Let’s start with a tangent: the differences between socialism with Chinese characteristics and capitalism. Older generations often say, “To get rich, first build roads.” Infrastructure construction in China is funded by the state; in a capitalist society, these projects would be contracted out. In remote areas where there’s no profit to be made, companies wouldn’t be willing to take on such work. I don’t want to stray too far from the article’s main topic, but ordinary people may not feel much impact from the trade war. However, China’s high-end manufacturing has consistently been relatively weak. In my IT industry, memory, hard drives, CPUs, and graphics cards – the core components of a computer – all come from foreign factories. These parts account for 50% of the total cost of a machine. The development of high-end manufacturing is essential. A collision between China and the United States is inevitable.

The author developed an early interest in assembling computers and began exploring hardware during university. They recommend a website for comparing hardware performance and offer purchasing advice on components like CPUs, SSDs, HDDs, and memory frequency. The text also shares hardware selection experience and important considerations.

Due to slow access speeds within China for GitHub Pages, the author applied for a personal domain and purchased CDN acceleration services from a domestic cloud hosting provider. During configuration, they encountered an issue where the www subdomain was inaccessible, ultimately resolved by removing wildcard domain resolution and setting up the second-level domain separately. The author also shared the principles and configuration experience of CDN acceleration, as well as their attempts and lessons learned using Nginx reverse proxy.

This article introduces the basic concepts of Markdown and its applications in various software. It recommends using VSCode as an IDE and lists recommended plugins. The author shares their experience switching from Hexo to Hugo, emphasizing Hugo’s flexibility and customization capabilities. Finally, it provides tips for quickly getting started with new technologies and shares a trick for resolving Hugo theme styling update issues.

Automatically deploy a Hugo blog to GitHub Pages and Gitee using GitHub Actions

I hope that in twenty years, I’ll be a lovely old man, accompanied by a lovely old woman. Not seeking great wealth or status, just good health and the ability to travel around.

It’s a very common thing—since graduating high school and abandoning the time spent reading novels, it’s been a long while since I’ve seriously and quietly read a book. Sometimes looking back, after working for so long, do I even remember what I did each year? Often, by mid-year, I’ve already forgotten much of what happened in the first half. Blogging is a good habit; it doesn’t matter if much of what I write isn’t public—it’s originally meant for myself anyway.

My most loyal reader is myself

The text discusses the author’s perspective on journalism, emphasizing the need for social conscience, knowledge, and perseverance. The author also shares reflections from their 50s, including maintaining curiosity, balancing material and spiritual needs, and contemplating the future.