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Tech Is Not the Moat

A big company can copy your features, but they can't copy your understanding of users or your iteration speed. Tech is the lowest barrier. Business is the real game.

When AI Is Everywhere, Where Is the Value of Being Human?

The stronger AI gets, the more people crave real connection. As generative AI makes content cheap, community, emotion, and human texture are becoming the scarcest resources.

The base color of nine hundred million people

Sex and mahjong are the base color of more than two thousand county towns in China.

Financial independence and the tangle of family

Chinese parents want to give a little more. I just want to stop taking, sooner.

The flavor of the new year fades, the hometown stays

As a kid I thought my hometown had everything. Grown up, I see it for what it is — still a small mountain town, nothing more.

The AI Agent Payment Problem: Why Traditional Payments Can't Save the Agent Economy

When AI agents can work and earn on their own, they need a way to pay and be paid. Traditional money rails weren't built for that. Crypto might be the only answer.

A Quick Look at BFC

A practical look at BFC (Block Formatting Context) — the concept, the characteristics, and where it shows up in real development, including clearing floats and preventing margin collapse.

TypeScript Type Gymnastics

A walkthrough of beginner TypeScript type-gymnastics problems to get a real grip on the type system.

Notes on the React Component Lifecycle

A walk through the React component lifecycle — mount, update, unmount — using a ScrollView component as the running example.

Vibe Coding: The Illusion and Reality of the AI Programming Era

As AI code generation goes mainstream, how does the programmer's role evolve? Vibe Coding seduces us with "magic" while challenging the very nature of programming.