241. Passing Through Changsha 中
The cover image shows a station photo taken while riding the Maglev from the airport in Changsha. The two characters for “Changsha” are very evocative. As soon as I returned to Changsha, I could smell the scent of betel nut.
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Trending Tools
🎉 MiaoYan: A Markdown note-taking app more suitable for engineers
https://github.com/tw93/MiaoYan
MiaoYan, a simple and easy-to-use Markdown note app, recently updated to V2.1. It features enhanced PPT presentation mode, Tab quick input, automatic TOC generation, and optimized chart styles for Mermaid, Markmap, PlantUML, etc. This video introduces the way to write PPTs with Markdown—perfect for those who like to take shortcuts. Other features are welcome to be explored.
🎉 Mole: Dig deep like a mole to clean your Mac
https://github.com/tw93/Mole
Mole has updated again! The cleanup section adds more safe operations and multi-threaded acceleration. This time, I’m introducing another feature of 🐹: the very thorough software uninstallation function. Besides uninstalling the App itself, it deeply searches for nearly dozens of possible deletions of App files/caches/settings. It’s even cleaner than the App Cleaner & Uninstaller I purchased before. On the small command line, a friend helped add search and sorting, which is very useful. Give it a try.
“Shitcode” Detector is quite interesting
https://github.com/Done-0/fuck-u-code
This command-line tool is quite interesting. The name is a bit crude, called “Shit Mountain Code Detector.” it evaluates the “shit-mountain level” of code and outputs a beautiful report. I tried it on my own project, and it was “refreshing, as if the code had been kissed by an angel.” Not bad at all.
AirBattery: Get all your devices’ battery info on Mac
https://lihaoyun6.github.io/airbattery/
The author of QuickRecorder has released a small tool called AirBattery. It allows you to get battery information for all your devices on Mac and display it on the Dock, status bar, or as widgets. Interested friends can give it a try.
A collection of excellent tools related to Platform Engineering
https://seifrajhi.github.io/awesome-platform-engineering-tools/
An open-source collection of excellent tools and best practices related to platform engineering. It lists corresponding tools, specifications, reference architectures, and learning materials by category across source control, CI/CD, deployment, monitoring, security, internal developer portals, and more, helping engineering teams systematically build, manage, and evolve internal platforms.
Repomix: Package your codebase into an AI-friendly file
https://repomix.com/
Repomix is a great tool that can package your entire codebase into an AI-friendly file. This is perfect when you need to provide your codebase to LLMs or other AI tools like Claude, ChatGPT, or Gemini.
Just Looking Around
Discussion on Hacker News about the next stage for engineers
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43378321
The discussion on Hacker News is very similar to a view I had before. In the current development, engineers should actually progress to the next stage. Previously, many programmers could thrive on LeetCode, frameworks, and titles. Now, it’s more about engineers who can solve problems; those who can help the company make money and with delivery will last longer.
Just Saying
Rewatching Ready Player One, the phrase at the very end is especially important in today’s AI-filled world: we all need to spend more time in reality, because reality is the only thing that’s real. Text without thought isn’t, images that look like real people aren’t, and fake videos that look like reality aren’t either.
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