2024.04.22 - The mini program made by Kid Bro and Kid Sis, I'm impressed!

Title: 2024.04.22 – The Mini‑Program Made by “Kid Brother” and “Kid Sister,” I’m Impressed!

Roblox Values & Llama 3 & 今心为念 & 20‑Minute Park

This Week’s Hot Topics

The mini‑program made by “Kid Brother” and “Kid Sister,” I’m impressed! https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/BjN_EknwSGBNVn5VHw9fJg
Under the guidance of building a strong education nation, the trend toward overly utilitarian education is rapidly being reversed. Society doesn’t need people who only know how to “cram for tests”; it needs individuals who develop morally, intellectually, physically, aesthetically, and labor‑wise, who can solve problems, adapt, be competent, and create, and who can live calmly and happily. This is what parents and teachers hope to see. The children participating in the mini‑program coding competition are cultivating these abilities through competition, collaboration, and creation.

The invisible seafaring industry that keeps the internet afloat https://www.theverge.com/c/24070570/internet-cables-undersea-deep-repair-ships
The internet is carried around the world by hundreds of thousands of miles of slender cables that sit at the bottom of the ocean. But thanks to a secretive global network of ships on standby, every broken cable is quickly fixed. This is the story of the people who repair the world’s most important infrastructure. Related: 10x is easier than 2x by Benjamin Hardy – my notes.

My Framework for 10x Productivity https://blog.prototypr.io/my-framework-for-10x-productivity-193bad08ca95
Staying productive is challenging when we are missing purpose. But everyone gets a bit lost once in a while. Here’s my approach to seamless work ethics and delivery.

Roblox Values and Principles https://blog.roblox.com/2024/04/roblox-values-principles/
Today we’re sharing the latest update to these principles. Thank you to everyone in the company who provided input and helped refine these over the past several months. Our values are at the core of everything we do – from how we run the business, to the builders we hire, to the platform we have created.

Build the future of AI with Meta Llama 3 https://llama.meta.com/llama3/
Now available with both 8B and 70B pretrained and instruction‑tuned versions to support a wide range of applications. Related:

• How does ChatGPT work? As explained by the ChatGPT team.
• AI isn’t useless. But is it worth it?
• The ethics of advanced AI assistants

In‑Depth Reading

Flutter and Dart at Google Cloud Next https://medium.com/flutter/flutter-and-dart-at-google-cloud-next-b4921946d0d1
In case you missed it, the Flutter team attended Google Cloud Next for the first time this past week, a testament to Flutter’s growing impact within the development community. Related: Accessibility in Flutter on the Web.

Trip report: Node.js collaboration summit https://nodejs.org/en/blog/events/collab-summit-2024-london
About twice per year, Node.js contributors and community members get together in an unconference called the Node.js collaboration summit. At the summit, we share knowledge about the project and the ecosystem, brainstorm solutions to technical and non‑technical issues, make progress in decision‑making discussions, and push forward new initiatives.

Bridging Design and Code: The Power of Penpot’s CSS Grid Layout https://tympanus.net/codrops/2024/04/15/bridging-design-and-code-the-power-of-penpots-css-grid-layout/
Explore Penpot, the open‑source platform enhancing design and development teamwork, now featuring the CSS Grid Layout for even more powerful and efficient project creation.

Reverse‑engineering WeChat’s local database, decrypting chat records https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/693198253
WeChat stores chat logs locally in an SQLite database. To prevent easy theft, it wraps Tencent’s own WCDB framework (based on SQLCipher) for encryption. Exporting the chats requires extracting the encryption key—a goal of this brief guide.

Fresh Finds

The world’s fair of software: Join us at GitHub Universe 2024 Announcing the Neon Serverless Driver on JSR The align-content property for block layouts is now part of Baseline Upgrading jQuery: Working Towards a Healthy Web

Quill 2.0: Your powerful rich text editor Wedges: An open‑source collection of UI components for React. Hono: a small, simple, and ultrafast web framework for the Edges. Madge: Create graphs from your CommonJS, AMD or ES6 module dependencies.

Tesseract.js is a pure JavaScript port of the popular Tesseract OCR engine. React Query Builder: The Query Builder Component for React HyperFormula: An open‑source headless spreadsheet for business web apps Google Sheets as APIs: Turn your Google Sheets spreadsheets into powerful APIs

Products & Others

今心为念 – Inner‑Return‑Kǎn https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/ibzh6gN_7cdInbWEJTXcug
The character “念” combines today’s “今” (today) with a heart underneath, suggesting “today’s heart as thought.” Anything that is thought carries the heart, the mind’s contemplation. “坎离” (obstacle and separation) isn’t in the heart or kidneys; it’s “outside looking at things as separation.” “Inner‑return‑kǎn” means looking inward to see the obstacle. In a fleeting moment, the obstacle transforms.

If Your Product Is Great, It Doesn’t Need to Be the Best https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/VNN_RvLyl7zAqxO089iP4Q
If you’re creating a product, what three (or fewer) core features make it truly great and allow you to discard all the flashy extras? Can you devote 80 % of your effort to mastering those three things?

Why the “20‑Minute Park” Is Healing https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/wcxVPmDMGzh8NoDhxcE09w
The “20‑minute park effect” went viral this spring, originating from a magazine study that found spending a short, daily outdoor break—no exercise required—can bring relaxation. Even just 20 minutes in a park or any natural setting improves mental state.

People Among Plants https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/aVA9LpVukANZu_is0n0W7w
Chinese love tea for its aroma, flavor, and form, but ultimately for its “heart” (spirit).

LinYuan Group – Five‑Word One‑Sound Life‑Management Philosophy https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/fOWHu9xy2L9i_rTmIF1dHQ
Life is a long, fulfilling journey that requires adjusting one’s mindset at different stages and environments to meet challenges and opportunities. LinYuan Group founder & chairman Zhan Longhua distilled a “Five‑Word One‑Sound · Life‑Management View”: 敬 (respect), 静 (calm), 境 (realm), 镜 (mirror), 净 (purity), to inspire reflection on life and career.

Those Years, the Three Questions Teacher Liu Asked Me https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/Ob_BK3RIlEIVvcJ-Kg0v3A
Why did you come to the academy? What do you carry in your bag? What have you let go of?

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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.