Sspai Newbie Report

Monday, May 20, 2024

What are my professional experiences?

Unconventional job-hopping path:

Traditional manufacturing, Lenovo Shenzhen Research Institute, first job entered a pension company, also the happiest time in my life, with plenty of money and leisure
Network equipment manufacturer, Huawei Wuhan Research Institute, got bored and joined this exhausting place, but learned a lot
Network security company, Qingteng Cloud Security, relied on previous work experience, work in the security industry was relatively relaxed, good WLB

Main development machine, self-configured Windows desktop, high hardware specs, best experience. Even when using other devices, I prefer to remote into this machine for development.
Portable laptops, one XiaoXin Pro 16-inch, one MacBook Pro 2018 13-inch. The MacBook Pro 2018 is the worst laptop I’ve ever used, abnormally hot with huge fan noise. Now only used for some macOS compilation and testing. In comparison, the Lenovo 16-inch has barely noticeable fan noise most of the time, and the 16-inch screen shows much more content.
Mini PC J4125, after various tinkering, installed Windows Server 2019, stable, power-efficient, and hassle-free. Deployed download/DNS/sharing services. VM running Home Assistant. In the past two years, no more tinkering with OS on physical machines, stability above all.
Phone, main device Mate 60 Pro, occasionally still use iPhone 11, low refresh rate is really hard to go back to.
Tablet, Vivo Pad 2, Vivo’s specs are decent, but the system is poorly made, bad experience, no system updates after purchase have improved the experience. iPad Pro 9.7 used for many years, lightweight and portable, just getting old with some lag.

Daily development uses VSCode, Copilot, Git, Docker and other standard dev tools, as well as unsharable network tools
On phone, mainly use XHS, Edge browser, WeChat Reading. Small screen not suitable for work, mainly for entertainment and info gathering.
V2EX is a forum, also a tool for me, usually post articles there first, fewer reviews, freer discussions, then publish to other communities after improvements.

Keyboard cleaning kit, rubber clay-like stuff, for cleaning keyboards, makes it like new after use
Charging port adapter, home charging pile besides EV cars, can also charge electric scooters

Comic Glass, a comic reader, iOS app for reading comics, doesn’t provide resources, mainly after self-hosting service, to read self-downloaded collections.

Lightsail, absolutely indispensable
Copilot, $10 price, use it every day. Wife is also a programmer, use together, saves us a lot of time
WeChat Reading, reading is a habit, also an investment
Yike Album, used Google Photos before, but limited space, as photos/videos grow, Baidu’s price advantage is obvious
Bilibili VIP, TV only watch Bilibili
NetEase Cloud Music, with headphones for more immersive work
Aliyun ECS, for deploying some services, dreams are still necessary