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First Impressions of Flutter
Notes from my first encounter with Flutter: the Skia rendering engine, the widget model, the Dart language and hot reload, plus cross-platform delivery from a single codebase.
Learning Frontend Development
Notes from learning Vue.js: two-way data binding, componentization, Virtual DOM, and lifecycle hooks—plus some thoughts on what TypeScript brings to frontend development.
Adding Plugins to the Ghost Blog Platform
My adventure adding comments to a Ghost blog: I wired up Disqus, got it working, then discovered it's blocked in China so domestic visitors couldn't see it at all. After weighing a proxy workaround, I switched to Valine, which works fine in China.
Setting Up HTTPS for Dockerized Nginx with certbot
Let's Encrypt certificates issued by certbot are symlinks, and they become unreadable once mounted into an nginx container. Notes on this docker volumes + symlink gotcha and the correct way to mount them.
Changing the Default Docker Image Storage Path on CentOS
A war story about changing Docker's default image storage path: from the --graph flag to storage drivers and d_type support, finally solved by mounting a data disk to stop images from vanishing after reboots.