# 39. Red Slogans > Taken at Hongshan Park in Urumqi. The sunlight was perfect, and the red characters were incredibly crisp. For an engineer, what is your “Original Aspiration”? - Issue: 39 - Published: 2021/08/17 - HTML: https://weekly.tw93.fun/en/posts/39 - JSON: https://weekly.tw93.fun/api/en/posts/39.json - Chinese original: https://weekly.tw93.fun/posts/39.md --- Taken at Hongshan Park in Urumqi. The sunlight was perfect, and the red characters were incredibly crisp. For an engineer, what is your "Original Aspiration"? > **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 **Comprehensive Roundup of Essential Linux Commands** A very solid summary. I personally practiced through these to sharpen my memory—it's incredibly useful for Mac terminal users, too (though maybe don't try the shutdown commands). **Leveraging Machine Learning for Smart Web Pre-fetching** A very "trendy" approach to performance: using ML to predict which pages a user will visit next and pre-loading them at just the right time. **How to Design a Task Scheduler from Scratch** Starting from real business needs, this article breaks down the role of a scheduler, defines the key interfaces, and provides a clean implementation. **Deep Dive Into Modern Browsers** The final entry in a great series. You can find links to the previous deeper technical dives at the bottom of the article. **Making List Markers Meaningful with CSS ::marker** As we spend more time in JS frameworks, we often forget the small but delightful possibilities of modern CSS. ## Trending Open Source **DoraemonKit: A Platform for Full-Lifecycle App R&D** The marketing name is a bit vague, but essentially it’s a powerful "Swiss Army knife" overlay for debugging and testing apps on the fly. **petite-vue: A 5kb Subset of Vue for Progressive Enhancement** A very trendy move by Evan You—perfect for small projects where you want the "one-man army" speed of jQuery but with modern reactivity. ```html
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