Computing Life

• PhD阶段的一个很大的经验教训是，很多事情都很难，需要付出很多精力才能取得一点点成就和别人的承认。所以一方面需要耐心再耐心，慢慢打怪练级，一 …

Can a node.js/express.js web app update itself from a github repo? (i.e. whenever we do a git push to github, the server side will also use git pull to update itself)

It's possible thanks to the powerful WebHook of github.

The basic idea is, to use …

I was reading the book "The power of habit" recently and got some inspirations. This is not a summary of the book, but more like a narration from my point of view.

Basically the book is about how to take advantage of a thing named "habit", which is defied as …

• 所谓麻利和急躁的差别在于，麻利的人知道中间可能会出什么问题，征兆是什么，从而时刻检测有没有这样的征兆。而急躁 …

After moving the compiler implementation of our Beamer Writer to node.js, we are able to provide more features than our old version (which used client-side javascript).

• One of them is directly exporting (as well as compiling) the LaTeX code on writelatex.com. The usage is straightforward. Like before, after …