21 - time-flies

260 words Reading time 2 min Published on: 2024/11/18

Taken in Bianjing (Kaifeng). Watched molten iron fireworks (Da Tie Hua) for the very first time—utterly breathtaking! The older I get, the more captivating Chinese culture becomes~~

Interesting Tools

HTTP Status Cats
https://http.cat
Uses cute kitties to playfully represent HTTP status codes—super fun~~

PVE Helper Scripts Refactoring
https://github.com/community-scripts/ProxmoxVE
The maintainers completely refactored this project—huge thumbs up!

Healthchecks
https://github.com/healthchecks/healthchecks
Supports multiple health-check scenarios like cron jobs, resource monitoring, pings, and more.

Hitomi-Downloader
https://github.com/KurtBestor/Hitomi-Downloader
A desktop downloader supporting various video platforms. Hasn’t been updated in a while; unearthed it from my GitHub starred repos.

Deep-Live-Cam
https://github.com/hacksider/Deep-Live-Cam
An insanely powerful live camera tool that can instantly morph you into Elon Musk.

3D Printer Resources
https://jbp3d.com
A website aggregating tons of 3D printing assets and models.

Learning

Chinese Independent Blogs
https://github.com/timqian/chinese-independent-blogs
Curates lots of interesting bloggers. Some posts are incredibly high quality, though you’ll need to sift through them yourself~

Coder to Civil Servant Guide
https://github.com/coder2gwy/coder2gwy
Read through it myself—found plenty of useful advice, though parts are slightly dated.

Clean Architecture for Go
https://github.com/amitshekhariitbhu/go-backend-clean-architecture
Clean and elegant project structure patterns for Go backends.

Reading

1000 Hours (《1000 小時》)
https://1000h.org/intro.html
Applicable to learning any language. If you’re working on a second or third language, definitely give this a look~~