Hello there, I’m Duc!
Student, lousy programmer, tooter, Redditor and YouTube addict.
I build and manage enterprise-scale systems, and am interested in cybersecurity and accessible designs. As a team leader, I plan and execute ideas with the work ethic and commitment to deliver high-quality results. Outside of work, I’m driven by the curiosity to break systems to understand how they work.
You can view or print my CV here, and get in touch by sending me an e-mail at duc (at) ducmbui.com.
blog
I don’t write blog posts much, but here’s an archive of all the ones I’ve written. Please note that some posts on the blog may be localised in Vietnamese.
what I’m probably working on
- Get ready for the capstone courses as a final-year student
- I’m open to work! See the section above for my CV and contact information.
- Learn some skills on LinkedIn Learning and use up my student benefits
- Build my cybersecurity profile with Hack the Box and TryHackMe
- Set up and self-host services on my own domain
- Think about this website a bit too much
- Perhaps more outdoor physical exercises
On the shelf:
- Revise documentation on the BananaHackers website and maintain the BananaHackers Store
- Develop a revival fork of Mammoth, a Mastodon client for Apple devices
- Build a web client for Lemmy that mimics 2018 Reddit UI design, using React and TypeScript
Contributing to open-source projects: unfortunately none at the moment!
Or I might procrastinate and watch a lot of YouTube videos instead.
how do I pronounce your name?
In Vietnamese naming customs, the surname is positioned before the given name*, and people are referred to by their first names. My full name with Vietnamese diacritics is Bùi Minh Đức, thus I am called Duc, not Bui.
Phonetic breakdown of my first name:
- the Đ sounds like the standard English D sound;
- the ư is an unrounded vowel, spoken with a slight smile and spreaded lips;
- the c is unreleased and sounds like it ends in a sharp stop; you prepare to make a k sound but don’t actually puff air out.
For English speakers, Đức rhymes with “book” or “look” but with d as the first letter (dook). To mimic the rising tone, say as if you’re asking a quick question (dook?).
I’m okay with variations of my name such as duck or zook, however.
IPA pronounication of my name is /ɓuːj˧˩ mïŋ˧˧ ɗɨk̚˧˦/.
*In legal papers where the given name is positioned first, I prefer writing my name as “Duc Minh Bui”.
where to find me
I’m ducmbui (sometimes with a 2) most places online. If you find me elsewhere that’s not on this list, chances are I did not claim that username in time :-(
- GitHub
- GitLab
- Sourcehut
- Mastodon (bridged to Bluesky via fed.brid.gy)
- Bluesky
- Threads
- Discord (
ducmbui) - Telegram
- Reddit (alternative account)
- Digg
- YouTube
- Bandcamp
- Spotify
- Internet Archive
- Steam
You can also send me an e-mail at the address above.
This website is being served from my Raspberry Pi. For mandatory security purposes, the system keeps a log of your IP address, the URL you’re visiting on, and the date and time (in UTC) you’re visiting at. I keep this data private and never share it with anyone else.
Content on this website is made available under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY-4.0) licence, unless otherwise noted.
Source code of the website can be viewed here.
Departure Mono font is made by Helena Zhang and is used under the SIL Open Font Licence.