight you, results panels that render fast, credentials that stay in your keychain — never on someone else’s server. There is no server of mine.
What I build with
- TypeScript
- Go
- Kotlin
- VS Code Extension API
- Node.js
- PostgreSQL
- Redis
- NATS / JetStream
- Oracle Database
- Docker
Open by default
Almost everything I publish is free, and most of it is open source under MIT. When a project has ongoing costs or a paid tier (like Redis Explorer Pro), it exists to keep the free version alive — and it’s always optional.
Many projects stay private until they’re ready. If it’s on this site, you can rely on it.