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Chandler Nguyen

The Archive · 2013 — Now

Notes from the practice.

Write to figure out what you actually think. The post is the second draft of a thought you had earlier in the day.

520 essays in the archive · 13 languages · 54 categories

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I Added 5 Languages to DIALØGUE in 48 Hours

I built planning documents that taught Claude Code how to localize—not just translate—then watched it execute across 5 languages in parallel, turning literal phrases into native-sounding copy.

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I Rebuilt My Entire AI Podcast App in 14 Days. I'm Terrified.

I rebuilt my podcast app in 14 days—a project that originally took 6 months. The acceleration terrifies me, and it should terrify you too.

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I Completed My Biggest Site Redesign in Years. During Breakfast.

I rebuilt my entire website in 3 days using AI—not as a coding assistant, but as my actual developer. I made the decisions; Claude Code wrote 28,000 lines.

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No. 04AI

AI Without Memory Is Just an Expensive Chatbot

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Marketing Teams Work Together. Now STRATUM Does Too.

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My Database Was "Correct." It Was Also 296x Too Slow.

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Blank Screens Kill Trust. I Had 31 of Them.

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I Built Multi-Tenancy on Day 2. On Day 67, I Rebuilt It

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I Knew What Agencies Needed—So I Built Multi-Tenancy on Day 2

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I Asked My AI Strategy Agent to Audit Our Landing Page. Here's What Happened

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STRAŦUM: The 9-Agent Marketing Application I Built in 75 Days (Solo, While Sick for 10)

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The HTTP/HTTPS Debugging Nightmare: A 24-Hour Journey Through Mixed Content Hell

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