161. Minimalist Lamp 中
The cover photo shows a black Xiaomi desk lamp I bought over the weekend. The metal texture is beautiful, and it’s perfect as a screen light.
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 Learning
My Open Source Growth Journey
https://tw93.fun/2024-01-12/open.html
I finally compiled the notes from my “Open Source Growth Journey” talk at GitHub Universe 2023 in Shanghai. I talk about my 9 years of open-source projects starting from university and my experiences in building successful open-source products.
Product Logic for Habit Formation
https://zcool.com.cn/work/ZNjczMDA1NzY=.html
A deep dive by interaction designer Hu Sanqi into the behavioral models that make products habit-forming, using both failed and successful real-world cases.
Trending Tools
cmd-wrapped: Your Yearly CLI Activity
https://github.com/YiNNx/cmd-wrapped
A creative CLI tool that generates a distribution of your command-line activity over the past year—like a Spotify Wrapped or GitHub contribution map for your terminal.
The AI Graveyard
https://dang.ai/ai-graveyard
Instead of just looking at new AI tools, it’s interesting to see which ones have failed. studying why a product “died” can help refine your own ideas.
Jan: Offline Desktop LLM
https://github.com/janhq/jan
An open-source ChatGPT alternative that runs entirely offline on your computer. I particularly like its clean UI design.
Just Looking Around
Elon Musk’s 2022 TED Interview
https://youtube.com/watch?v=cdZZpaB2kDM
A fascinating interview where Musk discusses Twitter, Tesla, and how his brain works. Worth a watch.
Douban’s 2023 Movie List
https://movie.douban.com/annual/2023/
A great place to find movies you might have missed last year. The section on filmmakers who passed away in 2023 is very touching.
How to Make Money in the Post-Information-Asymmetry Era
https://zhihu.com/question/268481226
An interesting Zhihu discussion from 2018 about how the ways of making money are changing as information becomes more accessible.