036. Peach Thin Crust Pizza 中
The thin-crust Parma ham pizza at Peach (Mitao) this weekend was incredible. The restaurant has a great atmosphere and is surprisingly good value—highly recommended.
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
Inside the Notion Editor
https://juejin.cn/post/6975786088006696990
Even if you find Notion a bit too complex for daily use, the engineering behind its block-based editor is fascinating and worth studying.
Generating Stroke Order Animations for Chinese Characters
https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/dhh5UVXPD9d9bD3JfYOU9w
A technical look at how to take any font file and dynamically generate the corresponding animated stroke sequence data.
Three Approaches to VR Property Viewing in the Browser
https://juejin.cn/post/6973865268426571784
A summary of the current landscape for building 360-degree interactive housing tours with frontend tech.
Intelligent Compute Allocation for Meituan Waimai Ads
https://tech.meituan.com/2021/06/17/waimai-ai-advertisement.html
Food delivery traffic peaks sharply during lunch and dinner. This article explores how Meituan dynamically allocates computational resources to ensure efficiency during these high-demand “twin peaks.”
Trending Open Source
XUAN-Bike: An Open-Source Self-Driving Bicycle
https://github.com/peng-zhihui/XUAN-Bike
Source code for the hard-core engineering project mentioned in the “Looking Around” section below.
NvChad: A Beautiful Neovim Configuration
https://github.com/siduck76/NvChad
An exceptionally polished configuration that turns Neovim into a modern development environment.
Chinese Poetry: The Ultimate Classical Poetry Database
https://github.com/chinese-poetry/chinese-poetry
A massive and well-structured data source. There are so many creative applications for this kind of classical content.
Prisma: Next-Generation Node.js ORM
https://github.com/prisma/prisma
If you’re starting a new Node.js project, Prisma is well worth considering for its type-safety and developer experience.
GoTTY: Share Your Terminal as a Web App
https://github.com/sorenisanerd/gotty
A simple way to broadcast a terminal session to anyone through a standard web browser.
Just Looking Around
The Self-Driving Bicycle: A Technical Masterpiece
https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1fV411x72a
A member of Huawei’s “Genius Youth” program built a bicycle that can balance itself and navigate autonomously. Hard-core engineering at its absolute best.
Apple Announces the 2021 Design Award Winners
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2021/06/apple-announces-winners-of-the-2021-apple-design-awards/
Recognizing excellence across six categories, from inclusivity and innovation to social impact. a great reference for what defines a “best-in-class” app.
Industry Insights: The State of Tourism in 2021
A collection of reports and articles on how the travel industry is evolving post-pandemic, from the rise of platform-based OTAs to the major shifts in consumer behavior.