2023.11.27 - Sanhe Academy Sixth Cohort Tongyou Class Enrollment Brochure

Title: 2023.11.27 – Admissions Brochure for the 6th Cohort of the Sanhe Academy “Tongyou” Class

Valley of Code & Patterns of Distributed Systems & Zhongyong (The Doctrine of the Mean) & Chairman’s Congratulatory Letter & “Solid is Spiritual”

This Week’s Highlights

The Valley of Code https://thevalleyofcode.com/
The Valley of Code is a website whose goal is to help you become a Web Developer. The vision for The Valley of Code is to be a website you can always reference and use as “the place where you go learn quickly how to do X” in your day‑to‑day life as a developer. It’s composed of two parts: a free version and a pro, paid version. Both versions are continuously maintained and improved. By becoming a pro member you support the project, get access to the PRO lessons, and join a private Discord community. Related: An Interactive Guide to CSS Grid.

Introducing Major Improvements to Omnilingo https://blog.ipfs.tech/major-improvements-to-omnilingo/
The mission of Omnilingo is inspiring, and its authors are an incredible team who are tackling many hard problems at once, including new approaches to consent‑driven data access and revocation patterns. This is critical work and an extraordinarily important use of IPFS that we are happy to shine a light on.

The Foundations of the Frontend Cloud https://vercel.com/blog/the-foundations-of-the-frontend-cloud
Part 1 of the developer’s guide to a future‑proofed stack.

The Unbearable Weight of Massive JavaScript https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5felHJiACE
We live in a time of unprecedented opportunity to give our users a fantastic experience – the web platform has never been more capable than it is today. Let’s look at what we can achieve by simplifying our web architecture, utilizing new and upcoming Web Platform APIs, and getting back to building fast, maintainable, user‑friendly front‑ends.

Introducing Claude 2.1 https://www.anthropic.com/index/claude-2-1
Our latest model, Claude 2.1, is now available via API in our Console and powers our claude.ai chat experience. Claude 2.1 delivers advancements in key capabilities for enterprises—including an industry‑leading 200 K‑token context window, significant reductions in model hallucination, system prompts, and our new beta feature: tool use. We are also updating our pricing to improve cost efficiency for our customers across models. Related:

• Generative AI for Beginners
• Generative AI for Krita
• Introducing Stable Video Diffusion
• LM Studio: Discover, download, and run local LLMs
• AI Models in Software UI

In‑Depth Reading

How security and tenant isolation allow Deno Subhosting to run untrusted code securely https://deno.com/blog/subhosting-security-run-untrusted-code
Deno Subhosting offers the easiest and most secure way to extend your platform’s functionality by allowing third‑party developers to write and run custom code. For instance, Deno Subhosting powers Netlify’s edge functions so their users can do more with their sites.

Your Website’s URLs Can and Should Be Beautiful https://opuszine.us/posts/your-websites-urls-can-should-be-beautiful
Put simply, “pretty” URLs make your site more accessible and user‑friendly while also providing some SEO benefits. But even if your CMS is configured to create “pretty” URLs, you can still make them better — and more beautiful.

Patterns of Distributed Systems https://martinfowler.com/books/patterns-distributed.html
The final book contains thirty patterns, each illustrated with explanatory text, many with sequence diagrams to explain the complex interactions, and all with code samples that clarify the all‑important details. Understanding these patterns provides a solid foundation for grasping how distributed systems work.

Writing and Linting Python at Scale https://engineering.fb.com/2023/11/21/production-engineering/writing-linting-python-at-scale-meta/
On this episode of the Meta Tech Podcast, Meta engineer Pascal Hartig (@passy) is joined by Amethyst Reese, a production engineer at Meta, to discuss all things Python at Meta. They cover: how Meta’s Python Foundation Team improves the developer experience for everyone using Python at Meta; Fixit 2, Meta’s recently open‑sourced linter framework; and what exactly the role of a production engineer at Meta entails.

Extremely Open and Incredibly Close: Should You Go Open Source? https://evilmartians.com/chronicles/extremely-open-and-incredibly-close-should-you-go-open-source
Every founder building for developers, including those still only thinking about their future product, will inevitably consider this question: should their product be open‑sourced, and, if so—why?

Are Remote Workers More Productive? That’s the Wrong Question. https://stackoverflow.blog/2023/11/27/are-remote-workers-more-productive-that-s-the-wrong-question/
Plenty of workers prefer flexibility, regardless of what the research says.

Fresh Picks

State of JavaScript 2023 Vite 5.0 is out! Announcing TypeScript 5.3 CSS Animations with No‑Code React Scroll Parallax: React hooks and components to create parallax scroll effects for banners, images or any other DOM elements. Spreadsheet 2 – Composable, Declarative Spreadsheet Component Typist 2.2: Tiptap‑Based Rich Text Editor Component Pickcode: New Visual Language for Teaching Kids to Code

Products and Others

Understanding the Depth of Chairman Xi’s Congratulatory Letter from Three Angles https://baijiahao.baidu.com/s?id=1783585282947260005
A single flower blooming does not make spring; a garden of blossoms fills it with spring. Mutual cultural exchange is the only way to achieve shared progress. On March 15 2023, President Xi Jinping, at the high‑level dialogue between the Communist Party of China and world political parties, put forward the Global Civilization Initiative. He noted that today, with the destinies of nations tightly intertwined, the coexistence, tolerance, and exchange of different civilizations play an irreplaceable role in advancing human societal modernization and enriching the world’s garden of civilizations.

What’s the Difference Between Traditional Chinese Medicine and Western Medicine? https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/wI4O-9M-2ucrHFp2rb1dzg
Human normalcy and abnormality are judged against the qi of heaven and earth. All things form a single system; the human body is a small subsystem. Whether it functions normally depends on its alignment with the larger cosmic system. Illness is not a random label; it must be based on a single, unassailable standard.

How Confucius Practiced Zhongyong Himself https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/b5zP1G4Q88nwu-0pkUn4bw https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/QcdLU4eV2Cz0_FU-7K1EqQ
The Master said: “The virtue of Zhongyong (the Doctrine of the Mean) is supreme! The people have not practiced it for a long time.” In the Analects, this is the only explicit mention of Zhongyong, yet the methodology permeates the entire work. So what is Zhongyong? Song‑dynasty scholar Cheng Yi explained: “‘Zhong’ means not偏 (biased), ‘Yong’ means not易 (changeable).” People often misinterpret Zhongyong as a bland compromise—“pounding porridge, ignoring right and wrong, and beating everyone equally”—a stance Confucius vehemently opposed as provincial narrow‑mindedness.

“Lü Zu Heart Sutra”: All Things Are Born of Heaven, Only Humans Are Truly Spiritual; If Not Human, Then the Solid Is Spiritual! https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/eYeC_DYsMyHE_oTew9fyPg
All things are born of heaven; only humans are truly spiritual. If not human, the solid is spiritual. The heart is the ruler, the master of the body. It commands the hundred bones, directs the myriad emotions. Things lack inherent form; shapes lack inherent shape. Receiving from heaven, we possess innate knowledge and ability. When qi is bound by desire, truth is lost day by day. When the heart is lost, the body also collapses.

Sanhe Academy 6th Cohort “Tongyou” Class Admissions Brochure [https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/iHMnW

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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.