My absolute favorites are Japanese regular Draft Cola & Hong Kong Lemon Coke. The prices on the mainland are wild—regular Draft Cola even goes up to 10 RMB a can! Also, I have no clue which “genius” invented sugar-free diet Coke… If you’re drinking Coke with zero sugar, can you even call that drinking Coke????
Interesting Tools
Bibata Cursor
https://github.com/ful1e5/Bibata_Cursor
Super cute mouse cursor set—looks really slick with the highlight effect.
NextTrace
https://github.com/nxtrace/NTrace-core
Visual route tracking tool—much nicer and easier to use than standard traceroute.
ImHex
https://imhex.werwolv.net
A hex analysis and modification editor that looks incredibly cool. I remember when I was a kid watching someone open a file packed with raw hex data, tinker with a bunch of bytes, and suddenly play media from it.
Remote Working
https://freshremote.work/
https://www.upwork.com/
Sharing two platforms for finding remote gigs. Definitely make sure to find reliable clients—nearly all the gigs I took on over the past few years either fell apart midway or stiffed me on the final payment. Talk about terrible luck.
Learning
Regex Learning
https://github.com/ziishaned/learn-regex/blob/master/translations/README-cn.md
Relearning regular expressions from scratch. This short tutorial is super handy for a quick refresher.
Modern C++ Tutorial
https://github.com/changkun/modern-cpp-tutorial
Brushing up on C++ to tackle some algorithm problems.
Effective Modern C++
https://github.com/CnTransGroup/EffectiveModernCppChinese
Writing efficient, modern C++ code.
Reading
The Art of Rest (《深度休息》)
