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About me

A few personal details for anyone curious about where I come from, what I enjoy, and why I keep sharing the things I learn.

Nguyễn Thành Nhân

“Information wants to be free.”
Stewart Brand

Stewart Brand created the Whole Earth Catalog, a counterculture publication in the late 1960s that put tools, books, and ideas into the hands of people who wanted to learn and make things themselves. He was also involved with The WELL, the Long Now Foundation, and the early culture of personal computing.

Brand said this at the first Hackers Conference in the autumn of 1984, a gathering of the early hacker community around software, personal computers, and the ethics of sharing. A transcript later appeared in the May 1985 issue of Whole Earth Review, the magazine that carried on the spirit of the Whole Earth Catalog. The full idea was not simply that everything should cost nothing. Brand was describing two forces pulling in opposite directions. Information can be valuable, so the people who create it want to be paid. At the same time, technology keeps making it cheaper to copy, transmit, and transform information, which makes wider circulation easier.

I am drawn to the second half because I believe knowledge should be shared instead of being locked behind obfuscation, encryption, patents, or copyright barriers. To me, a more progressive society is one where useful things are open, free to access, and less constrained by censorship. I know the world is rarely that ideal, but it remains something I want to work toward. My GitHub repositories are one small way I can act on that ideal.

A little about me.

This site is where I keep writing, projects, milestones, and the things I learned while going from Minecraft into code.

Personal details

The basics.

Name: Nguyễn Thành Nhân
Born: 02.08.2005
Place: Ho Chi Minh City.
Contact: itsnhanaz@gmail.com

Other notes

How I got here.

Minecraft is the clearest starting point. Around 2015, I watched, downloaded, and played Minecraft Pocket Edition, then wandered into servers, plugins, PocketMine-MP, ports, backups, console errors, and config files that looked small but could still eat an entire night.

PocketMine-MP is more than just a Minecraft footnote to me. It is where I learned to read errors, edit code, translate plugins, preserve old resources, and slowly realized that Information Technology was the path I wanted. In 2019, I started the PocketMine-MP Vietnam group. It is not huge, but it is still there for people who remember or still need a corner for Bedrock servers.

I also keep hundreds of repositories and quite a few GitHub organizations. Some repos are tiny experiments, some are archives, some are open for others to use, and some simply remind me that something once existed. If you want the longer version, I’ve gathered that part in the GitHub corner ↗.

My Discord is NhanAZ if you want to message me directly. If you are in Vietnam, you can use zalo.me/thanhnhanaz ↗, where I usually reply fastest. For something more private, Telegram ↗ works too.

Questions I keep coming back to

I ask “why”, then make everything more complicated.

I am drawn to things like philosophy, ethics, the meaning of life, free will, time, quantum physics, black holes, UFOs, and whatever might exist beyond Earth. Not every question has a neat answer, but they keep me reading, looking, testing, and asking again.

Questions slightly too large for one lifetime ↗ is where I keep the longer version.

One small note

Everything here is information I chose to make public. If you have seen some of it on GitHub, in the Minecraft community, or elsewhere online, that is perfectly normal. I gathered it here so it has a little more context, not to turn my private life into a treasure hunt. :]