Hi, my name is Tyler, some might know me as Thuy, Tiger, or Train; and welcome to my personal website. Here you'll find various links to services that I host, along with just random things I feel like sharing with people. Please enjoy your stay here.
I'm Vietnamese and I immigrated to the United States when I was 6, I can speak both languages, although my english is substantially better.
I'm 18 years old and currently attending Orange Coast College to get my associate's degree in business administration. My hobbies include cooking, playing jazz piano, and tinkering with servers on Linux. To be quite honest I still don't know what I want to do with my life career-wise, so I'm just kind of riding the wave and getting my associate's out of the way since college is basically free for me right now. I was really adamant on becoming a chef, so much so that I applied and got accepted to the Culinary Institute of America, but sadly I couldn't afford the tuition, so that dream is somewhat dead.
I'm also the bandleader of the Tyler Hoang Trio, a jazz trio. The band was just recently formed, so no gigs yet.
Zoomer's Rants - My personal blog where I talk about politics and technology. I don't update it very often though.
Searx - My own public instance of the Searx search-engine. And no, I don't collect any logs or data if you decide to use it.
XMPP - My own XMPP instance with the domain name @tylerhoang.xyz. The server runs on Prosody, and is compliant with XMPP Specifications. Registration is disabled, so please contact me if you'd like an account on here.
IRC - My self-hosted IRC server running on UnrealIRCd. It's not very feature rich, but works pretty well if you just want to chat. Feel free to use it if you need a channel to chat with someone. Please connect with SSL/TLS on port 6697.
Lainsafe - My instance of Lainsafe, a fast and easy to use drag and drop file sharing site. If someone hosted abusive material on my site, please let me know ASAP so I can take appropriate action.
Invidious - An alternative open source front-end for YouTube.
Software & Equipment - A list of hardware and software that I personally use on my machine.
Music Recommendations - My personal list of all the music that I've listened to. I find new music to listen to all the time, and this list might not be up to date, but I'll try and update it somewhat often.
Movie List and Reviews - A list of movies that my friend Mark and I have watched together. After watching it we grade the movie on a scale of 0 to 3 Stars.
Personal Library - A collection of books that I've collected and my thoughts on them.
GPG Key - My public GPG key. I highly recommend that everyone use encryption whenever possible, and emails are no exception.
Resume - My resume. It's pretty barren right now because I don't have too much experience.
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XMPP: tyler@tylerhoang.xyz - My personal XMPP account hosted on my own XMPP server. If you do decide to message me this way, please use a client that supports OMEMO encryption and enable it before messaging me. I recommend using Gajim/Dino for Desktop, and Conversations for Android.
IRC: irc.tylerhoang.xyz/#chat - If you want to use IRC to chat to me, connect to my server and join "#chat." I may or may not be on.
Github - My Github, although there's basically nothing on it except for some outdated .config files and the source code for this site. I'm not a programmer or a scripter, so please don't ask me to help you with those sort of things.
