Procrastination…I admit that I was back to my sweet home last year to be exact at midnight December 24, 2019 after 4+ months adventure in South America. Then I was on real do-nothing vacation first for couple of days followed by researching and planning my next Africa trip. Finally, I am back to update my blog…still before I can do that, I need to move the work to my desktop. Hopefully, this works. Let’s check out the first push from the desk top!

To be dynamic, or not to be dynamic? That is the question. As a novice in this web/blog field, I even did NOT know the question exists. Static site was just chosen based on the GOOGLE search keyword ‘How to create a personal blog’ when I started this blog. As a person knows some DTA stuff, let’s add some dynamic favor to this static site using Firestore by Google Cloud!

Showing word counts and reading time initially seemed to be a fancy feature. Easy to implement but may cause the title block a little bit too congested. Actually, tonight I also added view count via Google Firebase, which is pretty cool feature! This will be documented tomorrow night…it’s getting really late or you can say early at the moment.

A MUST READ ARTICLE. It discusses adding js files as audio player with customerized CSS. I think with these two skills, you can implement anything on Hexo blog. With an exception to reaching users from mainland China, though it’s not a technical issue…

Tips & steps to add Leaflet map to Hexo. This also discusses how to add html file & javascript to Hexo Blog!

Another feature for my imaginary readers :)

Float up to the top in Google search! Yes, only Google not Baidu the second largest search engine in the world.

A simple instruction on how to add Gitalk but lengthy discussion on why I selected Gitalk and some further issues with this plugin after implementation.

This is just my study note archiving useful tricks & tips for Hexo blog development. Another boring technical post.

This is my first post of this blog, which I should have documented why and how I made the decision along the way back in May 2019 to quit my job and start my sabbtical on traveling South America and hopefully Africa. Now it’s July 15, 2019, I was distracted by many other tasks, and interests since the day of my big decision. The post actually documented why and how I created this blog. It is a boring technical blog, I enjoyed it very much. Anyway, I am not good at writing prose in English nor in Chinese anyway. So take it or leave it!