# Hello, world

The first post: who's writing this, how I work, and what I'll write about here.

Jason Bui · 2026-10-11 · https://jasonbui.dev/blog/hello-world

Most first programs print one line. This is the first post here, so:

```js
console.log("Hello, world");
```

I'm Jason, a self-taught engineer in Ho Chi Minh City. I've been building things for over ten
years. By day, I work as a software engineer. By night, I build my own products and post them
on [Jason Labs](https://jasonlabs.app).

This site is where I write it down: what I built, how I built it, and what I learned.

## The loop on the home page

The home page opens with three lines of code:

```js
while (!works()) {
  tryAgain();
}
```

Try, break it, try again until it works. Nobody taught me this job, so that's how I learned
it, and it's still how I work.

So the posts here won't pretend it worked the first time. What broke is usually the part worth
writing down.

## What I'll write about

Three things:

- **Builds.** A product I shipped, told as a story: the architecture, the hard parts, and what
  broke.
- **Tech.** The craft, with the code: frontend, motion, and turning a design into a page that
  feels finished.
- **Thoughts.** What I've learned doing this on my own, with a day job and my own products at
  night.

Most posts will be articles. Some will be videos, and some will be a short note.

## How to follow

There's no newsletter and no comment box here. New posts come out by [RSS](/feed.xml).

The products I've shipped are on [Work](/work), and how I got here is on [About](/about).

Now, back to the loop.