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A northwest Chengdu trip through missed tickets, scenic buses, Anlan Bridge, Feishayan, Baopingkou, Guanxian Ancient City, and sleepless Mount Qingcheng.
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2026
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Design notes on Hexo i18n — filename conventions for language detection, a permalink filter for path-prefix routing, per-language generators, hreflang, and a language switcher.
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How this site is made: writing workflow, design principles, typography and color, and the build-and-deploy stack.
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Notes from an afternoon at the Chengdu Botanical Garden, right after my mid-term defense on April 1st.
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Post-100% musings: Latin naming easter eggs, character writing, and music picks
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An excellent natural history museum with rich dinosaur fossils and mammal specimens, thoughtful exhibit design and animal mounts — well worth a visit.
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Standing alone and prominent above all other hills, with a circumference of over twenty li at its base, overlooking the great sea
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Adding interactive TUI components to shell scripts with Gum, and caveats when using it in Nushell.
Winter
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Dazhu Mountain lies 120 li south of the county seat. The *Qi Cheng* records: a famous mountain by the sea. Sheer and craggy, ten thousand fathoms high, its presence overwhelms the surrounding peaks. At its foot, rocks split open to form a gate; there is Stone Gate Temple, and beside it a spring gushing forth like pearls and jade, called Jade Spring, hence the mountain is also known as Jade Spring Mountain. Beside the spring lies a Reclining Elephant Rock; to the east are Lion Peak and Bell Peak, both strikingly lifelike. About two li south, there is Flying Rock; ascending tier by tier leads to the South Heaven Gate. Past Iron Plate Bridge, there is a stone chamber also called Hemp Garment Hermitage, and further Zhu Zhao Hermitage, Black Dragon Pool, Imperial Altar, Ksitigarbha Shrine, and Jade Palace immortal traces too numerous to mention — truly a wonder of the region.
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Markdown plugins are overkill for simple interactive components. Custom elements give you interactivity without the development friction.
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Developers often face repetitive coding patterns, ranging from standard if/for structures to Go's error handling or HTML boilerplates. This redundancy is inefficient and error-prone. Snippets offer the optimal solution. When you type a short prefix (e.g., if, for), your IDE suggests a completion item that can be expanded into a predefined code template.
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Consolidate scattered project commands into a single justfile. Learn how Just simplifies multi-language development workflows with better reusability & documentation.
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A deep dive into LQIP, BlurHash, ThumbHash, and other progressive image loading strategies for the web.
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Learn how to fix clickable hyperlinks not working when using tmux in the Ghostty terminal emulator.
2025
Autumn
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Encapsulating cross-platform functions and isolating OS-specific configs using Nushell.
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Tmux Popup Display/Menu & Floax Plugin
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Batch-compressing media files with Nushell to free up OneDrive space.
Summer
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A deep dive into inline editing in the terminal — configuring Vi and Emacs keybindings and using an external line editor to speed up your workflow.
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A cross-shell fuzzy finder that replaces manual file navigation with intelligent shortcuts. Here's how it works and why it might replace your current setup.
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Notes from an evening stroll at Jinji Lake on July 1st
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After picking up lychees, an afternoon photo walk through the Lingering Garden
Spring
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May 18th
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Thus I observe the measure of contentment, forsaking ambitions like drifting clouds, building a house and planting trees, free and self-possessed. The ponds suffice for fishing, the harvested grain for farming. Watering the garden and selling vegetables provides for daily meals; tending sheep and brewing cheese awaits the seasons' needs. Filial in devotion, brotherly in bonds — this too is the governance of the unskilled.
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Visiting Tiger Hill on May 2nd
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Ubuntu 18.04's glibc is too old for newer VS Code Remote SSH Server and some Node.js binaries. Run the dev environment in Docker and SSH into it.
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A practical guide to installing VS Code extensions offline: downloading VSIX files through the official API, installing language packs, handling SSH remote development, and choosing platform-specific packages.
2024
Autumn
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From cookies to JWT: how the web works around HTTP's statelessness, and the trade-offs each step inherits.
Winter
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Java is neither pure pass-by-value nor pass-by-reference. The answer hides in a term most discussions miss: call-by-sharing.
2023
Autumn
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Preview the custom Markdown components used by this blog theme, with usage notes and source examples.
Summer
01Tracking the changes of this blog theme