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Since the last time SQYBI.com went offline, I've attempted multiple times to handwrite a blog system myself.

This might seem simple, but it's actually quite challenging. In SQYBI.com: Relaunching After a Decade, I mentioned a few details. Back then, although frameworks like Django provided a foundation, and I (painfully) completed the basic functionality, the frontend frameworks at that time were too rudimentary. Besides CSS issues, writing dynamic updates based on AJAX was also very cumbersome.

Fortunately, over the past decade, many new frameworks, languages, and service providers have emerged. Thanks to Node.js, React, Docusaurus, Cloudflare, ChatGPT, Brevo, GitHub, wysimark, Giscus, and possibly other infrastructures I haven't mentioned, I was able to quickly build the current version of this website.

After relaunching the blog, I had been using Giscus as the comment system. However, I noticed that over time, nobody was leaving comments anymore.

Giscus is based on GitHub, and as is well known, GitHub is inaccessible in China. Combined with some previous configuration issues, Giscus couldn't be displayed on some mobile devices even when using a VPN.

Though I don’t know exactly how much this affected people's willingness to comment, I decided to replace it with a self-developed comment system. After all, I can't simply assume all visitors have a VPN. Additionally, this gave me a chance to pick up where I left off on my blog system, at least completing a substantial functionality once and for all.

Another reason might be that after recently redecorating the website, Giscus's frontend seemed a bit out of place. Although adjusting CSS might achieve coherence, the workload would be significant. As it turns out, even developing my own system, most of the time was spent adjusting CSS.

A bit of self-praise, this counts as deeply customizing Docusaurus. I wonder if anyone else uses Docusaurus to build a blog and has done so much secondary development. If so, I'd like to check out their site.

It's been a while since I updated the blog. A few days ago, I published a new article and upgraded the version of Docusaurus along the way.

After solving some compatibility issues, it felt like something was different. So, I carefully read through the Docusaurus update logs and found that they indeed added many useful features recently.

After making changes according to these features one by one, I decided to briefly summarize these updates and the corresponding modifications on SQYBI.com.

If you need to view other articles in the series, please use the tag to jump to the article directory page: #becoming-an-brilliant-programmer.

Thanks to MD-20880 for pushing for an update, let's continue writing this series this time.

I've actually been writing this article for several months, but when work is required, my energy is really consumed significantly. This means that every time I have the chance to continue writing, it has been a week or two since the last session. Even though I have a rough outline ready, I still need to spend a lot of time re-reading what I wrote previously to connect with my past self.

After much reflection, considering that I haven't been able to update a single article for several months, I've decided to break this article into several shorter ones. This way, on one hand, I will have more stock on hand, and on the other hand, I can divide the content into chapters for easier recall of what was previously written.

In the first article, let's discuss why I chose "management" as the theme for these articles.

Just jotting down some brief solutions to problems:

Unable to use Hysteria2 port hopping with HomeProxy's sing-box on Openwrt? Why not hop it yourself!

To view other articles in the series, please use the tag to jump to the article directory page: #becoming-an-brilliant-programmer.

Yes, I'm starting a new series.

Thinking back to when I first started working in 2013, it has already been 11 years, and my annual leave has finally reached 10 days, which is quite a delightful and congratulatory milestone.

During these 11 years, I've definitely encountered numerous pitfalls. Reflecting on the past, I often faced moments of confusion: Why can't I do well? Am I strong or weak? What exactly is this so-called "career development plan"? Such questions, along with a myriad of unforeseen changes that one could never imagine while in the "ivory tower," arrived in quick succession.

When I tried to emulate those "successful" individuals, I realized that their so-called successful experiences were simply not applicable to me, leading to deeper self-doubt: Could it be that I'm truly incompetent, unable to achieve success like them?

To this day, I still feel that such "success" is not replicable. Fortunately, as I am increasingly less often addressed as "youngster," I also see a deeper understanding of this among the younger crowd.

Similarly, I do not believe that my series of articles can truly help everyone become an excellent programmer; the idea is merely a selling point. Or rather, perhaps my unnoticed blog doesn't even need a selling point; having a title is simply because an article must have one. Rather than being a guide, these contents are more like pure reflections. If you agree that a person's self is composed of all their past life experiences, you'll understand this point quite easily.

Recently, I haven't been feeling great, so I've decided to write about some simpler topics.

Here, I recommend a browser extension: Immersive Translate. It satisfies almost all of my expectations for a translation plugin, except for the lack of OCR functionality and the inability to translate some special PDF documents. It meets nearly all the main needs in work and life, and the way it retains the original text in translations is far superior. In addition, it can flexibly integrate various translation interfaces (the feature of integration itself is free!), making it the most useful browser extension I've encountered so far, bar none.

Its official website is here, and you can go check it out for yourself.

As for how much I recommend this plugin, it might be evident from the signature on my work Slack:

“A Chrome extension everyone should have”

TL;DR: When using Linksys VELOP routers as the main router in a network environment with a secondary router, it may lead to difficulties in setting up the secondary router or loss of network performance. It's recommended to consider other routers first. Update: Netgear routers won't work either; just stick with Xiaomi.

A few days ago, tired of the frequent disconnections of the wireless Mesh network of the Asus routers, I decided to upgrade the home wireless Mesh network as a whole. After some simple research, I opted for the Linksys VELOP series routers with a reputation for having “less functionality and customizability but being stable.” The model I chose was the MX4200.

After setting up the wireless Mesh network with several routers, I began attempting to integrate a secondary router into the system.

Since my previous Asus router was already connected to a secondary router, I naively assumed that a similar quick configuration would suffice.

However, the actual situation was completely different from what I had imagined, and I faced numerous issues. Not only did a simple configuration fail to resolve the issues, but even after I eventually figured out all the problems, I found that I could only use an imperfect solution to incorporate the secondary router.

This is why I concluded from the outset: The Linksys VELOP is not suitable as the primary router in a network environment with a secondary router.

Below, I will analyze in detail all the issues encountered during the integration process, their causes, temporary solutions, and the principle behind them.

The article is quite lengthy and contains many technical terms. If it's difficult to read in one go, consider reading in sections. Of course, if you do manage to get through it all at once, please let me know in the comments — I will respect you as a hero, whether you're a man or a woman.

After publishing the first article about website construction, I had intended to take advantage of the three minutes of enthusiasm to quickly update a few more articles.

Unfortunately, things didn't turn out as desired. On the very night the article was published, one of my cats passed away from a sudden heart attack, returning to the stars. Having just settled that matter, I had to travel to Shanghai on short notice for work. Besides that, there was a string of meetings already scheduled that I needed to attend.

Because of various emergencies, I've been incredibly busy these days. Fortunately, after checking in last night and during the flight back to Beijing today, I still had a few hours of free time. I used this time to quickly add support for multiple languages (i18n) to the website, and I can also write a short article to introduce how I've made use of large models in my development process.