🐉 Why is Jin Yong's novel called "Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils"?

The answer involves Buddhist mythology, supernatural beings, and brilliant symbolism.

Let me explain 天龙八部 (Tiānlóng Bābù) 🧵

Did you know there's a Chinese beverage chain with more outlets than McDonald’s? 🍟

Meet Mixue—a brand you probably never heard of, but Zhang Hongchao's story is incredible:

- Failed motorcycle repair
- Failed fish farming
- Ice cart demolished 4 times
- Kept selling RMB 1 ($0.4) ice cream anyway

Did you know a Chinese ice cream chain has more outlets than McDonald's? 🤯

You probably never heard of Mixue, but Zhang Hongchao's story is wild:

❌ Failed motorcycle repair
❌ Failed fish farming
❌ Ice cart demolished 4 times
✅ Never gave up on ¥1 ice cream

Today: 36,000 stores, RMB 15B revenue

One of those typefaces that makes me want to design something just to have an excuse to use it

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A HBR study found that 67% of professionals admit their daily habits are holding them back from success. But what if I told you the answer isn’t working harder—it’s working smarter?

When you don’t deliberately cultivate good habits, nature abhors a vacuum—bad ones rush in to fill the space.

In just 10 days, an AI chatbot most Westerners have never heard of has done something remarkable: dominance of China's digital landscape. Tencent's Yuanbao has claimed the throne as the #1 most downloaded free app in Apple's App Store in China, pushing DeepSeek to #2 and ByteDance's Doubao to #4.

Oracle justified its JavaScript trademark by claiming Node.js — now it wants that ignored
#FreeJavaScript

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I planned for a long-overdue overhaul and hunkered down to get it across the line before the year ended as promised. This is just a start. Diving into my trove of draft articles and putting them out as-is without worrying about polishing the content.

What a year for Astro! 2024 convinced me to start moving projects to Astro. Excited to 2025.

Perfect is the enemy of done. Embracing 80% as good enough to ship.

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I implemented backlinks into my @astro.build digital garden.

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#WebDev #DigitalGarden #PKM

How AI became my dev partner. I shared about how Cursor AI supercharged my site migration. Here’s a deep dive into my experiment with what is probably the biggest thing in the developer industry this year.

Meet the new astro.new.
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Just migrated my entire website to Astro with Cursor AI as my co-pilot. Was it reckless to let AI work on a key digital property? Probably, especially when it actually involved merging three WordPress sites on the domain into one.

Was it worth it? Without a doubt.

A little late to the now page movement. I’ve been meaning to get the now page done. Finally got it out while I was polishing the site design.

Did some housekeeping over at jenxi.com/about/

Milestone unlocked. Aiming for the minimum of 1 lesson a day compounds over the years. Duolingo is my most consistent habit, along with daily reading.

Aim to read the minimum of 1 minute a day and you’ll find you’re reading the whole chapter or more on normal days.