Over the past few years, Lawtee has taken countless detours when it comes to publishing on a static blog. A quick search through Old T’s blog reveals several articles about Hugo, all focusing on this very issue. But looking back at past experiences, no matter which method was tried, few lasted more than a week with Lawtee willingly continuing to use them. Most of the time, using them felt like being stuck in an unavoidable “predicament.” Now, the ultimate solution has arrived.
In recent years, various methods for publishing static blogs have emerged, but many are either complex or difficult to maintain long-term. This article introduces a simple and efficient approach: using GitHub Issues as the publishing endpoint for a Hugo blog, leveraging GitHub Actions to automatically convert Issues into Hugo content and deploy to GitHub Pages. This method is particularly suitable for users who prefer using the GitHub mobile app to publish blog posts anytime, anywhere. Based on Lao T’s practical experience, this tutorial addresses issues such as downloading images from private repositories and extracting tags, and is suitable for both public and private repositories.
The other day, Lawtee saw someone complaining in a WeChat group: “Why is the router address 192.168.1.1, such a string of numbers that’s hard to remember? Can’t it be something simpler, like 1.2.3.4?” At first glance, this question seemed quite interesting. Lawtee has used many routers but never thought about where the number 192.168.1.1 came from. So, he looked up some information online and even asked an AI. However, after comparing multiple sources, he found that the explanations on the Chinese internet about this issue seemed lacking and not very accurate. Here, Lawtee summarizes his findings, striving to uncover the historical truth.
The other day, Lawtee briefly answered a question on Zhihu about suspension bridges. While it received many upvotes, there were also numerous skeptics in the comments, mainly debating whether the main cable of a suspension bridge can be repaired or replaced. Since Lawtee knows nothing about bridge construction, I relied on basic reading skills and consulted serious literature to clarify this issue.
Recently, I had the privilege of returning to my alma mater, Foshan University, to attend a live lecture by the widely popular Professor Luo Xiang. I felt a swirl of inexplicable emotions but struggled to articulate them. So, I decided to jot down whatever came to mind.
Recently, I came across an interesting article on Slate titled How the Government Ate My Name by an author named Giovanni Garcia-Fenech. Coincidentally, Lawtee had previously written a brief analysis titled What Impact Will the K Visa Implemented on October 1 Have on Ordinary People?, discussing potential foreign immigration trends. This got me thinking: do foreigners coming to China also face the issue of their names being “eaten”?
This National Day holiday was much like previous years. Over the past decade, Lao T has mostly driven between his “two homes” in Hunan and Guangdong during the holiday, except for a few years when he traveled elsewhere.
If there was any difference this time, it was that with more family members traveling, the five-seater car couldn’t accommodate everyone, so he had to buy train tickets for them. It was this experience of purchasing train tickets that made Lao T rediscover buses as a mode of transportation.
Recently, a hot topic has been trending on Zhihu. The upcoming K visa issued by the government has sparked anxiety among many—will foreigners also come to compete for jobs?
Recently, influenced by Typhoon “Hua Jiasha,” the nighttime temperatures have been uncomfortably mild—too cool for air conditioning but slightly stuffy without it. Old T, trying to save electricity, opted to use just an electric fan overnight. Unfortunately, this attempt at frugality backfired, and he ended up catching a cold.
At first, it seemed like an ordinary cold with a runny nose for a couple of days. But just as the sniffles were subsiding, his sense of smell suddenly vanished again!
It has been exactly 10 days since Lawtee officially started using a WeChat Official Account on September 1st. These 10 days feel both short and long. Short, because compared to Old T’s journey of online writing since 2008, these 10 days are almost negligible. Long, because these 10 days have been the most rewarding period in Old T’s 17 years of writing, filled with novelty and challenges.