Ben Chuanlong Du's Blog

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Recommendation of Credit Card Usage

Things on this page are fragmentary and immature notes/thoughts of the author. Please read with your own judgement!

Tips and Traps

  1. Avoid AMEX as it is nutorious for closing many customers' credit cards without valid reasons.

  2. Costco is a wholesale. It is not considered as a grocery or supermarket …

GCP Compute Engine VM Instances

Things on this page are fragmentary and immature notes/thoughts of the author. Please read with your own judgement!

GCP

GCP c2 and c3 VMs are good choices according to performance per price. It's even cheaper than customized VM types with reduced memories! GCP c2 VMs are compute optimized and …

Manage Python Projects Using uv

Things on this page are fragmentary and immature notes/thoughts of the author. Please read with your own judgement!

Installation

curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh

curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | env UV_INSTALL_DIR="/usr/local/bin" sh

Usage

  1. Migrate from other Python projects to …

Tips on JavaScript

Things on this page are fragmentary and immature notes/thoughts of the author. Please read with your own judgement!

The State of Frontend in 2022 has a good discussion about the state and trend of frontend technologies as of 2022.

JavaScript Runtimes

  1. Node.js is a JavaScript runtime environment outside …