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Build Your Own X: Learning by Rebuilding the Tools We Use

A personal reflection on the Build Your Own X repository, why rebuilding real technologies from scratch is such a powerful way to learn programming, AI, systems, and web engineering.

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Anna: How I Built My Personal AI Chatbot

A deep technical case study on Anna, my personal AI chatbot for Max Hoang Journal, including the motivation, UX, RAG pipeline, markdown brain, memory layers, admin workflow, safety rules, and lessons learned.