2026-07-07
The great circle is the provably shortest path between two airports — and airlines almost never fly it. I checked 107 of my own flights agai…
2026-07-07
After four or five years on Hugo, I rewrote this blog on AstroPaper — by typing /goal in Claude Code before bed and reviewing a working site…
2026-06-17
Most cameras still ship without a GPS module, so photos come out of the card with no location data in their EXIF. The official phone apps ar…
2026-06-17
WebArena Indigo is a cheap, good-value Japanese VPS that makes a great landing node. But if you front it with a relay and push traffic over …
2026-04-21
Notes on building a home network around an N100 mini PC running PVE 9.0 with iKuai as the main router and Debian 13 as a sing-box side gatew…
2026-04-05
A firsthand account of leaving a backup phone on a train during a trip from 新潟 to 酒田 and back to 東京, then recovering it through JR East's Lo…
2026-03-13
A Chinese opinion piece arguing that OpenClaw is better suited to non-developers than developers, because Skills can never cover every workf…
2026-03-01
I migrated my blog comments from Artalk to a custom Cloudflare-native stack using Workers, D1, and Telegram moderation, and now my entire bl…
2026-02-14
A discovery of a JR East fare calculation quirk where splitting a journey at Kinshichō was cheaper than riding continuously, caused by the t…
2026-01-05
A technical guide to bypassing SAKURA VPS international QoS bandwidth throttling by establishing a GRE tunnel through a commercial VPS like …
2025-11-19
A technical guide on using nftables with GeoIP to block inbound traffic from China, featuring a custom Go tool (auto-update-mmdb) that autom…
2025-09-29
An explanation of the two types of International Driving Permits under the 1949 Geneva and 1968 Vienna conventions, why Chinese citizens can…
2025-08-02
A detailed account of an extremely frustrating AppleCare+ replacement experience at Apple Taipei 101, where staff refused in-store service f…
2025-07-19
A comprehensive guide for mainland Chinese residents to visit Taiwan using an overseas-issued entry permit, detailing the application proces…
2025-06-12
An updated 2025 guide to WeChat multi-opening on iOS with push notification support using specific Bundle IDs like com.tencent.qy.xin and pr…
2025-05-10
The process of applying for a Real ID at Pennsylvania PennDOT after the May 2025 enforcement date, plus a strategy of maintaining both PA St…
2025-05-05
A Docker Compose deployment guide for ShadowTLS V3 with Shadowsocks or Snell, offering a more compatible alternative to Snell for users with…
2025-05-04
A simple PostgreSQL master-slave replication setup using bitnami/postgresql Docker image across Los Angeles and Pittsburgh servers, as an al…
2025-04-10
A quick guide to upgrading Proxmox VE without an enterprise subscription by adding the no-subscription repository and running apt dist-upgra…
2025-04-03
A detailed guide to converting a Chinese driver's license to a New Jersey license with road test waiver at specific MVC locations (North Ber…