Why I Would Not Buy a Deepal Car Notes on the advertising built into Deepal's infotainment system, and why it is a dealbreaker for me.
A Chengde Developer's Three Years of Income Confiscated Why write about a September case in October: I waited a month for a follow-up that never came. Posts vanished ...
Building My Own Self-Hosted Services Why I stopped depending on third-party products, which services I chose to self-host, the problems hit during ...
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...
On the New MIIT App Filing Requirement Short version: websites, games and apps all lose. Every route an individual had for building something online ...
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...
