My Heart Beats for U: Visualizing Heart Rate in Grafana
Periodically syncing heart-rate data from Apple Health to a server and visualizing it in Grafana provides an intuitive way to monitor it. Health Auto Export sends the data to an HTTP endpoint through its REST API automation, the server stores it in InfluxDB, and Grafana presents a clear dashboard for tracking and analyzing personal heart-rate changes.
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Resolving Type Name and Variable Name Ambiguity in Parsing
Distinguishing user-defined type names from ordinary variables is a challenge during parsing. A statement such as `a*b;` can be either an arithmetic expression or a declaration. Grammar rules, especially those involving type specifiers, can misidentify variables as types, affecting correctness and readability. The prevalence of declarations without initializers makes this ambiguity especially common.
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Routing Selected VPS Traffic Through WARP over IPv6
A Telegram notification on an ordinary afternoon introduced a tempting VPS deal: a direct China Telecom CN2 route and 2.5G bandwidth. The plan includes IPv6, useful for unlocking streaming services, but not every connection needs to go through WARP. My previous script was convenient, yet its effects on speed and traffic routing called for a more flexible solution.
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Adding a Microblog to VitePress
A microblog lets you share short thoughts whenever they occur, without the overhead of publishing a full static-blog post. This implementation uses Cloudflare Workers for the backend and KV for storage and management. A Vue component embedded in VitePress displays the updates, adding a lively, interactive element to the blog.
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Transparent Proxying and Traffic Routing with OPNsense
OPNsense is an open-source firewall and router with an attractive interface and a comprehensive feature set. After trying several routing setups, I came to appreciate its potential for transparent proxying and traffic routing. Combining it with BGP-based routing offers better security and stability, while its automatically updated IP lists make network management more convenient.
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More Accurate Routing for Chinese and Overseas IPs with BGP
BGP-based routing for Chinese and overseas IPs makes transparent proxying more efficient and accurate. Marking overseas destinations with FakeIP lets the main router route traffic more intelligently for smoother connectivity. The sing-box DNS configuration is also refined to handle queries more flexibly and efficiently, improving the overall network experience.
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Working at ByteDance for Three Years and Staying Somewhat Sane Is Not Entirely Impossible
Three years at ByteDance have made time feel strangely accelerated. Amid the changes, I have still managed to hold on to some mental balance. Looking back at the new graduate gazing at distant mountains from the balcony of our Hangzhou office, I can trace how curiosity, workplace challenges, and shifting expectations taught me to find a rhythm of my own.
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My Journey with Chronic Gastritis
Chronic gastritis has been a long, uneven journey: stomach trouble throughout childhood, a surprising reprieve at university, then a return of symptoms after years of late nights and drinking. Frequent nausea and reflux eventually became too much to live with. After repeated examinations and some reflection, I finally began taking the recovery process seriously.
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Routing Transparent Proxy Traffic with FakeIP
This FakeIP-based transparent proxy design addresses the single point of failure, poor performance, and awkward port forwarding of a traditional side router. Switching to the sing-box proxy core improves forwarding performance and simplifies configuration, with broader protocol support and better optimization than the previous Clash setup. Clash can implement the same design, but sing-box provides a flexible alternative.
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Fixing Port Forwarding with a Side Router
Port forwarding on the main router often stops working when a side router is introduced. Setting the side router as the gateway changes the forwarding path, breaking mappings that previously relied on the main router. A gateway translates addresses and forwards traffic from the internal network to the outside, and each internal device needs one to communicate externally. Understanding this mechanism helps explain how to fix the forwarding problem.
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