The Wall Climber

The cover shows three people cleaning high-altitude windows at Hangzhou EFC. It felt like watching real-life superheroes “walking on walls”—a mix of awe and deep respect!

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.

Front-End Technology

FlutterWeb in Meituan Waimai: Practice and Insights
https://tech.meituan.com/2021/03/18/flutterweb-in-meituanwaimai.html
Learn how Meituan uses Flutter on the merchant side to ensure cross-platform consistency and boost iteration efficiency.

Designing a Universal Bundler Based on esbuild
https://juejin.cn/post/6940218189921910797
ByteDance’s frontend team built a new universal bundler on top of esbuild, solving many of their internal performance bottlenecks.

How QR Code Scanning Login Actually Works
https://juejin.cn/post/6940976355097985032
One of those “I think I know, but do I really?” topics explained simply.

Behind Safety: How Browsers Validate Certificates
https://cjting.me/2021/03/02/how-to-validate-tls-certificate/
A deep dive into how browsers handle HTTPS and SSL/TLS certificates.

Hidden Bar: Hide macOS Menu Bar Items
https://github.com/dwarvesf/hidden
An absolute essential for keeping a clean desktop. I use this every single day.

SwitchHosts: Quick Host Switching Tool
https://github.com/oldj/SwitchHosts
A classic and must-have developer tool for managing different network environments.

Netron: Visualizer for Neural Networks and Deep Learning Models
https://github.com/lutzroeder/netron
A beautiful tool for visualizing complex AI and machine learning models.

Just Looking Around

Monitoring iOS App Launch Time
https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/mxQpsenciOu9Qw9q-VTNyg
Launch time is a critical first impression for any app. This article explores how to monitor and optimize those crucial first seconds.

Swift Async/Await is Here
https://kemchenj.github.io/2021-03-06/
The Swift community is finally getting native async/await support—a massive win for developer productivity.

Introducing /dev/null in Linux
https://www.putorius.net/introduction-to-dev-null.html
A simple but powerful concept: the “black hole” device that discards everything written to it.

A Conversation on Management from the Outside at Tencent
https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/kpS8RExdWMvvq-ce8G7qUQ
Real management is about creating maximum value from limited resources—a principle that applies as much to life as it does to business.