Dear Khandice & Henry,

Congratulations on your big day! From reading your story on your wedding website, we can tell that you two are madly in love with each other. The wedding is just the beginning. The journey ahead will fill with joy, but also challenges—take it from our 17 years of experience. What had helped us weathered the storm was two bars from a Vietnamese timeless ballad written by the great late Lê Uyên Phương:

Rồi mai đây đi trên đường đời
Đừng buông tay âm thầm tìm về cô đơn.

Later, on the journey through life,
Don’t let go of my hand to seek your quiet solitude.

When things get rough, just hold on and don’t let go of your hands.

Love,

Auntie HaiDung & Uncle Donny

Type and Graphic Designer Dương Trần mentioned Vietnamese Typography in his HyperTalks 3.0. Dương gave an informative presentation and shared his own experience on designing Vietnamese diacritics.

Of course he did and the Washington Post is on sell too. I stopped reading the Post after Bezos blocked the presidential endorsement in 2024.

After six years, I had to move on from my old MacBook Pro. The main issue was that some of the keys weren’t working anymore. Typing had become slow and annoying. I tried to wait it out because I dread starting fresh. Thanks to the cloud, I only spent about 4 hours getting everything back up and running without having to do the automatic migration, which my tech guys warned me not to do.

I got my mails and Adobe Clouds up and running pretty quickly. Transmit was a piece of cake to migrate thanks to its export tool. I got new license for Nova and spent a bit of time to get SASS running again. What I worried the most was setting up MAMP. Fortunately, that was also a breeze. I was also able to run MySQL server 8.0.40 in MAMP for WordPress, which I was not able to do on the old MacBook Pro.

I got a brand new black MacBook Pro this time and it is so damn slick. I am loving it. This laptop should last another 6 or 7 years, but I might cut it down to 3 or 4 years depending on the Law Library budget.

As the heat rises to 90 degrees, I miss the snow, especially snowboarding.

I enjoy creating YouTube Shorts because I love combining music with motion. For example, this short clip of my wife skiing is just so lovely. The music is intimate and emotional. She’s skiing alone on the slopes with the snow falling. I didn’t pay attention when I put the two together. When I rewatched it, my eyes were a bit watery. The tears of joy!

George Mason University received $36 million from the Kimmy Dương Foundation to name the Long Nguyễn and Kimmy Dương School of Computing within the College of Engineering and Computing. Mason:

Duong was born in Nha Trang, Vietnam, in 1945 and earned a bachelor of science in economics and law from the University of Saigon in 1966. She joined IBM in 1968, where she worked until she left the country in 1975, when she fled Vietnam and arrive in the United States with only $30.

For $36 millions, the least they can do is putting some diacritical marks on their names.

Classical yet contemporary, unconventional yet functional, lively yet sturdy, extravagant yet simple, NaN Tragedy, designed by Jean-Baptiste Morizot, pushes the typographic contradictions to provide a wide range of dramas and versatilities within its family. NaN Tragedy equips with solid, expressive diacritics. For Vietnamese, its acute, grave, and hook above stack to the right of its circumflex. The tail on its hook is a killer. It’s all about the detail. Take a look!

With perpendicular terminals, open counters, and distinctive flat terminal-endings, NaN Serf is designed with versatility, flexibility, and comfortability in any typographical settings. NaN Serf packs sturdy diacritics. For Vietnamese, its acute, grave, and hook above stack to the right of its circumflex. Check out NaN Serf.

In the latest episode of the Ezra Klein Show, the host talks to Jonathan Haidt on how “Our Kids are the Least Flourishing Generation We Know of.” I highly recommend it for parents. With the rise of digital addictions and AI, our kids are fucked. They don’t have the mechanism to deal with these endless stimulations. I am deeply concerned about our children.