Blog
Findings, know-how, essays, and the occasional rant.
Software and systems, cognitive science and AI, and older posts in Chinese from my competitive programming years.
Sharing: Reflections on Looking at a Mirror
Sharing Lu Xun's essay 'Reflections on Looking at a Mirror,' and using its satire of xenophobia to comment on the cultural insecurity behind today's 'cultural confidence' rhetoric.
转载 | 报人程益中
转载 Philip Pan《走出毛的阴影》第九章《报人》中译，讲述程益中和南方都市报的兴衰。
My Web Archiving Technique
A personal web archiving method: capturing pages with SingleFile and storing them on decentralized services like IPFS, with a comparison of public archive services such as the Wayback Machine and archive.today.
Sandboxie Plus: Secure, Easy-to-Use Sandboxing Software
The motivation and experience of using Sandboxie Plus to isolate domestic Chinese software such as DingTalk, including compatibility issues with Tor Browser and GitHub Desktop.
转载 | 许志永：我们无法逃避——关于南方都市报事件的说明 / 程益中：一个报人的反思
转载许志永就南方都市报事件发表的声明，以及程益中在香港的演讲《一个报人的反思》。
转载 | 没有熬不过的黑夜，没有等不来的黎明 / 中国梦，宪政梦
转载程益中 2004 年在南方都市报内部大会上的演讲，以及《南方周末》2013 年新年献词《中国梦，宪政梦》。
Killing Off a Driver That Was Causing DPC_WATCHDOG_VIOLATION Blue Screens
Records troubleshooting repeated DPC_WATCHDOG_VIOLATION blue screens on a Dell laptop, eventually tracing it to and uninstalling the SmartByte network driver.
Mirroring a Web Page with wget
How to mirror a static web page with a single wget command, walking through what the --mirror, --convert-links, --adjust-extension, --page-requisites, and --no-parent flags each do.
Electronics Will Not Harm Contemporary Society
The model essays kept arguing that electronics tempt people and waste their time. Creative work has diminishing returns and society keeps automating itself, which is why I think the premise is wrong.
Industrial Process Lecture Notes (Lecture 5: Gas Experiment / Full Organic Experiment Workflow)
High school chemistry lecture notes on industrial processes, covering apparatus setup and common operations for gas experiments, plus the full workflow, difficult operations, and evaluation for organic experiments.
Derivatives: Handling Multi-Variable Always-True Inequalities
High school math notes on derivatives, using an example inequality involving e^x to demonstrate three methods: parameter separation, Taylor expansion, and derivatives, for handling multi-variable always-true problems.
Sharing Two uBlock Origin Filter Lists
Sharing a self-maintained uBlock Origin subscription, filter-4400e6cd, with a domain-wide blocklist and a popup/script filter list, plus how it updates and refreshes its cache.