My Grandmother, and the Home She Held Together
A personal remembrance of a grandmother born in rural Henan in 1932: her hardships, frugality, quiet love, and the family she spent her life holding together.
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How Product Managers Should Keep Learning Without Getting Lost
Practical learning advice for product managers, including how to ask better questions, search for information, study open-source products, set learning tasks, and progress from feature implementation to product planning.
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A personal reflection on AI-assisted writing, wearable devices, sleep tracking, streaks, vanity metrics, and the uneasy feeling that self-quantification can become self-surveillance.
Read ArticleEdgar Snow’s Journey into the Red Heart of China
A natural English rewrite introducing Edgar Snow’s Red Star Over China, its historical significance, and a translated excerpt from Snow’s farewell to Bao’an.
Read ArticleBuilding a Vue Music Search, Preview, and Download Feature
A practical record of building a Vue-based music search, preview, and download feature using vue-cli, mint-ui, vue-aplayer, a search API, and the HTML5 download attribute.
Read ArticleSetting Up Kamailio to Observe SIP Signaling on a Local Network
A practical walkthrough for setting up Kamailio as a SIP server on a local network, configuring SQLite support, registering clients, testing calls, and observing SIP signaling with packet capture.
Read ArticleLong Negotiations With the Body
A personal essay on living with three chronic burdens after the pandemic: eczema, recurring back pain, and the uncertainty of U.S. immigration status.
Read ArticleThe First Contract After a Long Bad Year
A personal account of a difficult year, a first small contract after registering a company, and the fragile sense of hope that follows a long stretch of uncertainty.
Read ArticleAboard the Same Boat
A reflective essay moving from collective-era farm work in southern Fujian to modern company life, centered on the saying that everyone aboard the same boat shares its fate.
Read ArticleWhy DNS Source IP Changes Matter for CDN Routing
DNS source IP addresses change during recursive and iterative queries, and that difference affects how CDN providers choose nodes. This article explains the impact of resolver location, domestic versus overseas DNS choices, and CNAME flattening on CDN rou
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