AI Router

During the New Year's Day holiday, I went to Hong Kong to open a bank card with Bank of China (Hong Kong). I thought it would be a very simple matter, but in practice I ran into quite a few unexpected problems. In particular, the issues with China Telecom SIM card roaming and the bank App's logic took a very long time to sort out.

After going another hundred rounds with nano banana, I finally presented the basics of flashing in a very friendly way, producing what I believe to be a beginner-friendly teaching document. In this era where flashing is becoming increasingly niche, I hope it can be of some help to this niche community.

Wasting several hours of precious time and over a hundred yuan taught me a lesson: what a good VPS really looks like when used as a proxy

A cover extractor is an online tool that automatically parses video covers based on video links.

MobaXterm is a feature-rich toolkit for remote computing tasks, designed to integrate complex remote operation workflows into a single Windows application. Its core value lies in the high aggregation of the technology stack—for programmers who need to frequently switch between development, operations, and diagnostic tasks, this is a decisive factor for efficiency.

Internet Download Manager (IDM) is a powerful download manager that speeds up downloads, resumes interrupted or corrupted downloads, and lets users set download schedules. IDM supports multiple protocols including HTTP, FTP, HTTPS, and MMS.

Blinko is an open-source note-taking app focused on quickly capturing inspiration and organizing ideas. It uses two modes: "Flash" and "Note." "Flash" is for jotting down fleeting thoughts on the fly, with automatic scheduled cleanup to keep things simple and efficient; "Note" provides a full management system with tag categorization and batch organization of content. The core selling point is AI-enhanced retrieval — Blinko comes with built-in RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) technology, allowing you to query note content using natural language and quickly find the information you need.

OpenCut 是一款免费开源的视频编辑器，定位为 CapCut（抖音剪映国际版）的替代品github.com。官方将其描述为“面向网页、桌面和移动端”的编辑工具，强调隐私优先（视频始终在本地设备上处理）、功能免费不收费以及界面简洁易用github.com。该项目于 2025 年中开始开发，并在 GitHub 上迅速聚集了大量关注。当前仍处于早期测试阶段，基本支持视频导入、多轨时间轴剪辑和裁剪（Cut/Trim）等基础功能，且完全无水印免费opencut.appblog.rownok.com。开发者和社区持续迭代更新，计划后续补充完整的导出、转场、特效和音频编辑等功能opencut.app。

Comet browser, launched by Perplexity AI, a leader in the field of AI search, represents a fundamental turning point in the history of web browsing tools. It marks the shift of the browser paradigm from traditional information retrieval tools to task execution agents (Agentic Executor). Comet's core value lies in its AI agent capability — Comet Assistant can autonomously execute complex tasks across multiple websites and applications, such as online shopping, schedule planning, data analysis, and even basic website building¹.

uBlacklist 是一款浏览器扩展，专注于筛选搜索结果，主要用于屏蔽特定网站在 Google 等搜索引擎中的显示。

如果您的Notion数据库已经修改了内容，发现网站内容还是旧的，说明绑定NotionPageID失败了，请重新检查Vercel后台是否正确配置好ID，并尝试重新部署。

Meta description: A comprehensive list of overused AI writing phrases — from "delve into" to "it is worth noting" — with plain-English replacements you can use today.

Apple N50 smart glasses slipped to WWDC 2027. Blockers: chip and heat limits in a 40g frame, camera privacy risks, and a market Meta already dominates.

Google AI Mode is fast for research, shopping, and local queries. But hallucinations are real, it can't book reservations, and there's no off switch.

Anti-motion-sickness apps fight nausea with visual motion cues that sync to your inner ear. iOS 18 Vehicle Motion Cues is free. Android: KineStop.

A deep, step-by-step walkthrough of remote-developing inside WSL 2 from a Mac using VS Code—including how the client–server architecture works and the key performance pitfalls.

Build a click-to-use workflow for Mac-to-WSL 2 remote development using Windows 11 Mirrored Mode and an SSH wake-on-connect trigger.

A practical guide to connect VS Code on macOS directly into WSL 2 inside a Windows host, using port forwarding or SSH ProxyJump for a fast, native Linux dev experience.

Engineering

Most AI coding tricks fade after a week. These three workflows survived months of daily use: spec-first scaffolding, test-anchored refactoring, and review-as-prompt.

Meta

After running a Notion-based blog for a while, I rebuilt it on my own SaaS template. Here is what changed, what I kept, and why owning the pipeline matters.

Engineering

This post has no Chinese translation — it should list on /blog but not on /zh/blog.

Engineering

The ten-minute preflight I run before a new server goes live: DNS, TLS, backups, logs, monitoring, and the rollback story.

Engineering

Postgres has survived every trend I have thrown at it. A case for choosing the database that will still be fine in ten years.

Notes

The tools that survived another year of churn: one editor, one terminal, a homelab that fits in a drawer, and fewer apps than ever.

Notes

The Saturday-to-Sunday playbook: pick a sharp edge, buy the boring parts, demo before polish, and ship before the commute resets your brain.