After a late-night return, Xiaoyan brought a familiar warmth back home. Because of the late night, I decided to rest well at noon instead of going to the gym.

The morning started slowly, with Hamer frustrated over missing socks, a moment I later reflected on.

At work, I focused on advancing the Earth 230 Tips project using automation APIs and app links, making significant progress throughout the day.

The evening brought a peaceful family moment—tidying up the house together while chatting and watching TV. Hamer also decided to step down from her leader role of distributing oral drops.

2024-12-25 TIL: GitHub Comment IDs and macOS Terminal Customization

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GitHub issue comment’s ID

To find a GitHub issue comment’s ID via the web interface:

• Navigate to the specific issue containing the comment.
• Hover over the timestamp near the commenter’s name. The URL will look like:
https://github.com/owner/repository/issues/issue_number#issuecomment-123456789.
• Alternatively, use browser developer tools to inspect the comment’s HTML element and locate the id attribute, which contains the comment ID.

Custom Headings in Issue Comments:

• GitHub’s web interface doesn’t support assigning custom id attributes directly to headings using Markdown.
• However, you can use HTML instead. For example, instead of using Markdown syntax like ## My Heading, use: <h2 id="my-heading">My Heading</h2>.

How To Customize Your macOS Terminal

• Setting a theme from Terminal > Preferences, drag the scheme/terminal/One Dark.terminal file into your Terminal Profiles list.
• Configure .bash_profile in the home directory via vim .bash_profile, then add source ~/.bash_prompt and source ~/.aliases.
• Configure .bash_prompt and .aliases.
  • If you are using zsh (check with echo $SHELL command), you could modify your terminal to open shell with a custom command with /bin/bash.

This Christmas morning, Hamer joyfully discovered her gifts under the tree—a large red Santa bag filled with surprises, including her favorite mechanical pencil and an unexpected pile of cardboard houses.

I spent the morning touched by Billy’s perseverance in Where the Red Fern Grows, while the afternoon was dedicated to fix a workspace bug at work.

In the evening, Hamer built and colored her cardboard house while I wrapped up Love Actually, savoring its warmth and love.

2024-12-24 TIL: ACDC, Tailscale, GIS RSS Feeds, New Year’s Day, Bearer

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ACDC (Automated Creation of Digital Cousins)

ACDC is a fully automated pipeline designed to generate interactive simulated scenes, referred to as “digital cousins,” from a single RGB image.

• Unlike digital twins, which are exact replicas of real-world counterparts, digital cousins maintain similar geometric and semantic affordances without explicitly modeling the real-world scene.
• Genie 2 and ACDC Pipeline are both advanced AI models designed for generating interactive environments from image inputs, Genie 2 is geared towards creating diverse 3D worlds for AI and human interaction, whereas ACDC focuses on producing simulated scenes to enhance robot learning and deployment.
• AC/DC are an Australian rock band formed in Sydney in 1973. Their music has been variously described as hard rock, blues rock and heavy metal, although the band calls it simply “rock and roll”.

Tailscale

Tailscale is a mesh VPN (Virtual Private Network) service that streamlines connecting devices and services securely across different networks.

• It enables encrypted point-to-point connections using the open source WireGuard protocol, which means only devices on your private network can communicate with each other.
• Unlike traditional VPNs, which tunnel all network traffic through a central gateway server, Tailscale creates a peer-to-peer mesh network (known as a tailnet).

Top 100 GIS RSS Feeds

The best GIS rss feed list curated from thousands of rss feeds on the web and ranked by relevancy, authority, social media followers & freshness.

• Top 60 Map RSS Feeds

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元日 (New Year’s Day)

王安石（宋‧七言絕句）

爆竹聲中一歲除，春風送暖入屠蘇。 千門萬戶曈曈日，總把新桃換舊符。

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Bearer

The person who owns an official document or banknote.

• The passport No. E******** of the PRC was issued to the bearer of this passport.

This morning, the sky looked uniquely painted as a large airplane passed overhead. I began reading Where the Red Fern Grows and felt deeply moved by Billy’s determination to save $50 over two years to buy two hunting dogs.

After a morning meeting, I searched for Map/GIS RSS feeds, took notes on Positive Discipline at noon, and discussed a program with colleagues in the afternoon before playing badminton.

In the evening, Hamer and I watched Love Actually while waiting for Dada. Xiaoyan traveled to Pattaya today.

2024-12-23 TIL: NORAD Santa Tracker, ReadTogether.ai, HappyKids, and Phonewords Explained

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NORAD Tracks Santa

NORAD Tracks Santa is an annual Christmas-themed program in which North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) simulates the tracking of Santa Claus, who is said to leave the North Pole to travel around the world on his mission to deliver presents to children every year on Christmas Eve.

• This tradition began in 1955 when a child accidentally called NORAD’s predecessor, CONAD, asking about Santa’s whereabouts. The commander played along, starting a yearly tradition.
• Today, NORAD uses radar, satellites, and jets to track Santa every Christmas Eve.
  • Although NORAD claims to use these technologies, the website primarily simulates Santa’s journey and displays predetermined location data to users.

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Readtogether.ai

Read books together with your kids.

• Technologies used:
  • How to convert a hard copy into a high-quality E-book.
  • How to extract content from the E-book — gpt-4o + another model for verification.
  • How to read the content — ElevenLabs, Cosevoice + F5-TTS.
• Explore a collection of children’s books shared by users, and add them to your library.

Happy Kids

HappyKids is a FREE and SAFE video streaming app to educate and entertain kids. HappyKids provides kid-safe content in forms of Popular Shows, Movies, Rhymes, Stories, DIYs, Gaming videos, and more.

• Hamer loves it and now prefers it over YouTube Kids.

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Phonewords

Phonewords are mnemonic phrases represented as alphanumeric equivalents of telephone numbers, using a standard phone keypad:

• 2 → ABC

• 3 → DEF
• 4 → GHI
• 5 → JKL
• 6 → MNO
• 7 → PQRS
• 8 → TUV
• 9 → WXYZ

For example:

• You can start a conversation by calling 1-800-CHATGPT (1-800-242-8478).
• The public NORAD Santa Tracker hotline is 1-877-HI-NORAD (1-877-446-6723).

I felt much better this morning after some extra rest, and Hamer also woke up in a good mood. After dropping her off, I bought breakfast and caught up on my journal.

I planned out a busy week ahead, balancing personal tasks and company event preparations.

In the evening, Hamer and I enjoyed this year’s Christmas light show and a video of Billie Eilish teaching music at an elementary school during dinner. The neckband Bluetooth speaker I bought for my mother-in-law arrived, and she seemed to really like it.