A personal reflection on the early days after COVID restrictions were lifted: empty streets, anxiety over infection, disrupted routines, family illness, shortages, expert forecasts, and the uneasy optimism of the post-pandemic beginning.
A structured guide to improving logical thinking through reasoning methods, problem analysis tools, communication frameworks, and critical thinking techniques.
A jQuery-based before-and-after image comparison effect that layers two photos and reveals one over the other as the mouse moves across the image.
A personal hands-on impression of the Philips SPK8404 mechanical keyboard with red switches, covering typing feel, noise level, layout, lighting effects, build quality, and value for money.
A reflective essay on childhood hardship, adult responsibility, quiet endurance, and the different burdens people carry as they grow through life.
A philosophical essay on free will, fatalism, cognitive limits, Nietzsche’s Übermensch, elitism, and the cost of every choice.
A personal catch-up covering a new side blog, recent projects, thoughts on the 360 vs. QQ conflict, and a brief moment when YouTube suddenly became accessible again.
A full English guide to all 13 Secret Realm dungeons in Go Go Muffin, with role-specific skill setups and boss mechanics for tank, DPS, and healer.
A first solo trip to Osaka unfolds through Kitahama, Umeda, Osaka Castle, Shinsekai, and Tsutenkaku—part travel diary, part reflection on history, architecture, and the feel of the city at night.
A playful, all-meow piece that leans fully into feline ambiguity, dramatic emphasis, and one perfectly placed image.
A practical guide to monitoring Kubernetes Ingress with Kube-Prometheus, including NGINX Ingress metrics exposure, ServiceMonitor setup, alert rules, Grafana dashboards, and key metric definitions.
To celebrate their first wedding anniversary, the couple launched a small postcard mailing event, sending 35 randomly selected Yunnan photo postcards to participants in China and abroad.
A realistic look at whether to start working or pursue a civil service post in another province, weighing stability, freedom, family ties, and the difficulty of the exam.
A personal reflection on 2022 covering work, career changes, coffee, blogging, camping, gaming, music, relationships, and the goals set for 2023.
A simple Hexo image management approach that creates a dedicated folder for each post inside source/images, plus a Typora setup to save images automatically to the right place.
A practical walkthrough for making a moving viewpoint GIF in GIMP with AnimStack, using the sampler tag, delay settings, and optional motion blur.
A practical look at Panda Eats Messages, an iPhone SMS spam filter that works offline, protects privacy, and costs just 3 RMB as a one-time purchase.
A simple way to enable or disable Windows Task Manager in Rust by modifying the DisableTaskmgr registry value under HKEY_CURRENT_USER.
An examination of the controversy over Dalian’s female mounted police, arguing that the debate was wrongly narrowed to horse-keeping costs while ignoring policing, tourism, ceremonial, and cultural value.
The official release of Moments adds RSS and ATOM subscriptions, friend-link APIs, logging, visibility controls, scheduled updates, and a more stable interface inspired by WeChat Moments.