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As an new immigrant in Ireland, it is very common that you move every year. It is painful to move. It makes the situation worse because many things in Ireland are related to your address. This post summary the actions you need to take after you move to a new address. It would prevent you from missin

It is a painful process to book an France visa appointment. A tool was implemented to notify you when a new slot is released. As a 9 years of expereinced software engineer, I finally beat the scalpers and got my France visa appointment by the script. A software engineer never bows to scalpers. Curr

How Do I Trade Bonds? IB Bonds Tutorial What are Bonds? Bonds are a type of interest-bearing security usually issued by a government or corporation that obligates the issuer to pay the holder interest (usually at set intervals) and to repay the entire amount of the loan at maturity. Bonds can be gr

Introduction As a former Mac user, transitioning to Windows 11 was initially challenging for me. I found myself missing the ease of use and convenience of MacOS, and I struggled to adapt to the different development environment. However, with some effort and exploration, I discovered some tools and

Last Sunday, I submitted my application for the Hennge Back-end(Tokyo, Japan) SDE position. After that, my mail box received a Challenge 3 email from Hennge. The challenge is very interesting. When I had enough free time on this Saturday, I finished this challenge finally. I spent about 3 hours on t

Two months ago, I configured Travis CI to automatically deploy my blog in Travis CI Hexo Automatically Deploy. However, I found it do not work this month. Unfortunately, Travis do not support free build for public repos now. I have to migrate to Github Action in order to auto CD. I followed this po

RankNameScoreFinish TimeQ1 (3)Q2 (4)Q3 (5)Q4 (6)323 / 12700YoungForest181:00:460:11:32 🐞10:27:230:42:54 🐞10:50:46After 6 weeks of cruel daily check in, I am finally free from solve the daily problem everyday in cruel group. The condition of free is that the contest rank is within top 500 in the wo

Hexo is a powerful blog engine. It is a good choice for a personal blog. I have used it for 5 years. Recently, I setup my English site besides the original Chinese site. With 2 sites, it is more work to write, git and deploy. Fortunately, there is a better solution for this problem. We could use Tra

LeetCode biweekly contest 61

LeetCode weekly contest 259 This weekend is Chinese mid-autumn festival, which is a tradition day to got together with family. I am a country boy. My family live in another province, Shanxi. It is about 1,000 km far from Beijing, where I studied and work. Because of that, I cannot visit my parents.