A personal account of a 28-day, 7,439-kilometer motorcycle journey through seven provinces, including Sichuan, Tibet, Qinghai, and Gansu, along with the preparations and memories that brought the trip back to life.

An Alibaba Cloud ECS security warning was traced to a WordPress vulnerability. The issue can be addressed by backing up and editing the relevant http.php file, then running the cloud security verification again.

A hands-on account of installing OpenWrt and the LuCI SSR Plus plugin on the GL-MT1300, including compatibility details, installation steps, package conflicts, and the device’s frustrating long-term reliability.

Linus Torvalds rejects a blanket ban on AI-generated Linux code, arguing that open-source projects should judge patches by their quality and review them on the same technical standards as human-written code.

An account of building a fully open research project, from publicly announcing a mass-spectrometry concept to releasing data, code, reproducible figures, preprints, peer-review records, and real-time progress.

Learn how to use wxPython's wx.FileDialog to select a file, retrieve its path, and display basic file metadata in a desktop interface.

A practical guide to preconnect, DNS prefetch, preload, modulepreload, prefetch, and Worker-based fallbacks for loading large web assets without slowing initial rendering.

Turn an Obsidian start page into a live Dataview dashboard for daily notes, active tasks, recent files, tags, archive statistics, and upcoming birthdays.

Google’s Gemma 4 combines top-tier open-model performance with MoE efficiency: its 26B version activates only about 3.8B parameters, making powerful local AI practical on consumer hardware.

Use breadth-first search on remainders to find a non-zero multiple of n made entirely of the digits 0 and 1, with at most 100 digits.

A reflective essay inspired by a May Day trip to Chongqing, contrasting public performance, exhaustion, desire, and the freedom to choose another direction in life.

When old grievances become permanent leverage, arguments stop seeking resolution. The pleasure of repeated punishment can also turn an audience against the punisher.

A lively review of David Leitch’s Bullet Train, exploring its tangled assassin plot, elaborate foreshadowing, exaggerated anime-inspired style, visual craft, and slightly awkward use of East Asian influences.

A closer look at the history behind internal capitals in surnames such as MacDonald, McFarlane, FitzGerald, O’Connor, and Vanhoenacker—and what those spellings can reveal about identity, migration, and family history.

A personal December update about work pressure, passing the intermediate economist exam, a child’s TV program interview, floor heating in Guiyang, and the anxious wait for year-end performance results.

A reflective meditation on anxiety, solitude, freedom, balance, and the gray space between opposing forces.

Blog directories are becoming easier to build with AI-assisted programming, but their quality, focus, and long-term value vary widely. A look at SEO, editorial preference, and why bloggers should not worry too much about being accepted.

Learn how to climb more efficiently by staying seated, maintaining a sustainable cadence, managing body weight, and using FTP, power, and heart-rate data to control effort on long and steep ascents.

A practical guide to granting kubectl access to an Amazon EKS cluster, covering AWS CLI setup, IAM permissions, kubeconfig generation, aws-auth or EKS Access Entries, troubleshooting, and access verification.

MD5 + salt can work in many cases, but its speed is also its weakness. Bcrypt adds random salt, adjustable cost, and a slower hashing process that makes password cracking much harder.