Is Blazor Worth Learning in China? Learn it if you are curious, tinkering on a personal project, or leading a team that wants to trial something ...
Does Frugality Make You Poorer or Richer? “You have to spend to earn” and “money is earned, not saved” are both half-true. The version I used to believe...
CEC-IDE: A Rebranded VS Code Marketed as Self-Developed The editor ships every VS Code feature plus local extras such as keyword filtering and a membership tier, whil...
Cutting Costs by Cutting My Own Hair Three trips to the mall barber at 52 CNY each, discounted, and every cut grew back within a month. So this mon...
UCloud: 4 Cores and 8 GB in Hong Kong for 978 CNY a Year Hands-on notes on UCloud's Hong Kong server: ticket-based support, no sales calls so far, and how the refund p...
On the New MIIT App Filing Requirement Short version: websites, games and apps all lose. Every route an individual had for building something online ...
Why So Few Developers in China Work with .NET Skip the history about .NET not being open source and look at the last few years. I started with .NET in 2014 ...
Challenge: 200 CNY for the Next Seven Days My ledger says I spent 1,174.05 CNY in the eight days up to today. At that rate the card bill will hit 2,000. ...
On Whether to Pay Into Social Insurance My rule of thumb: whatever society encourages you to do is rarely good for you, and whatever it discourages us...
Cutting Costs with Cashback Apps Livestream commerce made a few hosts rich, and almost every product link in those streams is an affiliate link...