Airing's Blog (English)

Explores the existentialist question of life's meaning and the collapse of assigned value, offering practices for living fully, from ordinariness to connection.

A two-part look at Flutter build artifact composition and size-reduction techniques, covering the principles, methods, and implementation details for slimming down iOS and Android Flutter apps.

Shares a knowledge and task management workflow built around Roam Research, covering its Page/Block linking, tagging system, and daily task review habits.

Starting from the problem of standpoints in Zhuangzi's Qiwulun, this essay uses the Ladder of Inference to analyze how attitudes and judgments form in communication, seeking effective consensus.

A rundown of Flutter exception types and capture methods, followed by a canary rollout and graceful degradation scheme designed to improve production stability for Flutter apps.

A 2020 year in review: moving from Green Diamond to livestreaming, a year immersed in Flutter, notes on work habits, and a long essay on the game Sky.

An essay reading the game Sky: Children of the Light through aesthetics, psychology, hermeneutics, and existentialism, examining its art, gameplay, and social design.

Starting from Flutter's rendering principles, this post compares three cross-platform approaches and systematically explains four Flutter hybrid development modes with engineering practices.

An analysis of the core capabilities a Flutter hybrid framework needs, such as navigation stack and lifecycle management, examined through Flutter Boost, Thrio, and QFlutter architectures.

An overview of Flutter Boost, Xianyu's open-source Flutter hybrid framework, walking through its shared-engine architecture, page lifecycle management, and container communication source code.

A 2019 year in review: finishing a thesis, joining QQ Music full-time, stalling on Twin Diary 3.0, a WWDC trip, and a year of games, shows, books, and cats.

Fourth in a React Hooks source-code series, explaining why useEffect replaces lifecycle methods, its dependency array, and how it's implemented in React.

Third in a React Hooks source-code series, focused on useState: its usage and rules, building a minimal implementation before dissecting the React source.

Second in a React Hooks source-code series, comparing five ways to reuse component logic: Mixins, class inheritance, higher-order components, and render props.

First in a React Hooks source-code series, comparing class, function, and pure components, and tracing how PureComponent controls re-rendering in React.

A travel journal of attending WWDC19 in San Jose as a Scholar: flight mishaps, meeting a mentor and a YouTuber, touring Apple Park and Stanford, and reflections on growth and life's meaning.

The founder of 2life Diary shares the team's product workflow: initiation, design, development, and maintenance, plus tooling choices and issue-tracking practices.

An explanation of HTTP Parameter Pollution (HPP) attacks, illustrated with a real HackerOne social-share-button vulnerability, covering common attack techniques and corresponding defenses.

Explains how Cross-Site Tracing (XST) abuses TRACE/TRACK requests to expose httpOnly cookies and other sensitive headers, plus defenses like disabling TRACE and browser restrictions.

A guide to CSRF: how GET, POST, and link-based attacks work, and how same-origin checks, SameSite cookies, and synchronizer tokens compare as defenses.

A technical rundown of reflected, stored, DOM-based, and JSONP XSS attacks with examples, plus defenses covering input/output escaping, CSP headers, and HttpOnly cookies.

Drawing on Detroit: Become Human and other sci-fi works, this piece surveys mind-body dualism, behaviorism, physicalism, and functionalism, using the Chinese Room to ask whether artificial consciousness is even theoretically possible.

Personal reflections on reading academic literature and writing essays, breaking the process into five phases — collection, reading, study, construction, and writing — for readers to reference.

A 2018 year in review: an internship turned job offer at QQ Music, a philosophy thesis, building the indie app Twin Diary, and a breakup.

A personal essay on Ralph Breaks the Internet, reflecting on friendship and growing up through Ralph and Vanellope learning to let go, and how real friendship endures without constant closeness.

Walks through building a web-based terminal-emulator blog, covering the Mac Terminal-styled UI, keydown-driven rendering logic, and commands like help, clear, and ls backed by a Node.js API.

Examines building an intelligent push system for online learning, covering data storage, learner modeling, and a recommendation algorithm blending classic methods.

A farewell to four years at Guangzhou University: from gaming and tech to philosophy after a health scare, ending in admission to a philosophy graduate program.

An analysis of over 60,000 scraped Douban Movie entries, comparing rating distributions between Chinese films and those from other countries, examining claims of a rating credibility crisis.

The author scraped and analyzed all 20 million registered Bilibili users, profiling gender, age, region, and signup trends, finding a near-even gender split dominated by post-90s students.