Notes
Short working notes about blogging, analytics, automation, hardware, and online income.
What YouTube Means to Regular People
The Ordinary Person Just stick to WeChat or Douyin ecosystems. One public account, one short video channel. Earn pocket change for the coffee from WeChat's...
Things You Should Know Before Using YouTube
Buying Up and Purchasing Channels First, a disclaimer: I do not sell channels nor engage in artificial view stacking. Getting your YouTube channel approved...
Devices and Video Formats Used on YouTube
Spoken Word and Vlogs On any video platform, the two most fundamental formats are: 1. Spoken Word : 2. Vlogs Both require appearing on camera to practice...
Should You Show Your Face on YouTube?
The Verdict First 90% of high-performing videos require showing your face. Exceptions include: food vlogs, DIY tutorials, and some AMSR (Amazon...
Which YouTube niche and language should I choose?
First, Language The most convenient option is your native language. English offers a broader audience and higher CPM (cost per mille). Other languages...
VPS Server Constantly Infected with Viruses
Always Getting Infected Completely don't know where this virus came from, it just inexplicably infected me. Currently, I can only rely on AI for scanning...
Digital Nomads, Freelancing, and Passive Income
I've quit my job. After working for a few days, the factory ran 12 hours a day without a second's pause. There was no time to drink water or eat, and I had...
Blogging and Social Media Tips and Strategies
Test Social media is free; you just need to continuously create content and test data analysis. Even if it gets 0 views, it doesn't matter; this is also a...
Blog and Social Media Data Analysis and Comparison
Social Media Yesterday I started updating my WordPress blog, because I plan to use it and social media to compare data for the same articles. Yesterday's...
Blog Post-Mortem: My Blog Was Deleted Because I Forgot to Renew
Everything Happens for a Reason A few days ago, I had a fever and a cold that lasted a week. I lay in bed, unable to deal with anything, my head feeling...
Unreliable Cloud Services, My Blog Is Down Again
My self-hosted WordPress blog It's constantly having problems, I'm seriously fed up. Today I found the blog can't be opened on my computer, though it works...
Short Videos, Written Content: Simple Methods for Fast Earnings
Value for Effort Always remember, long videos and articles are for yourself; they can hold a certain meaning. Short videos and image-text posts are for...
Reflections on Money, Technology, and Life
I'm too tired. So tired that I don't even have time to write a blog post, not even a single sentence. Because recently I found a job, working in an auto...
Test Blog Image
Test Image Image Test
App testing
app testing
Homelab: Workflow Backups, Game Recording, and Headless Mining GPUs
Data Backup Optimizing n8n workflows these past few days, the most obvious realization is that AI is an idiot. It can be very smart one moment and very...
Homelab: n8n Automated YouTube Earnings (Long-form YPP Video)
YPP Unlike automating a blog without Google Ads My YouTube channel has enabled YPP (YouTube Partner Program), so theoretically, as long as there's a...
Homelab: n8n - Automating Income: A Blog Experiment
N8n N8n can be installed in several ways. I installed it using Docker Compose on my cloud server. However, due to issues with my Windows system, I cannot...
ESP32 Enclosure and Pin Wiring Secured by Solder
Some Thoughts I've tried Home Assistant and ESPHome. But each time, I didn't use them for long because I couldn't find suitable enclosures. For example,...
The bar for earning income from YouTube, X, and Google is getting higher.
Latest Policies YouTube will change the YPP threshold from 4000 hours of watch time per year to 8000 hours in February 2027. This means the difficulty of...
Blog SEO, Social Media, and Search Engines
Social Media Originally, I planned to get traffic from Reddit and direct it to my blog. However, I found that it's very difficult to leave a URL on Reddit...
YouTube YPP: August 8th Earnings Data Anomalies & Delays for Some Users
Earnings Data Anomaly As you can see, earnings data has not been updated since August 8th. It has now been 4 days without data. Official Announcement An...
YouTube YPP: Earning Methods & Conditions Changing Soon
Changes to YPP Eligibility Requirements Accumulate 8,000 valid public watch hours in the past 365 days OR Accumulate 20 million valid Shorts views in the...
homelab: Installing and Using ESPHome with Python
ESPHome Installation First, Home Assistant allows ESPHome to be installed as an add-on. However, if your Home Assistant setup has poor performance, like my...
How to Install and Set Up WireGuard?
Install WireGuard Install WireGuard on Ubuntu Server After installation, check the WireGuard version Create Keys Generate Keys Both the cloud server and...
Homelab: ESP32 MQTT Relay Control for Timed Fish Tank Aeration
5V Relay Relay wiring can be complex. I purchased a single-channel 5V relay switch. An ESP32 is connected externally as a controller, and a battery serves...
Homelab: Booting Home Assistant on Orange Pi 3B with PVE
Orange Pi 3B 2GB Raspberry Pi 3B 1GB can install the Home Assistant system. Raspberry Pi 4B 2GB can also install the Home Assistant system. Similarly, the...
Homelab: From Old PCs to Mini PCs to ARM Dev Boards and ESP32
Professional Servers I envy those who own professional servers at home, such as the HP MicroServer Gen10. There's no need to meticulously calculate every...
homelab: Setting Up a Low-Power x86 Mini PC for Windows with WSL2 as a Docker Service
Low-Power Mini PC When discussing homelabs, I've noticed many online videos feature rack servers with an abundance of cores and massive memory. However,...
Homelab: Connecting to Local Windows Desktop with RustDesk
rustdesk GitHub Address: rustdesk Official Introduction An open-source remote desktop application, designed for self-hosting, as an alternative to...
Homelab: Testing and Using Docker on a Windows Host
Local Server Ever since Vultr cloud server unilaterally destroyed my five-year blog server, I no longer trust cloud servers. At that time, I didn't have...
Switching from AList to OpenList for Cloud Drive Mounting
alist After using alist for a few days, I finally configured Baidu Netdisk. I recall seeing posts on v2 about alist, seemingly concerning its closed-source...
How to View Single Astro.js Blog Post Analytics with Umami?
Data Analysis I need my Astro.js blog to have a backend management similar to WordPress. It should have a table to view the total visit data for current...
What's the best OS for Raspberry Pi Zero W?
Raspberry Pi Zero W I have a Raspberry Pi Zero W, and here's a breakdown of system choices. The Raspberry Pi Zero W uses: CPU: BCM2835 Architecture:...
The Low-Cost Hack: Raspberry Pi in 2026: Mastering PVE Virtualization, Edge AI, and Lightweight NAS – A Pitfall Guide
Raspberry Pi I have a few idle Raspberry Pis gathering dust at home, so I've compiled some Raspberry Pi projects. Home Assistant Let's start with...
Beelink EQ59 Mini PC: Setting up WSL2 and Ubuntu 24.04 Server for Docker RSS Deployment
Docker Desktop Issue Log Initially, I installed Docker Desktop on a mini PC running Windows. Installed Miniflux and RSSHub. Miniflux failed to install...
Deploying RSS and Other Feeds on a Mini PC Local Server
Mini PC Server Currently, one of my cloud VPS servers is due to expire in half a month. With only 2GB of RAM, it can no longer meet my current server...
AI on a Budget: Raspberry Pi, Old PCs, No GPU - A CPU-Only Approach
CPU This article primarily organizes local AI solutions that can run on CPU only. These can run on computers without graphics cards, old laptops, or...
Visual Content and API Settings for x
X Its original name was Twitter. I don't have the habit of posting short text-image updates, and I rarely check X or post on X. However, AI told me that...
Testing Blog Post URLs from a Browser
A test note for opening generated Astro blog URLs from the mobile app browser flow before manually sharing posts to X with rich preview cards.
Testing AI Blog Cover Generation and Auto-Publishing with Viral Cover Parameters
Cover Image Test You can write a blog post without accompanying images for the paragraph text. However, it needs a cover image that can instantly convey...
Openclaw and Automation
Automation Originally, I defined a few categories: One is Visualization One is Notification One is Automation Visualization refers to digital...
The Best Ways for Ordinary People to Make Money
Ordinary People A way that only requires a mobile phone to operate. No need to buy other physical goods or virtual services, such as domain names and...
Free Local AI Service Recommendations
Graphics Card My graphics card is a p100-100 6GB. It's a super old architecture chip graphics card that doesn't support new AI features. However, it...
Recommended Free AI Cloud Service Solutions
Preferred Mainstream Tech Giants What I use most often daily: One is the web version of ChatGPT. One is the client version of Codex. GPT is used for...
Free Website Solution Recommendations
Currently, there are two options One is Cloudflare Pages The other is GitHub Pages I highly recommend the first one because its ecosystem is more...
Planning further PaddleOCR integration for the mobile app.
ocr Whisper and Ollama have already been added to the phone, only PaddleOCR is missing. These three are all projects that are quite friendly for...
Enhancing App Note Module Functionality: Integrating Fast Whisper and Ollama
Adding Fast Whisper For speech-to-text I have already added Android's system voice and Android's Whisper offline edge AI local model. However, the AI...
App Testing Notes: Pushing and Publishing Tags
Development notes about sorting mobile app notes by update time, publishing Markdown to the blog, and improving tag workflows for better content...
I sold my GPU, so I can't really try AI locally anymore.
3060 12gb This was my previous graphics card, used for some AI convenience packages and daily tasks. Trying out the latest local large models, etc. But...
AI Solves Astro.js Upgrade Packaging Issue
A troubleshooting note about fixing an Astro.js upgrade and build packaging issue, then validating that remote mobile publishing works again.
Getting a used backup phone for my main phone
Used Phones Currently, all computers, phones, graphics cards, and electronic products are increasing in price. My current phone is no longer sufficient;...
Google Webmasters: All Indexed, No Ranking
0 Indexing Not a single article has been indexed. Currently, I've written about 70 articles on my blog, over approximately 2 months. At the beginning of...
How to make money with just your phone?
The Importance of Mobile Phones Mobile phones are the devices everyone carries with them at all times. Mobile operating systems are also among the...
I haven't updated my blog in a few days.
Musings I realized it's been many days since I last updated my blog. I originally planned to write on my computer, but I found that I no longer have...
My Mobile Blog Diary Entry
This Article Was Written on My Phone I've found that I can't write too much text at once because the voice-to-text conversion doesn't automatically wrap...
Blog Auto-Publishing Test Again
A short validation note for the automated blog publishing workflow, checking whether generated Markdown content can build and publish correctly.
Testing Asynchronous Queue and Timed Polling for Blog Auto-Publishing
A development note about using an asynchronous queue and timed polling to publish blog posts from a mobile app without blocking the user interface.
Mobile App Release Blog Automated Testing
A release test for packaging the mobile note app and confirming that blog posts can be published from the app with images and valid Markdown.
Automated Testing for Mobile App Blog Publishing
A mobile publishing workflow test for writing Markdown notes on a phone, attaching images, and pushing finished posts to an Astro blog.
Issues encountered when charging and inflating electric bicycle tires
Charger Green Light A red light indicates charging is in progress, while a green light means it is fully charged. However, recently, even when the...
Google Search Console Index Count Dropped to Zero
A note about a new blog losing visible Google indexing, possible causes, and practical steps for improving crawlability, content quality, and sitemap...
Amazon Affiliate Commissions and Bing Search Engine Indexing
Affiliate Program I signed up for the Amazon Affiliate Program today. For instance, if you need to purchase an ESP32, you can simply click the link to...
Bicycle Turn Signals and Cycling Accessories
Bicycle Turn Signals Electric scooters come equipped with turn signals, but bicycles typically do not—which isn't exactly safe. So, I did a quick search...
The Efficiency and Threats of AI
As Far As I Know Even with open-source code repositories—such as GitHub—where a single project might boast 10,000 stars or more, large corporations...
If I Were to Start Running a New Blog Again or Teach a Student This is What I Would Do
If I Were to Start Over It has been over 10 days since I set up this Astro-based blog site. If I were to do it all again, here is how I would proceed:...
Testing Whether The Article Cover Displays Correctly as a URL Link When Sharing a Blog Post to X
Cover Image Code Currently, the article cover image feature for X (formerly Twitter) is implemented by modifying the Astro framework, with assistance...
Submit URLs Individually via Google Search Console to Accelerate Crawling and Indexing Speeds
Individual URL Submission Open Google Search Console. Enter the URL you wish to submit into the search box located at the top of the page. For example:...
I Received My First Organic Blog Traffic from X
Umami Analytics Data Currently, I prefer checking my Umami analytics data; it is much simpler and clearer than Google Analytics. I noticed that my blog...
How Do We Establish Digital Assets That Transform Our Lives and How Can We Generate Income Through The Internet
Documenting the Thought Process It is difficult to strike a balance between pursuing one's personal interests and making money. I often find myself...
The Bing Website Administrator Backend is Finally Displaying Data Although The Data is 0
Bing Webmaster Data Today marks Day 7. The Bing Webmaster admin dashboard is finally displaying statistical data. That "48-hour" message did not match...
Add Google Analytics and Google Search Indexing Progress
Google Analytics Yesterday, I posted on Reddit asking how long it typically takes for search engines to index my articles. Today marks the sixth day,...
I Think The Google Webmaster Experience is Better Than Bing Webmaster
Google Search Console I submitted the verification request for Google Search Console three days ago at 6:00 PM (almost simultaneously with Bing...
Migrating Astro from Ssr to Ssg from Cloudflare Workers to Cloudflare Pages
Blog Access Limits Cloudflare Workers is indeed excellent, but it tracks your access counts and imposes a daily usage cap. If you are running a simple...