Manuals
38 technical notes you can follow: AI tools, self-hosting, accounts, websites and going global. Pick one from the groups on the left, or press ⌘K to search.
AI8 posts
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Long Talk: How Dify Plugins Help Build AI Agent Apps
The Dify 1.0 plugin system: remote debugging, Endpoints, reverse invocation, and real-world use cases for SSH, gateways, databases, RAG, agent strategies and MCP.
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Dify Now Supports Video Generation, With a Tutorial for Building AI Video Apps
Build text-to-video and image-to-video apps in Dify with the Doubao video plugin: install, authorize, import a DSL, or build from scratch with Chatflow.
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Building a ChatGPT API Relay in Three Steps
Use Cloudflare Workers to forward requests to api.openai.com, so clients connect through a domain you bind yourself
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MetaGPT Getting Started and Installation Notes
MetaGPT is middleware, not a product. These notes cover Role, Trigger and Callback, plus a local installation that actually runs.
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Turn Notion Notes into an AI Assistant with Dify
Connect your Notion knowledge base to Dify and train a chat app that can answer questions, instead of letting your notes sit in the library
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Giving Your Lobster a Home: Deploying OpenClaw in a GUI Container
Putting OpenClaw into a containerized desktop on a cloud host, giving the agent a workbench it can work from long term.
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Automation Scripts
Automation scripts that AI wrote for my work, saved so I can grab and tweak them next time.
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Automatically Checking in Bulk Whether Links Open
Use a script to batch-test whether the links in a sitemap or CSV open, so you catch fewer broken links by hand.
Self-hosting6 posts
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Nginx Proxy Manager
Using Nginx Proxy Manager to assign domain names to Docker ports, so you don't have to hand-write yet another layer of Nginx.
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How to Set Up Redirects Easily with Docker?
After a service moves to a new machine, use one Nginx container to redirect the old port to the new address in 3 seconds.
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What Is Clash?
What Clash is, which kind of subscription it needs, and why so many protocols end up feeding into it.
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Building a Clash Subscription Converter Frontend
Skip the BaoTa panel. Use Vercel and a single VPS to set up a Clash subscription converter frontend.
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How to Bulk-Send Email with Gmail?
Using the Gmail API, raise daily sending volume from the few dozen a free plugin allows to near the official limit.
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Building an OneManagor + PicGo Image Host Tutorial
Setting up an image host with OneDrive + OneManagor + PicGo, where a screenshot uploads automatically.
Accounts6 posts
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How to Register a Non-Mainland Apple Account?
Apple IDs from the mainland can use only a limited set of services. This guide walks through registering a non-mainland account step by step.
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How to Handle Apple's Paid Services?
Work out your needs and budget first, then choose your region and plan, and really make use of Apple's paid services.
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Microsoft E3 Account Administrator Initialization
After you get a Microsoft E3 admin account, how to bind a domain and complete the initial setup.
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Introduction to Microsoft Account Types
A brief introduction to Microsoft's personal and enterprise account systems (draft).
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Facebook Account Pitfalls: The Vanishing WhatsApp API
The Facebook regional restriction I hit while applying for the WhatsApp API, and how a US account went wrong.
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How to Quickly Open an Online Shop with Dujiaoka?
Opening a small card-selling shop on one server with the open-source Dujiaoka, plus the pitfalls I ran into during installation.
Websites3 posts
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Docusaurus Tinkering Notes
What Docusaurus is, what it can do, and how I tinkered with it as a documentation site.
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Admonition Blocks
tip / info / warning blocks in the docs. Write ```tip to render one, no need to paste Infima classes.
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How to Use react-player Controls in Docusaurus?
Embedding video in Docusaurus Markdown with ReactPlayer is simpler than piling up iframes.
Going global & finance4 posts
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Opening an HSBC Account in Hong Kong: A Guide
What to bring to open an HSBC Hong Kong account, which branch to visit, and how to book a relationship manager.
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How to Open a Hong Kong Brokerage Account
Hong Kong online brokers let you buy US stocks. This guide covers the account opening routes for Futu and Hstong.
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Before You Head to Hong Kong
Before setting off to open a bank account in Hong Kong, sort out your internet access, cash, currency exchange and customs limits first.
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Notes on the Australian Skills Assessment
My application notes for the Australian Technical Writer skills assessment (VETASSESS).
Tools10 posts
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Recommended Development Tools
An index page of development tools I use for personal projects.
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Everything: Searching Local Files Quickly
Search local files instantly with Everything, with an exclusion list and common search syntax.
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IDEA Basic Setup
Common IntelliJ IDEA plugins, shortcuts, Live Templates, and how to import and export your settings.
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VS Code Configuration
VS Code plugin picks, keyboard shortcuts, custom cursor keys and @types for code completion.
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Vite Plugins
Vite plugins I use day to day: auto-import, components, pages, layouts and more.
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Identify Website Technologies with Wappalyzer
Use the Chrome extension Wappalyzer to identify a website's tech stack.
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Beautifying Windows Terminal
Beautifying PowerShell with Windows Terminal + Oh My Posh, with theme configuration included.
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Customizing the Windows Right-Click Menu
Customize the Windows right-click menu through the registry: CMD, VS Code and more.
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How to Create Multiple SSH Keys on One Machine and Connect to GitHub
Configure multiple SSH keys on one machine so you can connect to different GitHub accounts.
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How to Build Your Own Image Host with Cloudflare + PicGo?
Build an online image host with Cloudflare R2 and PicGo (draft, to be completed).
Product1 post
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Docs Engineering at Dify: How to Build a Knowledge System for the AI Era?
The full migration from GitBook to Mintlify: knowledge services for LLMs, framework research, and three kinds of migration problems covering images, syntax and links.