Airing's Blog (English)

These are my notes and reflections from June through August 2026.

Over the past month I've received three letters in a row from strangers — all software engineers I've never met.

This issue covers April and May 2026.

This issue covers my reflections from March 2026.

Eight years of annual reviews now.

This issue covers my reflections from September to October 2025.

This issue covers my reflections from July to August 2025.

Back in Monthly (Issue 16): My Personal Information Flow, I wrote about how I handle information input and output.

This issue is a record of and reflection on May and June 2025.

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This issue is a record of and reflection on February through April 2025.

Seven years of annual reviews now.

This issue is a record of and reflection on November and December 2024.

Opening: Letters of Consultation and Reflections on Self-Healing Over the past two years, I have continued to receive letters of consultation through my blog.

This post covers the best Mac apps I've discovered over my years working in software — many of which I still use daily.

This issue is a record of and reflection on life from September to October 2024. 🌿 Slow Travel and Startup Life On September 27th, after returning my company assets, I said goodbye to Shenzhen — and to Guangdong, where I'd lived since I first came here as…

Part One: Present, Past, and Future 1.1 Present Like the morning dew. — Short Song Ballad I handed in my resignation.

I'm offering two forms of consultation.

This issue is a record of and reflection on life in April 2024.

I've wanted to write about this for a long time.

This issue is a record of and reflection on life from January to March 2024.

Another year-end review — the sixth since I started writing them.

This issue is a record of and reflection on life in October 2023.

This issue is a record of and reflection on life in September 2023.

This issue is a record of and reflection on life from May to August 2023.

This is a record and reflection on my life in April 2023. 🚀 Short Video in the Age of Speed I keep a Logseq whiteboard for newsletter topic ideas.

This is a record and reflection on my life in March 2023. 🎬 Books, Films & Shows This Month Reading: Novel | Demian | ★★★★★ Reading: Novel | Young Babylon | ★★★★★ Reading: Literature | A History of Western Literature | ★★★★☆ Finished: J-Drama | Restart (M…

The Meaning of Keeping a Journal At the end of the month, while reviewing my diary to gather material for the monthly post, I stumbled across my entries from February 28th of 2017, 2018, and 2019 on DayOne, and from 2020, 2021, and 2022 on Daylio.

Introduction This article explores cross-platform framework technology — analyzing the technical goals and three evolutionary directions, then diving into the implementation details of custom-rendering cross-platform solutions built internally at major co…

Escaping Social Media This month I experimented with "escaping social media."

And just like that, this is the fifth year-end review.

Go Where Your Heart Leads Lately I've been obsessed with a Bilibili series called "Xu Yun Roaming China."

The weekly format felt like a bit too much pressure, so I've been on a break for a while.

📌 2026 Expanded Rewrite: This 2022 original has been reworked into an immersive expanded edition — Chromium source paths, class hierarchies, algorithm skeletons and diagrams added for every stage, with new deep-dives into LayoutNG / PaintController / Skia…

The Mysticism Lever and the Isekai Groups This weekend I listened to a podcast episode about online divination among young people: EP03 The "Spectacle" of Online Divination: Gen Z Giving Life Advice to Boomers – Jump Down the Rabbit Hole.

Case Sensitivity in Frontend Development I was nudged to write a technical post this week, so I spent the weekend writing Case Sensitivity in Frontend Development.

Case sensitivity in software development refers to situations where the same "word" behaves differently depending on whether its letters are uppercase or lowercase.

How Does Divination Work?

Two months in, and I've managed to hit every single issue without missing one — ten issues on the dot.

From High Efficiency to High Drain — Observations and Reflections The Phenomenon: Information Consumption Goes from Efficient to Exhausting I came across an article on the Tencent Research Institute website titled Why Does the Internet Make Us Increasingly

Three-Act Structure and the Hero's Journey Before diving into the three-act structure, let's talk about how to analyze a story in the first place.

Models for Impromptu Speaking I came across a video on Bilibili this week where the creator introduced several speaking frameworks.

Perception Checking in the Art of Communication I came across an article this week that summarized key ideas from Looking Out, Looking In.

A Day in My Life at TME 7:30 — Wake up 8:10 — Leave home, take the company shuttle to work 8:50–9:30 — Arrive at the office; breakfast + reading through my reading list 9:30–10:00 — Review carry-overs from yesterday and plan today's tasks, then start work…

This is a sample English translation of Weekly #4 for development testing.

This issue wasn't what I had originally planned.

Reclaiming Lost Curiosity I read two articles about curiosity this week — If Time Has Trimmed Our Curiosity as We Grow Up, Should We Blame Time?

Why I'm Starting a Newsletter The posts on my blog tend to be long and heavy — usually 4,000 words or more.

JavaScript offers nine ways to convert a string to a number: parseInt() parseFloat() Number() Double tilde (~~) Operator Unary Operator (+) Math.floor() Multiply with number The Signed Right Shift Operator (>>) The Unsigned Right Shift Operator (>>>) Here…

Another year, another review. 2021 felt like it went by so fast that I'm still not sure what to call it.