Last week, I unfortunately developed a perianal abscess. What I initially thought was a minor issue turned out to be far more serious than expected—something that will likely have a significant impact on the rest of my life. Here’s a brief record of my diagnosis, surgery, and recovery.

Adding a “Moments” or social feed page to a static blog is a long-discussed topic. Previous solutions were either cumbersome to set up or inconvenient to use. To solve this problem definitively, I recently experimented with using GitHub Issues – requiring just two simple steps to create a dynamically updatable feed page.

My son is set to start elementary school this September. Previously, I hadn’t paid much attention to education, but recently, I took a systematic look at the current state of primary and secondary education. Along the way, I consulted many friends, uncovered quite a few insider details, and developed some rough opinions about my children’s future education.

CloudFlare R2 is a groundbreaking free service generously offered by the good folks at Cloudflare, providing users with 10GB of storage and unlimited bandwidth by default. However, this “unlimited” comes with some restrictions: no more than 1 million write operations and 10 million read operations per month, beyond which usage will be billed accordingly. Recently, I migrated over 110,000 images to R2 and became concerned about exceeding these limits, so I implemented strict security measures.

Recently, the collective lead poisoning incident at a kindergarten in Tianshui has sparked widespread public outrage. Issues ranging from food supervision and industrial materials to medical testing, groundwater pollution, and the local government’s baffling response have all contributed to a surge of anger. This is a good opportunity to discuss why ensuring food safety is such a daunting challenge.

My computer desk sits in a room with irregularly shaped walls—three straight walls and one curved wall by the window. The desk was custom-made to fit this curvature, so the desktop is flush against the wall. Unlike standard office desks, I can’t just let cables dangle behind it, resulting in a cable management disaster.

For years, I hadn’t used a high-refresh-rate monitor. This time, taking advantage of the 618 sales, I bought an MSI 272URDF E16 monitor. There were so many pain points that I decided to write a separate article about the issues I encountered during use, as well as some personal lessons on monitor selection.

Earlier this year, after obtaining the source code for the Soomal.com website, I uploaded it to my VPS. However, due to the outdated architecture of the original site, which was inconvenient to manage and not mobile-friendly, I recently undertook a complete overhaul, converting and migrating the entire site to Hugo.

I came across a bizarre argument on Zhihu claiming that China’s current rape rate is higher than India’s, questioning whether China remains a safe country. After some research, I found some intriguing phenomena behind this claim.

Yesterday afternoon, I suddenly got a call from the security office saying someone had come to deliver a commendation banner for me. I thought I must have misheard, so I asked them to repeat it. They mentioned that the person had called me about it on June 19th. Given the sheer number of calls I handle daily, I couldn’t recall such a conversation, so I told security to let them in to see what this was all about.