Jesus Loves You

The cover photo shows a “Jesus Loves You” stone at the entrance of a church near Fenghuangshan Park in Yuhang. While I’m not religious, it’s quite beautiful. The mountain road is also a perfect spot for a breezy ride on an electric scooter.

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

How to Ruin a Team with “R&D Efficiency”
https://www.infoq.cn/article/pY8BxcXYXlZjBoB6R6Lc
Spotted this on my social feed recently—hilariously true and bitingly accurate.

3D Performance: Compressing glTF Files
https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/6ANznfxUovdy4qdKo16rpw
A guide on choosing 3D model formats, optimizing files, and handling device compatibility in modern web environments.

Stack Overflow 2021 Developer Survey Highlights
https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/E6R3dXGBa4YzzuekxPMgOw
Rust remains the most loved language for the 6th year in a row, and Svelte has surprisingly become the most loved web framework.

Deep Dive into Source Code of Popular Tech Frameworks
https://github.com/doocs/source-code-hunter
A “source code hunter” series focusing on major industry frameworks. While biased towards Java, it’s an excellent bridge for frontend developers looking to understand the backend world.

Chrome Address Bar Commands and Shortcuts
https://juejin.cn/post/6999126516852490253
A collection of “hidden” address bar commands that can significantly speed up your debugging workflow.

pika: Open Source Mac Color Picker
https://github.com/superhighfives/pika
A very clean and quick way to grab hex codes directly from your screen.

Real-Time Chinese Voice Cloning
https://github.com/babysor/Realtime-Voice-Clone-Chinese
Truly impressive—clone your voice within 5 seconds and generate any speech content you like.

tempura: A Lightweight and “Delicious” Template Engine 🍤
https://github.com/lukeed/tempura
Using a tempura emoji in a dev project is such a vibe. the syntax is clean and very intuitive.

{{#if count == 0}}
<p>You're done! 🎉</p>
{{#else}}
<p>You have {{{ count }}} {{{ suffix }}} remaining!</p>
{{/if}}

Just Looking Around

“Black Myth: Wukong” Gameplay is Viral, But I’m Slightly Worried
https://www.huxiu.com/article/450124.html
The visuals are mind-blowing, but can the final game live up to this level of hype?

Low-Resource Learning and Applications at Meituan
https://tech.meituan.com/2021/08/19/low-resource-learning.html
How Meituan trains effective models even when data for a specific business scenario is scarce.

Discussion: The One Book That Impacted Your Thinking the Most
https://www.v2ex.com/t/796289?p=1
Some solid recommendations here, from “The Pragmatic Programmer” to deep dives into history and philosophy.

Hand-Writing Your Own Compiler
https://pandolia.net/tinyc/index.html
A great guide to building a very simple “TinyC” compiler to understand the fundamental mechanics of translating source code into executable programs.