170. Hangzhou Spring 中
The cover photo was taken over the weekend in my residential area. Hangzhou’s spring is beautiful, but it’s quite short—it feels like winter just a month ago and it’ll be short-sleeve weather next month. the current temperature is lovely, so it’s best to get out and enjoy it before the May heat sets in.
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
Modern C++ Tutorial
https://learnmoderncpp.com/
A great introductory course for self-learning modern C++. updated as recently as January 2024.
Web Development History
https://webdevelopmenthistory.com/index/
For those interested in the web’s past, this site feels like walking through a digital museum of “antiques”—even though most of it is only ~30 years old.
Trending Tools
Morse Code Learning Tool
https://www.perry.qa/morse
Want to learn Morse code? this tool makes it fun to learn the system of dots and dashes used for communication. it feels straight out of a spy movie.
Awesome Front-end Mini-interactions
https://drams.framer.website/
This site showcases beautiful physical-style UI effects (like buttons and toggles) with cute sound effects. Perfect for inspiration on fun web micro-interactions.
Hacker News Daily Top 10
https://www.daemonology.net/hn-daily/
If you like Hacker News but don’t want to browse everything, this site aggregates the top 10 most popular posts of the day. Saves a lot of time.
Just Looking Around
Sam Altman’s Playbook for Startups
https://jxp73q7qjsg.feishu.cn/docx/WCNZdKDa4o2eUrxK5ElcfBXEnah
A must-read. Success is built on a great idea, team, product, and execution. most people try to skip the execution part, but that’s where the hard work happens.
Selected Insights from the Playbook:
- Product: Your primary goal is to make something people love. Successful companies ALWAYS start with this.
- Team: A great team is the foundation. Founders need grit, toughness, and resourcefulness. choose co-founders carefully—it’s your most important decision.
- Development: focus on real user needs. stay simple and easy to use.
- Execution: keeping growth is the key. as CEO, focus on the vision and strategy, and hire people based on talent over just experience.
- Growth: it’s the solution to all problems. focus on retention and revenue, not vanity metrics.
- Competitors: focus on your internal problems. Most startups die from self-inflicted wounds, not competition.
- Profitability: find a way for people to pay for your value. focus on unit economics and LTV.