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TLDR; 我觉得 Spec Driven Development 没有解决什么问题, 这套范式和方向是错误的. 银弹尚未出现, 软件工程的效率仍旧被限制. 即使 AGI 出现, 能够出现类人的智能表现, 这个困境短期内也无法解决. 怎么解决? 我不知道. 没有圣杯, 没有银弹, 小团队快速迭代可以缓解这个问题, 这已经是目前的最优解了. Coding Agent 可以大幅优化这个最优解, 依旧是放大器那个领域, 放大了本来强的地方. 但是没有办法弥补这个缺陷, 解决这个目前. 软件工程仍旧是从经验中学到的一些教训, 没有时间的沉淀是无法被验证有效的. 所幸好消息是, 现在 Coding Agent 的出现能让一切加速. 好的经验教训一般都比较容易接受, 然后作为工程师我们也能受益. 一项好的设计或者经验, 可能会被独立的多次发现, 只要有一个发现者愿意分享出来而不是私藏,…
Anyway 这个周记我还是使用手敲输入; 尽管最近 typeless 好像挺火的, 但是感觉我的表达能力已经非常的支离破碎了. 多写点字, 让自己重新捡一捡结构表达的技巧. 最近开始尝试 Claude Code + 各种 MCP / Plugin, 目前我能用上的只有 Linear 和 Notion, 而且还不是编程方面, 只是做自动化方面. 把 Linear 接进来以后, 让 Claude Code 当我的 PM. 然后我发现了一件非常震惊的事情, 我现在同时在进行的 side project 有八个. 🤡 感觉自己很傻逼, 又陷入了之前那种忙不赢的状态了. 大概盘点一下手上在做的和想做的活: Haye AI: 持续迭代, 正在做 Agent Mode 支持其他模型, 还有 @ command 和 / command, 写了很多 native 集成, 但是还没做完, 抱歉大家久等了.…
A Kubernetes Ingress Controller implementation using Cloudflare Tunnel for secure and easy exposure of services. Visit the project at: tunnel.strrl.dev
距离上一次更新又过去了 45 - 27 = 18 周, 四个半月; 说长不长, 说短不短, 足够发生很多事情; 之前不知道犯了什么病了, 老是想用英语来写博客. 可能确实内心里还是有些 “冲国人不能纯玩” 的想法, 写点小东西都要考虑收获点什么. 带来的后果就是基本启动不起来, 中文都不想写, 就更别提英文了. 既要又要还要的最终结果就是, 努力了几次以后, 最后还是归零. 我看了下从 23 年第 8 周开始犯病写英文周报, 23 年 9 篇, 24 年 9 篇, 25 年 2 篇, 然后断更. 也不能说努力了几次吧, 这个事情阻力足够大, 系统搭出来以后也是脆弱的. 快速过下最近的状态吧; 工作 准备换新坑了 最近无论是主职还是 side project, 都在了解很多新玩意. 不是技术上的, 而是组织上的. 我个人来说, 经历大概是:…
TLDR; I get diagnosed as ADHD, and get some drugs (Vyvanse). It works pretty well, and changed my life a lot. I conducted a personal case study this weekend: I didn’t take my Vyvanse for two days, and the results were a noticeable increase in pacing around, getting easily distracted, and feeling irritable towards my family. For friends who suspect they might have ADHD, and feel it has…
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Important Updates Update at March 1, 2026. The “Beast Mode” is totally outdated. Current SOTA model(opus 4.5, opus 4.6, sonnet 4.6) could do much better out-of-the-box. Update at Oct 11, 2025. With Claude Sonnet 4.5 and gpt-5-codex, I think I do not need beast mode anymore. Just give a hint, read doc from “https:// ” and follow the instruction, AI Coding Agent will handle…
Long time no see! It has been a while since last time I wrote something. I did have some expressions to share. I logged them into my Notion, and the next time I review them days later, I think, fine, that thing is not that important, I can just let it go. Professional Stuff AI Coding Assistant The last time I talk about AI coding assistant was in 2024 Week 46 Weekly Recap . Half years later, the…
Saturday, the weather is nice. I originally wanted to just bring a book to the library and read for the afternoon. But I remembered that I haven’t finished things before the deadline (DDL), so I had to bring my computer as well.
Several days ago, I read Xuanwo’s 2024 Review - 40 questions to myself , I think I should also make one, to make my life look like it is not that boring. 1.What did you do this year that you’d never done before? We had a wedding. I started a new career as indie developer, bootstrapped Boring Design I moved from Hangzhou to Vancouver. I started to learn web 3 systematically. 2. Did you keep…
This is the first weekly recap in 2025. I can not control myself from making new year resolutions, but I know that’s meaningless. Recently I can not wake up on time, I am not sure whether it’s because of the lack of sleep or the lack of motivation. 😮💨 I read xuanwo’s blog 2024 Review - 40 questions to myself , I think I will also do a review of 2024 in the week.
Developer Experience (DX) Matters, especially for side projects, non-profitable open-source projects, and early staged bootstrapped business. I Can NOT Stop Working on Day Job Recently, when I have extra energy after day job, I noticed that I prefer to spend time on my day job project, then the open source project, and finally the side project. But hold on, I have already completed the planned…
I do NOT like message recall/replacement. I prefer to NOT use it during online conversations, for both personal and work-related sessions. Recall or replacement messages encourage people to avoid taking responsibility for their words. It’s like saying, “I can say whatever I want, and if I regret it, I can just take it back.” It’s a way to avoid the consequences of our…
1 ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. Professional Stuff I take a review about products built by Boring Design: EasyDevo, Free, https://easydevo.boringboring.design/ , clean my mac but for developers, majorly focus on cleaning javascript node_modules, rust targets, golang build cache, and xcode build cache. Haye, Paid with subscription, https://haye.ai/ , an in-context AI assistant for MacOS. It could be triggered by…
Professional Stuff Introduced Curosr to My Wife Cursor is an AI powered IDE, based on VSCode. The major difference is that it can provide more tight integration with the codebase, like asking questions with @codebase , also it has a “composer mode” which could help modify files in a more structured way with the diff view. It extremely likes a pair programming colleague, but I am always…
I always make a list about the topics I am most interested in during KubeCon. Here is my list for KubeCon NA 2024. Parts of them already have slides, we could watch them before the conference. And later I will update my comments/reviews on each topic. Talks All Your Routes Are Ready, More or Less - Dave Protasowski When Life Gives You Containers, Make an Open Source RDS: A Kubernetes Love Story -…
I did not feel something special in this week, so just some quick reviews and updates. Professional Stuff Bring macOS native module to electron with NAPI-RS and swift-bridge TLDR; Build browser webpage, or build native app. Electron/Tauri/Wails is not the best choice for desktop app, unless cross-platform is a must also the app do not ask for tightly system integration and you do not care about…
Passion or Profession Last week I completed 虚伪的真心话 ( 超思考 )by 北野武( Takeshi Kitano ). Takeshi Kitano is a famous Japanese comedian, actor, and film director, and he is of the same age as people from my grandparents generation. I am an east-asian, and I think China, Japan, and Korea are the three countries that have much similarity in their culture and history. So recently days I have been reading…
Background In the last 3 weeks, we just turned the personal Apple Developer membership into a organization membership, also changed the name as “Boring Design LLC”. I am working on replace old certificates and with new ones. I just realized that I nearly forgot how to get the new certificates for electron app signing, so here is a cheat sheet for that, maybe it will help me again in…
Long time no see! Half years passed since my last weekly recap. Lots of things happened in the last 7 months, and I think it’s time to get a quick update on my life. Professional Stuff I changed my job 2 times, from Limit Labs to RSS3 , and now, GitRoll . I would not like to the comparison between these companies, but the one same thing I could feel is business is hard, and its really hard…
The Background In the last few weeks, Caicai and me are working on the product, Haye AI , which is an in-context AI assistant. We dedicated our part time to this product, and we are following the fancy ideas and state-of-the-art technologies to make it better. And days ago, Meta released llama 3, which really changed something. The New Open Source Model: LLaMA 3 LLaMA 3 is really impressive in…
BTW: 这是使用 Haye AI 的翻译功能翻译的. 背景 在过去的几周里，我和 Caicai 一起致力于开发产品 Haye AI ，这是一个上下文感知的人工智能助手。 我们抽出业余时间来开发这个产品，并且我们一直追随着时髦的想法和最先进的技术，以使其变得更好。 几天前，Meta 发布了 llama 3，这真的改变了一些东西。 新的开源模型：LLaMA 3 LLaMA 3在各个方面都非常令人印象深刻： 它支持多种语言的回复，比如中文。（但有时它会用拼音回复，而且有些单词仍然是英文。） 总体表现比 LLaMA 2 要好得多，接近GPT 4 一些在线 API 提供商以极低的成本和快速的响应速度提供 llama 3，使其成为目前最具性价比的 AI 模型。 我们过去通常使用 gpt-3.5-turbo 作为大多数任务的主要模型，配合一些预定义的预设。我花了很多时间修改 playground…
Long time no see. I was too busy to write the weekly recap in the last 4 weeks. I was too busy to do anything else. 😅 I just accumulated enough energy and wills to write this post, even it’s already 1 am. Our family would face lots of changes in 2024, so I think it worth to record the current status of my life. Maybe 6 months later, I would read this post and think “Oh, that was…
Okay, that started. Okay. This is the second time that I am trying to use voice recording with speech to text, technology to writing my blog. And if you found something, something is weird because, you know, this is speech to text. So there is not 100% accuracy. I have thought about my life, my career, my income and my future plan. I still have no clear things to chase, or I did not get a really…
So, I haven’t updated my post for about three or four months. One reason is that I’ve discovered once I have an opportunity to focus on something, it’s really challenging to find enough time to write it down. I’ve realized that it’s very difficult to consistently maintain high energy levels. Moreover, it’s really tough to complete building products in a short…
Overview This blog records the time span from 2023-09-18 to 2023-10-01. Professional Stuff Rebuild My LinkedIn Profile Several month ago, I tried to migrate my LinkedIn Profile from China to US, but I account got banned after merge these two accounts. 哦豁.... https://t.co/3xdWzv0e9V pic.twitter.com/xRdvjIM9KX — STRRL.gpt (@strrlthedev) April 20, 2023 I lost about all the 300 connections, also…
Overview It takes me too long time to write blogs, so I decided to use another way to write posts. I would allocate 30 minutes to write a post, and I would not care about the quality of the post, just write it down. If I found that the quality is not good enough, or there are no more time to express thoughts, I would use other tricks to make it better in next time . Professional Stuff Build a…
Last Post: Gap Year Wrapped - Timeline Timeline I’m so excited to continue recording my gap year life the second part. Let’s start it. February 2023 My major in the university is Digital Media TechKnowledge, so a lot of my university classmates works in Gaming Area like NetEase, Tencent, BiliBili and miHoYo. And actually I am also a hard-core gamer for most kind of games and I still…
About Me Hi! I am Zhiqiang. I am a full-stack software engineer majoring in cloud computing area. I am the maintainer of Chaos Mesh , also I am enthusiastic in any kind of open source software. On August 31th 2022, I left my job at PingCAP and started my gap year. I will write a series of posts to review my gap year. Fortunately, I have history weekly-recap posts , although it definitely less…
Honestly, I do not know I have to grant that the gap-year would really consume the ambitions. On the days I just left the PingCAP, I sent lots of resumes to companies to get a job, even I have some unrealistic dreams that I (we) build a new start-up based on Chaos Mesh. But now, what I want is only having a good sleep everyday, then enjoying everything that I do. Rather than call it…
Overview It’s so awkward that I still no back to the regular weekly recap. 😅 And there are still no many things recorded in Journal since last weekly recap written. Professional Stuff New way to build User Interface: Chat Bot I always stuck with drawing UI. I have made some bad UI design like these: I was struggling with the UI design, the layout, typography, color, animation, etc. Until…
In last few weeks since I completed the TOEFL test, I do not learn English anymore. And I also break the plan in gym with the coach. I am avoiding the potential things that makes me unhappy, but it is the thing makes me unhappy in the long term. Anxious people live in the future, regretful people live in the past. I DO live in present, I fell happy, but I am fear about the future. Recently I only…
Overview I want to back to write the weekly recap regularly. No need content-rich post, just record what happened. Professional Stuff Project Benefit on KubeCon: Maintainer Track and Kiosk We (Chaos Mesh Maintainers) have submitted the application form for Maintainer Track and Offline Booth(Kiosk) on KubeCon China 2023 in Shanghai. If everything goes well, we would have a presentation and a…
Overview This is the weekly recap post spans from May 21 to June 16, 2023. This post might be longer than usual, because I do NOT spend much time on preparing language tests. 🤡 Instead, I spent lots of time on social activities and playing video games. 😅 So there are lots of things to write down. Actually, I’m almost exhausted just listing these things on titles. 😵 Here we go.…
This post was assisted by ChatGPT and Grammarly. Introduction Today, more and more teams are adopting cloud computing and cloud native technologies. However, exposing applications to the Internet is still a challenge. We should always consider the security, scalability, also performance of the solution. And the complexity from different cloud providers makes it even harder, tons of products and…
这篇文章是由Notion AI协助完成的. 你可能已经注意到了, 我博客上的所有图片都是从 webp.strrl.dev 加载的.那么, 它到底是什么呢? 我的故事 我在 strrl.dev 上写作和发布文章.为了使故事更加生动有趣, 我经常包含图片、画布或贴纸. 然而, 我的手机上的原始图片可能有几兆字节大小.此外, 我有时会录制GIF来介绍交互, 这也可能导致文件大小过大的问题. Nova告诉我他们提供的一项服务可以作为中间层来缩小图像大小. 什么是 WebP Cloud Services? 这是一项云服务, 可以通过提供现代图像格式的图片来加速网站的加载时间. WebP Cloud Services 可以在哪些地方使用? 这项服务可以用于任何关心以下问题的网站： 加载速度, 和/或 减少网络数据流量使用. 为什么使用 WebP Cloud Services?…
This post was assisted by Notion AI. You may have noticed that all images on my blog load from webp.strrl.dev. So, what exactly is that? My Story I write and publish posts on strrl.dev . To make the stories more vivid and interesting, I always include images, canvases, or stickers. However, the original images from my phone can be several megabytes in size. Additionally, I sometimes record GIFs to…
Overview This is another so-called weekly recap but is actually updated monthly. 😅 Things were coming continuously and never stopped in the last few days, and there are not so much dedicated time for coding and building stuff. That’s seriously bad. I would try to back to the work-life pattern before the Labor Day Holidays, and try to make plans and trace them. The lifestyle “just…
The ordinary days that we live in may, in fact, be a series of miracles. The reason why I make such an exclamation is that in the past several weeks, my mood really turned a lot, from depressed to relaxed, from anxiety to calm down. We(my girlfriend and I) also completed tons of things on our plan, and these things were completed in a tight schedule. It seems all the things were followed one by…
Overview Professional Stuff Chaos Mesh presentation on KubeCon 2023 EU Due to diverted personal priorities, we were not able to prepare the Maintainer track in time for Kubecon EU. Several weeks a go, Saiyam noticed that and he wanted to schedule a presentation for Chaos Mesh, and it was already pass the deadline of CFP. Saiyam encouraged us sending the email to the “CNCF Events” and…
Overview This weekly recap spans from February 22nd to February 26th, 2023. You might notice that I changed the name of this series from “Weekly Report” to “Weekly Recap.” I was inspired by yuchanns’s weekly recap . “Weekly Report” would make me feel stressed because I used to have to write a weekly report for my previous jobs. “Weekly Recap”…
Overview The weekly report is from January 31st to February 21th, 2023. I decided to write the weekly report series in English because I want to improve my English skill. Not just for writing but primarily for getting familiar with English words and phrases. That’s also why I delayed this blog for a few weeks. I was using Grammarly when I wrote the blog, and spent too much time embellishing…
这里又是一份周报, 时间范围是 2023-01-16 到 2023-01-30 , 会记录一些工作及生活上有意思的事情. 上周因为过年太过于舒服所以鸽了. 代码/计算机相关 绝妙的主意: 编程 + 游戏成就 ref: https://twitter.com/strrlthedev/status/1614859527421308928 算是一个交叉应用? 但是我之前木有接触过太多 IDE 插件的制作, 不知道有什么 HOOK 可以放进去. 也没太想好玩家的数据放到哪里, 公开还是私有, 如何反作弊 / 公平性. 趣味性, 功能性挺好的, 只是细节上还是有蛮多要考虑的. 生活相关 和 pseudoyu 面基 年关里和 pseudoyu 面基了. 哥哥是个文雅的帅哥, 我像个巨魔. 😅 聊了一些关于 web 3, 云, 以及 web 3 的事情, 果然不一样的人经历有不一样的精彩! 而后…
这里又是一份周报, 时间范围是 2023-01-09 到 2023-01-15 , 会记录一些工作及生活上有意思的事情. 代码/计算机相关 有趣的工具: lnav 从推友那里得知了一个有趣的工具: lnav . ref: https://twitter.com/AFutureD/status/1612297761357189121 这是一个强大的命令行工具, 主要是用来花式查看/统计/分析日志的. 有了它, 你可以做到: 同时在一个视图/多个视图中查看多个日志文件/日志流 高亮日志中的 JSON / XML 内容 统计日志的频率, error, warning, info 等级别的频率 将日志作为数据源, 使用 sql 语句进行查询/统计/分析 而且最近就直接用上了: chaos mesh 的 make 命令性能比较差, 想 profile 一下到底是哪里慢了. 但是 make 不像…
这里又是一份周报, 时间范围是 2023-01-02 到 2023-01-08 , 会记录一些工作及生活上有意思的事情. 代码/计算机相关 尝试了区块链上自动交易做套利 上段时间不知道为什么魔怔了, 开始想通过自动交易赚钱. 于是就开始了这个尝试. 结果是没啥完成啥利润, 然后成本付出了大约 $60 的样子. 想要盈利不仅需要分析和 coding, 还得需要一些领域内的经验 不过在纯工程上来说, 研究套利还是蛮有意思的: 从假设到实现, 从参考其他的人的行为, 加上文档和参考, 写出自己的实现 通过理论, 代码逻辑和统计, 推算利润区间 一点点优化合约代码, 减少 gas fee 使用 pprof 与 opentelemery 做 profiling, 优化性能 正在写一篇相关的文章准备详细介绍做了啥事, 过一段时间能够写完吧. 生活相关 新冠恢复期 上周是在新冠恢复后的第二周,…
这里是鸽了将近 2 个月周报, 顺便是年终总结. 2022 年 周报 从 2022 年的 1 月 29 日起开始写第一篇周报, 到现在断断续续写了 42 篇周报. 其实当时写周报的时候就已经预感到了会有这一天到来, 读着自己之前写的周报, 再回想一下当时的心境, 是一种什么样的体验. 变无业 我于 2022 年 8 月 31 日从 PingCAP 离职了, 离职的原因嘛, 也在 2022-27: 找新坑 这篇文章里提及了. 后来面了若干家公司, 也拿到了一些 Offer, 甚至工资算下来能够有 30% - 50% 的涨幅, 但是最终还是选择没有接下任何一家公司的 Offer, 而是期望在一个看上去更"不错"的方向里. 感谢帮助我内推的朋友们, 也非常感谢猎头 Danny 给我介绍了很多好机会. 用 Chaos Mesh 这个产品去创业. 当然后来发展逐渐变得差了起来,…
这里又是一份周报, 时间范围是 2022-11-02 开始 到 2022-11-08 , 会记录一些工作及生活上有意思的事情. 工作/代码/计算机相关 Chaos Mesh ARM 物理机喜提升杯 最近收到一封邮件, 说是 Equinix Metal 的机房设备升级, 之前 Chaos Mesh 用的 c2.large.arm 实例需要被铲, 询问了下, 可以直接升级到 c3.large.arm64 . 机器的配置有了整体的提升: 另外我也估算了下目前手上的存储资源, 全部大约有 1.4 TiB 可用, 平均分布 3 副本也有 480 GiB 可用, 对于跑 Prow bot 看上去相当够了. GitHub API GraphQL vs REST 之前写了个统计 GitHub Action 失败率的小应用嘛: https://github.com/STRRL/gha-ci-grid ,…
这里又是一份周报, 时间范围是 不知道什么时候开始 到 2022-11-01 , 会记录一些工作及生活上有意思的事情. 工作/代码/计算机相关 看 KUBECON NA 2022 这次的 KUBECON 又有好多内容感兴趣, 关于我的观后感, 记录在这里了: https://www.notion.so/strrl/KUBECON-22-NA-c39e92e4277d4aa2b4d1cf45077a86a6 买了些新设备 AirPods Pro 2, 很不幸, AirPods Pro 泡洗衣机了洗了, 它没有撑过来, 被迫买了新款. 好心疼. Windows Dev Kit 2023, 微软新出的开发者主机, 高通骁龙的计算平台, 4 大核 4 小核, 32G 内存, ¥4488, 比 mac mini 实惠. 但是目前还没法装 Linux. 有潜力成为最好的 arm64 linux…
这里又是一份周报, 时间范围是 2022-10-13 到 2022-10-19 , 会记录一些工作及生活上有意思的事情. 工作/代码/计算机相关 Nand2Tetris 没做. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 几次想尝试开始但是都去做别的玩具了. Google UX 没看. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 最近 rust 上手了 好! 生活相关 爬山上瘾 发现身体状态的提升会上瘾的, 现在在附近的地方爬山, 来回都从山里走, 总爬升差不多 400m, 非常舒服! 玩了一把泄漏的 NovelAI 网上找了个懒人整合包, 跑起来以后发现自己脑子里根本没有啥关键词. 也没画出啥可爱的东西. 不够涩!
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