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I finally got the Netherlands Schengen visa I had been longing for in Dublin: a short-stay visa for visiting friends and relatives. Because my friend was studying in Amsterdam and I was working in Ireland, and because Ireland is not part of the Schengen Area, if we wanted to visit each other, I nee

Reposted from my blog This year, according to plan, I applied from China to programmer positions in Europe. Although I happened to encounter a macroeconomic downturn, with companies freezing hiring or even laying off people one after another, I was lucky enough to still receive two offers and succe

Whether from watching domestic news while in China, or from real feelings after coming to Ireland, political correctness is a very obvious feature of the West. The common domestic view is that political correctness is rather stupid and amounts to digging one’s own grave. Yet after coming here, I fou

It has been two weeks since I successfully moved to Ireland. Because I have been busy handling all kinds of things since arriving, life has slowly begun to get on track. Starting today, I will gradually share some guides for the early stage of working or studying in Ireland. On one hand, I have step

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

As a system with Chinese characteristics, hukou has always been an important consideration when people think about work, life, and settlement. Thirty years ago, our parents’ generation went to great lengths to convert rural hukou into urban hukou; now we go to great lengths for a Beijing hukou. Many

Happy New Year. There are still three days before 2021 ends, and I have finally started writing my annual year-end review and New Year outlook. Recently I have noticed more and more classmates writing year-end reviews, but I am not really following the trend. I started doing this very early, first i

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

Recently, when using my beloved Niz Plum 66 keyboard, I ran into a strange bug. In Bluetooth mode, the left Option key stopped working. Since my Hammerspoon setup and many other app shortcuts use it heavily, I could occasionally use the right Option key as a temporary substitute, but that was never