129. Cat Sunbathing
The cover photo shows a clean white cat sunbathing in the emerald grass at Jiuxi Smoke Tree Park. It was so peaceful and completely unfazed by people. Just lovely.
Record the down-to-earth trending technologies seen every week, and publish them here after screening. If you find it good, you can follow this weekly to get update notifications.
Technical Related
This Blog is Hosted on my Android Phone
https://androidblog.a.pinggy.io/
A developer used an 180$ Android phone to host his blog using the Termux terminal emulator and Node.js. A fun experimental setup for anyone with an old phone lying around.
Bun Bundler: 220x Faster than Webpack?
https://bun.sh/blog/bun-bundler
The official blog post introducing Bun’s new bundler. Is it truly as revolutionary as they claim? Give it a spin and see for yourself.
Remembering “Left Ear Mouse” (Chen Hao)
https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/bOnW8gDJ-dXp4KbAjhDw9A
A transcript of one of Haozi Shu’s last live streams, where he shared his dreams, his entrepreneurial journey, and what he wanted to achieve in his life. Resting in peace.
Trending Tools
ChatGPT Web Browsing Experience
🎉 Many ChatGPT Plus users have probably just received the Web Browsing beta, which you can turn on in Settings. It is like turning your ChatGPT into a bot that can go online, which sidesteps the old problem of stale data.
🔮 I tried it: asking for yesterday’s top ten US stock gainers, yesterday’s price of a specific stock, the latest news from Twitter, today’s top ten GitHub projects and so on, and the data it gave back was basically all correct. Compared with the plugins from a few days ago, this feature gives ChatGPT wings. In the video I also clicked open its detailed steps so you can see the process.
🧐 Overall, though, many websites block crawling in their robots.txt, many Chinese sites for example. It tries a few times and, if that fails, apologizes and says it cannot find it. It is also fairly slow for now, since it has to find the link, open it and analyze the data, even slower than plugins, but it is fun to play with and dig into new features.
🤖 Thinking one step further, this is really a new way for AI to interact with today’s web. Maybe when building pages we will need to consider the case where the User-Agent is ChatGPT-User, so AI can understand our pages better, which is quite novel.
Zeabur: A Refined Deployment Platform
https://zeabur.com
Zeabur is a beautiful deployment platform that automates the deployment strategy based on your code. Unlike Vercel, it’s just as good at handling backend services (Java, Python) and databases as it is with frontend projects.
Veloren: A Multiplayer Voxel RPG Written in Rust
https://veloren.net/
Inspired by Zelda: Breath of the Wild and Minecraft, Veloren is an open-source voxel RPG with a massive community of developers and artists building it together in Rust.
Animated Drawings for Kids
https://github.com/facebookresearch/AnimatedDrawings
An open-source algorithm from Meta that turns children’s character drawings into animations. It’s easy to deploy and a wonderful creative tool if you have kids.
Just Looking Around
My Full SMILE Eye Surgery Experience
https://tw93.fun/2023-05-17/eyes.html
I recently had the Full SMILE laser eye surgery. Here’s a record of the procedure and the recovery process for anyone curious about it.
How to Think in English (Without Translating)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJOnhWiJArM
Many learners get stuck in a “translation loop.” This video from Rachel’s English offers six practical strategies for direct thinking in English—a vital skill for fluency.
Minesweeper World Rankings
https://minesweepergame.com/world-rankings.php
I stumbled upon the world rankings for Minesweeper. It’s incredible how fast some players are—many of the top spots are held by Chinese players!
