Translated from the Chinese original. In college I had a WordPress site hosted on Alibaba Cloud, where I kept my old posts. At a little over a hundred yuan a year, the price was acceptable. But after graduation, I had less and less energy for tinkering, and I couldn’t even publish a handful of posts a year. On top of that, the renewal price shot up to around 1,300 yuan. Thinking about that return on investment, I decided to shut the old site down. ...
Translated from the Chinese original. Introduction A few days ago, a few months ago, I came across Automatic Bookkeeping with Qianji and Tasker via Notifications - Sspai, which reminded me of Tasker, which I had bought long ago and then forgotten in a corner… I could relate. Since automated bookkeeping really clicked with me, I used it as a starting point to begin tinkering with Tasker automation. After a few weeks of tinkering, hanging around various forums, and modding setups from all kinds of articles, here is what I have working so far: ...
Translated from the Chinese original. The other day, while browsing Zhihu, I came across this question: “After buying a new laptop, what basic settings and downloads do I need?” It reminded me of the bitter journey I went through, feeling my way from a computer novice and battling all sorts of rogue software. So I wanted to share the pitfalls and experience from that process, to help everyone use Win10 more efficiently. Many topics couldn’t be covered in depth because of space, but once I started writing, it still grew past 15,000 characters… ...
Translated from the Chinese original. A Beginner’s Guide to File Management on iPad OS Note: in what follows, iOS and iPad OS are not distinguished. This article is mainly for people who frequently need to transfer or sync files between a computer and an iPhone or iPad. It’s aimed mostly at Windows users, though Mac users may find it useful too. Before I got my iPad, what worried me most was iOS’s file management capabilities. But after tinkering with it for a while, I found that the problem can actually be handled reasonably well with a variety of approaches. ...
Translated from the Chinese original. Bilibili? Why & How? Around the second half of 2019, news about Bilibili (B 站) started showing up frequently in my information sources. The Bilibili uploader “Dulijun” (独立菌) brought Cao Da (曹大) thousands of followers Banfo Xianren (半佛仙人) and Wizard Economics (巫师经济学) rose rapidly on Bilibili Video Wars 2019 Some friends around me spend several hours a day watching Bilibili videos I had registered an account long before, but I had always treated Bilibili as an anime community and rarely opened it. When I finally took a proper look, I realized how large its content pool had become: besides animation, it covers technology, lifestyle, fashion, entertainment, advertising… I genuinely learn a lot on Bilibili. ...
Translated from the Chinese original. 1 A Bit of Rambling When I was composing my 2019 summary in my head, I had a whole lot I wanted to say, but once it came time to actually write it down, I didn’t know where to begin. Fine, let me start with my WeChat official account. I’m sorry that it basically went without updates for the last few months of 2019. There are really just two reasons. First, I was genuinely busy: a lot of things piled up in the second half of the year, and I couldn’t find the time to write. Second, naturally, I was lazy. Turning text and images into an official-account post still puts a certain amount of psychological pressure on me. ...
Translated from the Chinese original. The Approach Compared with textbooks, which are mostly PDFs from relatively fixed sources, general books are far more varied in both format and source. But no single site carries every kind of book, so looking for a general book really means switching between multiple sites and searching until you find the target book as quickly as possible. The factors that affect the speed of finding a book come down to two: ...
Translated from the Chinese original. WeChat recently released its 2018 data report. The report states that as of September 2018, WeChat had 1.082 billion monthly active users. Although the open rate of WeChat Official Accounts has been falling in recent years, it is undeniable that WeChat’s enormous user base means the vast majority of content producers cannot abandon this channel. According to the “2017 WeChat Economy Data Report” and “2017 WeChat User Research and Business Opportunity Insights”, by the end of 2017 there were more than 10 million WeChat Official Accounts, of which 3.5 million were active accounts, up 14% from 2016, with 797 million monthly active followers. ...
Translated from the Chinese original. Sina Weibo’s image-hosting service recently began rolling out hotlink protection, so many blog images that relied on it can no longer be displayed. This article shares some lessons from migrating image hosts and choosing new tools. I hope it helps. 1 Migration 1.1 One-click migration to Alibaba Cloud OSS 1.2 Replacing links in the database 1.3 Batch-saving Weibo-hosted images to your server (WordPress) 1.4 Batch-saving Weibo-hosted images to your computer Video tutorial ...
Translated from the Chinese original. The long-awaited second installment of my “Mastering PDFs series” is finally here (forgive me, I’ve been really busy lately and took this long to publish). Last time we talked about how to find Chinese textbooks, and launched the “E-Textbook Project”. The response has been good, but the save rate is far higher than the share rate… don’t you know good things are worth sharing? 🙄🙄🙄 Alright, back to the topic. Chinese textbooks can already meet most people’s needs, and they’re relatively easy to read. But in some subjects, once you’ve read an English textbook and then compare it with a domestic one, the gap is still obvious. Setting aside translation and the like, domestic and foreign textbooks differ considerably in logical structure, guiding philosophy, and readability. ...