2023.09.11 - Mao Zedong's View on Struggle

Title: 2023.09.11 – Mao Zedong’s View of Struggle

Bun 1.0 & Small Web & Understanding Traditional Chinese Medicine & Village Coffee & “Learn from the People”

This Week’s Highlights

Bun 1.0 https://bun.sh/blog/bun-v1.0
Bun is a fast, all‑in‑one toolkit for running, building, testing, and debugging JavaScript and TypeScript, from a single file to a full‑stack application. Today, Bun is stable and production‑ready. Related: Announcing Biome: the official fork of Rome and it will continue to be Rome’s legacy.

Kagi Small Web https://blog.kagi.com/small-web
As part of our ongoing pursuit to humanize the web, we are pleased to announce the launch of Kagi Small Web. While there is no single definition, “small web” typically refers to the non‑commercial part of the web, crafted by individuals to express themselves or share knowledge without seeking any financial gain.

All the Things That Don’t Make You a Great Software Developer https://spin.atomicobject.com/2023/09/09/great-software-developer/
The only things every great developer has in common and cannot be great without are:

• Taking pride in the work you do and how you do it.
• Being humble about your abilities and limitations.
• Having confidence in your ability to learn and grow.
• Empathy for other people.
• Never assuming that just because it runs on your computer, it’ll work in production.

Open source hooliganism and the TypeScript meltdown https://world.hey.com/dhh/open-source-hooliganism-and-the-typescript-meltdown-a474bfda
I've seen a lot of true believers argue for the virtues of their favorite paradigms and methods over the decades working in software. And mostly, I look at people with a passionate preference and smile. Isn't it great that people care so much about their craft that they volunteer to extol the benefits of their favorite tools! Yes it is, but there's also a fine line between being a passionate evangelist and becoming a dogmatic crusader.

How to build an enterprise LLM application: Lessons from GitHub Copilot https://github.blog/2023-09-06-how-to-build-an-enterprise-llm-application-lessons-from-github-copilot/
The team behind GitHub Copilot shares its lessons for building an LLM app that delivers value to both individuals and enterprise users at scale. Related:

• Computers are learning to decode the language of our minds
• Computers are learning to read our minds
• Can LLMs learn from a single example?
• Recursively summarizing enables long‑term dialogue memory in LLMs
• Squish Meets Structure: Designing with Language Models
• Everything you need to know about Airtable AI
• 25 biggest moments in Search, from helpful images to AI
• Arcadia: An end‑to‑end AI system performance simulator
• Retool AI: Build AI apps that work

In‑Depth Reading

cola: a text CRDT for real‑time collaborative editing https://nomad.foo/blog/cola
In this blog post I’ll talk about the theoretical background and the technical implementation of cola, a text CRDT for real‑time collaborative editing written in Rust. Reading this is not at all necessary to be able to use cola, so if that’s all you’re interested in you can safely skip this post and go straight to the documentation. Related:

• Plate: Build your rich‑text editor
• puck: The self‑hosted, drag‑and‑drop editor for React

My Node.js is a bit Rusty https://gal.hagever.com/posts/my-node-js-is-a-bit-rusty
Replacing an internal Node.js module with a native Rust module made a ×25 performance boost. Let’s understand why.

An Internet of PHP https://timotijhof.net/posts/2023/an-internet-of-php/
PHP is big. The trolls can proclaim its all‑but‑certain “death” until the cows come home, but no amount of heckling changes the fact that the Internet runs on PHP. The evidence is overwhelming. What follows is a loosely organised collection of precisely that evidence.

How Query Engines Work https://howqueryengineswork.com/
Since starting my first job in software engineering, I have been fascinated with databases and query languages. It seems almost magical to ask a computer a question and get meaningful data back efficiently. After many years of working as a generalist software developer and an end‑user of data technologies, I started working for a startup that threw me into the deep end of distributed database development. This is the book that I wish had existed when I started on this journey. Although this is only an introductory‑level book, I hope to demystify how query engines work.

Fresh Picks

• First Public Working Draft: CSS Transitions Level 2

• Deno KV is in Open Beta

• peaks.js: Browser‑based audio waveform visualisation

• Astro 3.0: The all‑in‑one web framework designed for speed.

• FormKit: The open‑source form framework for Vue

• math.js: An extensive math library for JavaScript and Node.js

• Node.js 20.6 Released with Built‑In Support for .env Files

• Everyone can code, everyone can create: The 8th Mobile Application Innovation Competition wraps up successfully

• OpenTF repository is now public

• HackYourNews – AI summaries of the top HN stories

Products & Others

Understanding Traditional Chinese Medicine can prevent many illnesses; health wisdom starts with what you eat https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/egCj92KdaORnqq3jp22xUQ
What does Western medicine use as a reference point when diagnosing disease? It relies on test indicators. Whether it’s a cold or another ailment, Western doctors must run examinations to determine what pathological changes have occurred. What does Traditional Chinese Medicine use as its reference? Heaven, Earth, and humanity—because TCM studies not the disease itself but the natural laws governing human life.

Why Zhejiang, a province that doesn’t produce coffee beans, has so many “village cafés” https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/LwvbV5obpkOconrTx95KVw
Compared with the hustle of city life, young people returning to their hometowns enjoy green hills, clear waters, and familiar dialects—an ideal environment for entrepreneurship. At the same time, increasingly supportive rural policies in Zhejiang attract this talent back. For example, Lishui City, after branding itself with “the whole city smells of coffee,” set a clear three‑year target to promote the coffee industry and offered cash subsidies to operators.

Open letter from a former UK police officer to the British Foreign Secretary: “Those who call China an enemy are the real enemies” https://baijiahao.baidu.com/s?id=1776327885968060251
What makes me stand out in the expatriate community in China is that I have cycled more than 30,000 km across the country and interacted with ordinary citizens. My wife and I have witnessed the progress made at the rural‑town level; people who have never seen such transformation in Chinese countryside cannot grasp these achievements. This experience has made me a steadfast supporter of China and its ruling party. I have never seen a governance model that emphasizes cooperation and consultation as much as China’s—allowing citizens to participate in governance and benefit from it, something Western democracy advocates find hard to imagine.

One must consciously “learn from the people” https://baijiahao.baidu.com/s?id=1776328859733308045
What the people worry about, I must keep in mind; what the people hope for, I must act upon. The nation is the people, and the people are the nation.

Mao Zedong’s View of Struggle https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/NotYKpboWbEQdu_M5cvx8g
“Rouse the millions of workers and peasants, unite and work together,” expresses Mao’s belief in hard, united, and perpetual struggle led by the people, as well as his willingness to sacrifice and fight selflessly for them. Struggle runs through Mao’s entire practice and is reflected in his poetry and writings. Additional links:

• Chairman Mao on the Chinese national spirit
• It’s 2023—why should we still commemorate Chairman Mao?
• [Zhao Min’s Remembrance—Commemorating Chairman Mao](https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/QyhSh4

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Originally written by Ping Xia (平侠) and published in Chinese on Web技术周刊 (Web Tech Weekly). Translated and adapted for DriftSeas with permission.