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Starting 2022-04-27 22:18:22, this site came under hostile traffic from a China Telecom residential broadband line in Jinjiang District, Chengdu, Sichuan, China. Here's the post-incident breakdown. Please browse this site normally and politely.
Many people don't know grassroots webmasters exist. I got into the website-building scene back in high school, and I'm one of them. Our crowd runs personal sites, personal blogs, hobby-sharing sites — we're basically the bottom layer of the internet, mostly gathered around shared interests, and most of us will never make a cent.
A project needed KingbaseES V8 R3, but the vendor pulled the R3 download page, so people kept grabbing V8 R6 instead. R6 drivers and management clients cannot connect to an R3 database, and R6 and R3 cannot back up or restore to each other directly.
Google has long supported proactive URL submission, but it's not a point-and-click UI for ordinary users — it's an API for programmers. Plenty of webmasters aren't developers, and since Google requires ownership verification, I can't just build a UI where people paste their own private key. Instead I wrapped Google's API to make it easier to use.
This post walks through installing OpenWRT (LEDE) on x86_64 hardware — a.k.a. flashing it. x86_64 means a 64-bit x86 CPU, common in industrial PCs. Consumer wireless routers use different chips, so first check whether the chip platform supports OpenWRT, then build an image for that platform. Images are not interchangeable.
My last post covered building OpenWRT (LEDE) manually. Building yourself gives more freedom, but it means paying for a server. Is there a free one? GitHub Actions Workflows lets you compile OpenWRT (LEDE) for free, and it's fast — the default config builds in about an hour.
I bought a small industrial PC and started playing with soft routers. Here's my write-up so the next person can skip the pitfalls I hit. This post covers building OpenWRT (LEDE) yourself; follow-ups will cover automating the build with GitHub Actions Workflows and installing the x86 soft router system.
OmniOutliner, built by Omni, is a powerful outlining tool for writing and recording text information. Use it to capture ideas from your daily work and boost productivity — drafting to-do lists, building schedules, managing tasks, tracking expenses, taking notes, planning activities, flexibly combining creation, collection, and organization of information into one.
OmniFocus is the most powerful "Getting Things Done" tool for managing tasks and affairs on iOS and Mac, helping you organize your work and life logically. This Mac productivity tool helps you capture and manage tasks and ideas to get things done.
Somewhere along my long history with macOS I hit a bizarre failure from unknown causes, and Apple support suggested I create a new account. So I changed my username from "neil" to "renfei". After copying my data over from the old home folder, various apps kept throwing errors — and judging by the messages, they were still looking for paths under the old username.
