Life Milestones

Looking back on the past ten years, I’ve always been full of longing for the future, which forced me to give it my all every day. I’m not the kind of person who can just lie flat. Eight years ago, three years ago—if someone had guided me, would I have become someone really impressive? Would my life be more hopeful than it is now?

• Oct 2023 - Launched the VS Code plugin Monitor Pro because I set up a mini host as a server. VS Code Plugin Monitor Pro - Monitor Everything You Care About - Juejin
• Sep 2023 - Analyzed nginx logs; in a year, Xiaoshu Student’s library service handled 140 million requests.
• Apr 2023 - Finished a student innovation project with a national-level excellent completion and received a 10–20k RMB bonus.
• Jan 2023 - Launched Banxue OS1. The product was simple but in huge demand. With only a tiny bit of SEO, it had strong organic growth. But the API was suppressed by QQ, so it was basically dead.
• Nov 2022 - A project based on Xiaoshu Student entered Microsoft Edge Add-on/Innovator Contest. In a field full of experts, I placed third as a solo participant and received 4,000 RMB after tax. The prize also included a Microsoft internship opportunity. I submitted my preferences and thought I’d get to experience big cities like Beijing, Shanghai, or Suzhou, but there was no follow-up. Friends and family felt it was a real pity. https://blog.nexmoe.com/04HB92.html
• Jul 2022 - The open-source “Explorer Xiaoshu” was integrated into a 360 team’s internal project.
• Apr 2022 - Xiaoshu Student was picked by a teacher to participate in a student innovation project.
• Jan 9, 2022 - Explorer Xiaoshu went live, later recommended by “Chaping” and got a lot of exposure. One-click switch search platforms! With this plugin I got faster and faster.
• Nov 2021 - My first 1,000-star GitHub repo was born: Hexo Theme Nexmoe.
• Sep 2021 - My first software copyright, applied using a high-school project because a friend wanted to farm credits.
• Aug 6, 2021 - Xiaoshu Student launched. It became my main project and helped me meet many people.
• After Apr 2021 - I turned things around, joined multiple teams, and mass-produced software copyrights. Turns out competitions were easy to farm, but those opportunities never came back.
• Apr 2021 - PE 74, military training 67, GPA 3.66, ranked 7th in the major. Failed to transfer into CS. Others joined school competitions; I didn’t. If PE hadn’t dragged me down, I could have transferred based on GPA alone.
• Freshman year 2020 - Learned Go and built something like an App Store for Qingwan Navigation, with reviews, submissions, ratings, history, moderation, SSO users, static assets handling—this was the predecessor of Manyou Yunye. All those features were later removed.
• Aug 2019 - Open-sourced Hexo Theme Nexmoe, which became my first 1,000-star project on GitHub. A Typecho version came soon after, and the community made a Halo version. Some people even used it for their graduation projects. Nexmoe’s Design
• Feb 2019 - Bought a used laptop for 500 RMB and built a full-stack confession wall, later used in a graduation project. PHP & Vue.js Confession Wall
• 2019 - Believed MBTI was a great social tool and promoted it to friends. I was sometimes INTP, sometimes ENTP, and eventually mostly ENTP. I’m restless.
• 2018 - We also built some public APIs, like this one. Cravatar – Public Avatar Service
• 2018 - Qingwan Wallpaper site went offline. We launched the Mixcm wallpaper site with friends and got thousands of users on day one. The domain mixcm.com was renewed for 10 years. A wallpaper site made by middle school students - V2EX
• 2017 - A blog theme I made sold for a few thousand RMB; the wallpaper site’s navigation ads made a few hundred.
• Jun 2016 - Qingwan Navigation was a qualified graduation project with an admin backend, CRUD, and user system.
• May 2016 - Qingwan Wallpaper and Qingwan Navigation launched. Qingwan Navigation would accompany me for five years. Qingwan Start Page Memoir. The wallpaper site was based on Cloudreve’s predecessor, and its author guided my programming journey. Cloudreve - A hybrid public/private cloud storage system
• May 1, 2016 - Bought my first programming book, “PHP Bible,” and officially began my programming journey.
• 2016 - Submitted my first PR to an open-source project on GitHub. GitHub - itorr/imouto: Fast, clear, minimalist
• Dec 2015 - Built schedule, countdown, and weather apps in Easy Language. Things I once wrote in Easy Language
• 2014 - My PC couldn’t run LOL, so I played “300 Heroes” (300MB installer). I got into Easy Language by tinkering with third-party tools and made simple skin replacements. I stopped later because I built a decent PC and could play LOL. AMD YES! (Indeed, I haven’t used Intel ever since.)