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How I Set Up a WordPress Site

Sun, 13 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000

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Last year I handled several large WordPress sites at work. I’m here to record and share the WordPress hosting strategy I learned.

This site will also be changed to WordPress later. After changing, I will come back to share why and how I did it.

Personal Website

Sun, 03 Mar 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Building a Static Site with Hugo

Sat, 02 Mar 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Talk about eval in JavaScript, Risks and Alternatives

Sat, 30 Sep 2023 00:00:00 +0000

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Preface #

Recently, I used App Script provided by Google Sheets to write a small crawler for a friend to automate moving and organizing information on web pages. I found that the information in <script /> in HTML Source could not be read directly. when asking ChatGPT, it suddenly gave me an implementation using eval. Before, I only knew not to use it. This time I decided to seriously understand when it might be used, why not to use it, and what are the alternatives.

From Callback to Async/Await: Sequential Fade-In Animation

Mon, 21 Aug 2023 00:00:00 +0000

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Foreword #

The article is aimed at those know the concept of Callback Hell, Promise and Async/Await, but haven’t dealt with it or not completely understand the difference.

I will guide you the three ways to implement “Sequential Fade In elements after clicking a button”.

Implementing Google OAuth Login (Vue / Express)

Sun, 23 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000

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Preface #

Recently, the company needed to integrate third-party login. As it was my first time doing it, I stepped into quite a few pitfalls. I also found that Google has updated again, and many articles I found were no longer usable, so I decided to share and record the integration process.

Talk about Web Fonts — Design, File Formats and Frontend Loading

Thu, 28 Oct 2021 00:00:00 +0000

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A while ago, the font bundle from Design Not Deep caused a wave of font claiming craze. Besides slides, posters, and social media posts, have you ever thought about how fonts are used on web pages?

photo by David Klein on Unsplash

Design System - Things Frontend Engineers Should Know

Wed, 22 Sep 2021 00:00:00 +0000

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Before talking about Design System, I want to mention a concept: “Planning > Implementation”.

The nature of a software engineer is actually very close to that of an architect, except they build houses and we build systems.

A good house requires good architectural design, blueprints, understanding of the structure, and a lot of time spent on planning and design in the early stages.

Frontend Framework 101: Things You Should Know Before Learning a Framework

Sun, 11 Jul 2021 00:00:00 +0000

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Choosing a frontend framework has always been a big question for many beginners (including me). I started writing React because my company was using it. Recently, due to some circumstances, I started touching Angular, which inspired me to think more about “Frontend Frameworks”. Issues like what “framework” actually refers to? What can be called a “framework”? Why does frontend need to use it? What happens if you don’t use it? I heard Vue3 is powerful, should I learn it? And so on.