Chín năm sát cánh bên nhau. Chín năm cùng nhau xây dựng gia đình. Chín năm chia sẻ những ngày vui nồng ấm lẫn những giây phút gây gổ lạnh lùng.

Tôi không phải là một người chồng lý tưởng. Thậm chí tôi không phải là người đàn ông dễ dãi. Đôi lúc tôi khiến em phải khó xử. Nhiều lần tôi hổ thẹn với chính mình vì không xứng đáng với tình cảm em dành cho tôi.

Em luôn là người vợ đảm đang. Tôi quý trọng em. Em quan trọng trong đời sống của tôi. Tôi luôn cần có em cho dù em không cần đến tôi. Em là một phụ nữ cứng rắn và độc lập. Tôi không mặc cảm vì em tài giỏi và tự tin hơn tôi. Thậm chí đó là những điều tôi rất hãnh diện về em.

Chín năm trôi qua tôi cảm ơn em vẫn còn giữ lấy mối tình này. Tôi nhớ ơn em những nụ cười, những bữa ăn gia đình, những hy sinh, những cống hiến, những chia sẻ, những gánh nặng, những đắng cay, những nồng nàn, những thấu hiểu, những nhẫn nại, những niềm tin, những ân cần, những độ lượng, và những thứ tha.

Chín năm trải qua nhiều thử thách chông gai chúng ta vẫn không rời tay. Tôi xin được cùng em đi hết quãng đường đời còn lại.

In his new Netflix special, Indian-American Minhaj tells his personal stories of growing up as a son of immigrants and dealing with racism. With charismatic, charm, and confident, his message delivered: “Once you go brown. You better lock that shit down.”

The comic’s comic Macdonald talks about suicide, getting old, and his nuanced interpretation of words such as ID, metaphor, and beauty. His attention to the details, particularly on his word choices, makes his latest special fun and fascinating to watch.

I added a JSON feed using a WordPress plugin developed by Brent Simmons and Manton Reece. I deactivated dlvr.it. No more social sharing. If you want to read this blog, you have to subscribe to a feed or simply visit this site. I hope you go here because I am playing with big typography on the homepage quite often. That’s all.

Michael Ian Black and Marc Rosenthal have written and illustrated an essential book on Trump. Just in case you’re from another planet, here’s a brief description:

The beasty is called an American Trump.
Its skin is bright orange, its figure is plump.
Its fur so complex you might get enveloped.
Its hands though are, sadly, underdeveloped.

If you are curious about the 45^th President of the United States, this book is all you need. I promised myself not to read any book on Trump, but I made this exception. It’s an enjoyable five-minute read.

A few weeks ago, I tried to AMPed up this blog. The quick and easy solution is to run Automattic’s AMP plugin. After half an hour of playing with the plugin, I deactivated it and decided not to use it because it published a separate version for AMP. Furthermore, the default design looked too generic and uninspired.

My next step was to follow the tutorial on the AMP Project website to create the basic markup. The first thing I had to do was adding an external JavaScript from Google and including some default styles. I am using Typekit to display fonts, but the document doesn’t give any example on how to do so. I tried googling, but found nothing. For images, I have to use AMP’s proprietary amp-img. For CSS, I have to use AMP’s proprietary <style amp-custom>. All CSS has to be inlined since and <link rel=”stylesheet”> is disallowed. At this point, I simply gave up. The markup is now under Google standards instead of the web standards the web community has fought so hard to maintain. For performance, giving up standard markup is simply not worth it since I have done my best too keep this site as fast as possible. In addition, I don’t want to lose control of my design.

Fortunately, I am glad that I am not alone. John Gruber and others have stepped up to call for killing Google AMP. I am with them.

The author of The History of Jazz invites us inside his head and show us his own process of how he listens to jazz. It’s a fascinating read if you want to get inside the music. Reading this book reinvigorates my love for classic jazz. It’s time to load those good old Louis Armstrong, Miles Davis, and Clifford Brown into my iPhone.

Learn CSS Grid by Jonathan Suh is easy to understand and showcasing the power to create web layouts. Bookmarked it for future learning and referencing.

Valenti’s moving memoir, which chronicles her experiences of being groped, raped, exposed to, and jerked on, helps me understand better about sexism that women have to deal with everyday. As she confessed, “Doing the right thing has never come easy to me. I cheated on almost all of my boyfriends with regularity and without remorse,” Valenti’s goal is to be honest rather than motivational.

One less powerful sex offender in the world.