053. Xpeng Flying Car 中
The Xpeng flying car on display at Intime City. Currently, it seems to fly for about 30 minutes on a single charge. Very futuristic—can’t wait for mass production.
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
The Revolutionizing Open Proxy Service for Web R&D
https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/I0AFiy4lPU7Owj-vB9Km_Q
Best practices from the Fliggy team on managing engineering-side debugging and proxies.
Understanding the JavaScript Sandbox
https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/euHJpS6rcRRqVBIPAnbUHA
An introduction from the ELab team on how browsers isolate code to ensure security and stability.
Flutter Desktop vs. Electron Performance on macOS
https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/uTHi8SfCvXJfbie1A1YNVA
A detailed performance comparison between these two popular cross-platform desktop technologies.
Idle Detection API: Knowing When Your User is Away
https://web.dev/idle-detection/
Learn how to detect when a user is inactive, the screen is locked, or they’ve moved to another display—useful for status updates or power saving.
Exploring the Depths of WKWebView
https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/l9D4V0ON3uJ0HfsJ7bpJiQ
An essential read for frontend developers working on hybrid mobile apps to understand the nuances of the iOS web view.
Trending Open Source
spy-debugger: One-Stop Page Debugging and Proxy Tool
https://github.com/wuchangming/spy-debugger
A powerful tool for debugging mobile web pages and WebView content (including WeChat) over the air, supporting both HTTP and HTTPS.
BBDown: A Command-Line Downloader for Bilibili
https://github.com/nilaoda/BBDown
A fast and efficient way to download videos from Bilibili directly from your terminal.
Next.js 12 Released
https://nextjs.org/blog/next-12
This is what a truly modern framework looks like. Everything Vercel puts out is always top-tier in quality.
Bulma: A Flexbox-Based CSS Framework
https://github.com/jgthms/bulma
With 40k stars, Bulma is known as the framework for those who don’t want to write manual CSS.
Just Looking Around
Exploration and Application of Sentiment Analysis at Meituan
https://tech.meituan.com/2021/10/20/the-applications-of-sentiment-analysis-meituan.html
How Meituan analyzes billions of user reviews to better understand merchant performance and user dining preferences.
Running Android Apps on Windows 11: The Experience
https://sspai.com/post/69446
What are the requirements, and how does it actually feel to use Android apps on a desktop? (Sadly, I don’t have a Windows machine to test this myself).
The Competitiveness of Chinese Manufacturing from a U.S. Perspective
https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/0GAojsIBWv1qwxvN0EXBzQ
A deeper look at industrial shifts and the underlying strengths of the manufacturing ecosystem in China.