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DevelopmentOpen SourceTypeScriptUI Components

Forge Dialog: dialogs built on the native <dialog> element, with no z-index left to hunt

An admin page needs to ask "are you sure you want to delete this?". The browser's built-in confirm can do it, but it freezes the whole page and cannot be styled; the usual replacements drag in a framework. Forge Dialog is how we solved that for our own products: no runtime dependencies, built on the native dialog element, with React, Vue and Svelte adapters inside the same package.

02/09/20269 min read

DevelopmentAccessibilityWCAGCompliance

Accessibility for business websites: why 83.9% of home pages still fail the easiest criterion

The WebAIM Million 2026 report found low-contrast text on 83.9% of home pages — the single easiest WCAG criterion to check by machine — and the six most common failures haven't changed in seven years. This isn't a knowledge problem. It's a measurement problem.

27/07/20269 min read

DevelopmentHealthcarehóa đơn điện tửBệnh án điện tử

Technology solutions for private clinics and doctors: from e-invoicing to electronic medical records

Within an 18-month window, Vietnam's private clinics and independent doctors face three new compliance obligations at once: e-invoicing under Decree 70/2025, the end of presumptive tax from Jan 1, 2026, and a Dec 31, 2026 deadline for electronic medical records under Circular 13/2025/TT-BYT — while most still run on paper logs, Excel, and Zalo. The minimal-footprint architecture we propose, and why a scaled-down hospital system isn't the answer.

22/07/20268 min read

DevelopmentSystem IntegrationData SilosLegacy Modernization

Why digital transformation leads to 5-6 disconnected systems and data duplicated everywhere

Many companies and government agencies don't lack technology — they have too many systems. After a few years of piecemeal digital transformation, an organization typically ends up running 5-6 systems that don't talk to each other, with the same customer or employee existing under several different data versions. This post breaks down why that happens and the consolidation architecture KonexForge applies to fix it — not by buying a seventh system.

19/07/20267 min read

DevelopmentOpen SourceTypeScriptUI Components

Forge Select: a zero-dependency, framework-agnostic open-source replacement for Select2

Select2 has served the web community for years, but it's built on jQuery — a dependency that's increasingly hard to justify on a modern stack. Forge Select is the select/combobox component we built ourselves: a 5-file core, zero runtime dependencies, yet full-featured enough for real products — virtual scroll, tree select, tags, and full accessibility.

14/07/20267 min read

DevelopmentSMEERPAI Copilot

ERP Ecosystem One: a unified platform for small businesses and one-person companies in the AI era

AI now lets one person do work that used to require a whole team — but it also leaves that person juggling 8-10 disconnected SaaS tools: accounting, CRM, inventory, e-invoicing. ERP Ecosystem One is KonexForge's answer — a unified platform designed from the ground up for a team of one, not a scaled-down enterprise ERP.

09/07/20268 min read

DevelopmentOpen SourceVS CodeDeveloper Tools

KonexForge Themes: a VS Code theme family with a 'forge' aesthetic — not another One Dark clone

Engineers stare at their editor all day, yet the VS Code theme market is saturated with variants that look nearly identical to One Dark Pro. KonexForge Themes is the open-source set of 4 themes we built ourselves — not to sell, but because a distinct visual identity is part of engineering culture too.

07/07/20266 min read

DevelopmentE-InvoicingHousehold BusinessPOS

E-invoicing for micro household businesses: what works for a banh mi cart or a street noodle vendor?

From January 1, 2026, Vietnam's flat-rate presumptive tax for household businesses is fully abolished — every household business, down to a single street food cart, must now self-declare based on actual revenue. But the e-invoicing solution built for restaurants or taxi fleets can't be dropped straight onto a vendor who's cooking and making change with the same two hands. Three real-world constraints and the lean, low-cost architecture we propose.

02/07/20267 min read

DevelopmentOpen SourceWYSIWYGTypeScript

Autumn Note: why we built our own zero-dependency, open-source rich-text editor

Most internal systems — CMS, admin portals, knowledge bases — need a formatted text editor somewhere. Instead of pulling in jQuery or a heavy commercial library, we built Autumn Note: a vanilla ES2022 WYSIWYG editor, zero dependencies, MIT-licensed and open source.

29/06/20267 min read

DevelopmentIoTe-invoiceFintech

Per-trip e-invoicing for taxi fleets: a real-time system architecture

Vietnam's Circular 32/2025/TT-BTC requires electronic invoices to be issued at the exact moment a trip ends. This article breaks down three real technical challenges and the event-driven architecture that solves them — from mechanical taximeters to digital signing and automated reconciliation.

26/06/20268 min read

DevelopmentGitOpsArgo CDCI/CDMLOps

GitOps and CI/CD for ML pipelines: from notebook experiment to production deployment with Argo CD

ML pipelines have a different development lifecycle from traditional software: code changes less frequently, models and data change more. Applying software GitOps directly to ML without adjustment typically produces pipelines that are heavy, slow, and hard to debug. How to design CI/CD for ML with Argo CD: decouple model artifacts from code deployments, trigger pipelines when a new model finishes training, and roll back automatically when metrics degrade.

22/06/20269 min read

DevelopmentCybersecurityAI SecurityZero Trust

Security in the age of AI: new risks and zero-trust principles for production systems

AI agents and LLMs integrated into production systems open up a new attack surface — prompt injection, data poisoning, deepfakes — adding to, not replacing, traditional security risks. Zero-trust principles, secure SDLC, and a practical checklist for protecting AI-enabled systems.

14/06/20267 min read

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