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The fourteenth article in Thirty Years in IT and Me. Around 2009, GitHub began turning open-source collaboration from mailing lists, patches, and project homepages into a more visible and social daily workflow. In the same year, Weibo appeared, and information streams started reshaping the Chinese internet.
The eleventh article in Thirty Years in IT and Me. In 2006, S3, EC2, Hadoop, Twitter, jQuery, and open-sourced Java pushed the internet into a new infrastructure stage. Servers were no longer only assets in machine rooms. They began to become capabilities that software could call, scale, and reorganize.
The tenth article in Thirty Years in IT and Me. In 2005, Web 2.0, YouTube, Google Maps, AJAX, Git, and open-source commercialization pushed software into the always-online era. Around those years, I also spent some time in Mountain View and saw the connection between the open-source world and Silicon Valley up close.
The ninth essay in Thirty Years in IT and Me. In 2004, Gmail, Firefox, Ubuntu, Facebook, Google's IPO, and MapReduce pushed the internet into a more complex stage. Inside a Linux company, Perl, PHP, Java, Shell, and early Python felt less like beliefs and more like tools within reach.
The eighth essay in Thirty Years in IT and Me. In 2003, SCO sued IBM, RHEL and Fedora took separate paths, and enterprise Linux kept moving forward. Free software and open source were no longer only ideals; they also had to face licenses, commercial support, and legal risk.
The seventh essay in Thirty Years in IT and Me. In 2002, Linux clearly moved from discs, forums, and idealism toward enterprise distributions, desktop experience, domestic software, and commercial support. My own experience was only one small angle inside that wave.
The sixth essay in Thirty Years in IT and Me. Around 2001, Linux was hot in China: distributions, technical magazines, communities, servers, and the imagination around domestic software intertwined. That line had actually been planted back in 1995, when I installed Slackware on a 386.
A practical look at how display, CPU, network, and background work affect battery life in Android reading apps, plus notes on native versus cross-platform choices and open-source reader projects.
A practical overview of Hermes Agent: installation notes, model setup, differences from OpenClaw, terminal versus dashboard workflows, channel support, migration, and common commands.
A practical record of building zipress from scratch: product requirements, Next.js plus FastAPI architecture, real Cursor prompts, user flow diagrams, uniform and mixed layout exports, deployment notes, and open-source repository.
An introduction to astro-to-wechat, a Python CLI extracted from the ZiCode blog workflow for turning Astro blog pages into WeChat Official Account drafts.
A reflection on using Cursor while working on www.zicode.com: writing posts, developing a WeChat draft sync script, reviewing agent history, polishing documentation, and extracting an open-source tool.