Computing Life · An engineering notebook

An engineering notebook on AI, systems, and everyday experiments.

Long-form notes on agentic systems, engineering judgment, astrophotography, hardware, coffee, and the tools that make a life easier to inspect and improve.

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    Reading Notes: the Willpower Instinct

    Practical insights from "The Willpower Instinct": willpower as muscle, dopamine's role, self-forgiveness, and the key technique of pausing to recognize automatic decisions.

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    FAQs to Learning to Fly

    Answers common questions about obtaining a private pilot certificate, covering benefits, aircraft rental costs, training expenses, and time commitment for becoming a certified airplane pilot.

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    Notes on "How to pick up a spouse"

    Key takeaways on choosing a life partner: understanding what makes a good marriage, watching for red flags and green flags, the 7 Cs to look for, and why observing behavior under pressure matters.

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    Scraping photos from Facebook groups

    A practical guide to scraping photos from Facebook groups when Graph API doesn't expose the endpoint - using Chrome dev tools, curl with cookies, grep and awk to extract image URLs from rendered HTML.

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    First solo!

    记录飞行训练中首次单飞的经历,以及训练过程中遇到的趣事:引擎故障模拟、仪表飞行训练、座椅调整乌龙等。