Liangzhu Hiking

The cover photo was taken over the weekend while hiking in Liangzhu Park. It shows a scene simulating how ancient people built houses at the site, which looked quite beautiful with the blue sky.

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.

Posting: An interesting terminal API testing tool
https://github.com/darrenburns/posting
Found Charging on GitHub—a terminal-based API testing tool similar to Postman or Insomnia. Implementing this in the command line is indeed fun and convenient, and I love the color theme.

Better Auth: Authentication functionality
https://www.better-auth.com/
If your site needs authentication, try Better Auth. It’s comprehensive, modern, and much simpler to use than earlier generations of authentication frameworks. The code aesthetics are also great.

React Email: Open-source email templates
https://react.email/
If your website needs to send emails, try React Email for building templates. It has rich features, is simple to use, and results in modern-looking emails like the ones you often receive from abroad.

Internationalization Design Guide
https://www.tonpixel.cn/blog/%E5%9B%BD%E9%99%85%E5%8C%96%E8%AE%BE%E8%AE%A1%E6%8C%87%E5%8D%97
Ton Pixel’s “Internationalization Design Guide” is worth a look. It covers points to note when doing multi-language and localization development across different scenarios—a very comprehensive checklist.

Just Looking Around

Guide to Quality of Life in Colleges
https://colleges.chat/
This guide is well-organized, aiming to collect detailed information about universities worldwide that isn’t explicitly mentioned in recruitment materials but significantly impacts quality of life. Using this with an LLM could be very helpful for graduates choosing a university.

Carpe Diem: A Post from V2EX
https://v2ex.com/t/1115174
Saw a post on V2EX—not that I’m interested in the Mini itself, but the reply “Buy it; it’s rare to find something that moves you” really touched me. I want to slowly maintain this mindset: if something is needed and it moves me, and I can afford it, then I’ll buy it. The older I get, the more I feel things shouldn’t be left for “later,” because the feeling won’t be the same once you’re old.

The best recipe for “Sautéed Pork with Peppers”
Found the best recipe for sautéed pork with peppers! Friends should try it. This Jiangxi Pingxiang style has that exquisite taste I remember from childhood—very different from Changsha style and perfect with rice.

You can never get rich by renting out your time
Rereading “The Almanack of Naval Ravikant” lately. It’s a book that feels new every time, perfect for when you’re stuck on certain thoughts.