It’s my seventh year in the job, and I’m not getting as much positive feedback on the code I write. Let me reflect on how I ended up on this coding path. People’s choices, especially when they’re younger, tend to follow positive reinforcement more closely – actively avoiding harm and seeking benefit.

The policy announcement was incredibly sudden, and its implementation was swift – the Health Code QR code was lifted, and checks for green codes in public places ceased. Browsing the Chinese-language version of The New York Times, the entire front page was dominated by discussions about China’s reopening.

While reviewing the code, std::this_thread::yield() suddenly popped into my view, a syntax sugar from C11 that I’d used quite a bit, but hadn’t noticed before.

I had an idle Tencent Cloud server that was expiring at the end of the year and I hadn’t planned to renew it. So, I decided to deploy a MySQL database for development purposes. When reinstalling the system, I wanted to save time and chose a third-party image provided by Tencent Cloud, which already had MySQL installed. I thought the system should include a Readme file or similar documentation explaining the password and deployment path.