1 The cause of the third optimization of the blog's active-active architecture: A few days ago, I was preparing to perform a very routine maintenance operation on the Mac mini node in the blog's active-active architecture: upgrading the version of Portainer. As a result, a seemingly insignificant small problem ended up putting the entire node...

1 When we get used to “the original singer is the standard” but forget whose voice ours is: When most people start singing, there is actually an “invisible standard” by default in their minds—whatever key the original singer sings in, we should also sing in that key. It seems that only by completely following the original singer can we be recognized...

1 Preface: With my recent initial achievement of the goal of “larynx position freedom,” I have been reflecting on the detours I took over the past two years of studying “singing”—it is no exaggeration to say it was a winding mountain road. The fundamental reason for taking so many detours was that right from the start, I was misled by various online “vocal teachers”" teaching...

1 Entering ‘high placement’: A deified concept of high notes. Speaking of “high placement,” I believe many friends who learn singing and have watched countless instructional videos must be familiar with it. Searching on Bilibili, the three words “high placement” bring up a screen full of tutorials, with titles like “Unlock the secret of high notes,” “Sing high notes easily"...

1 Preface: I have been using an entry-level VPS ($39/year) from Racknerd's Chicago data center to build the “read-only node” in my blog's active-active architecture for almost half a year now. Over this half-year, the overall stability of the VPS has actually been quite good, at least...

1 Preface: In the process of seriously studying singing over the past two years, I encountered a very thorny problem: my ears' ability to distinguish could not keep up with my body's vocal ability. When professional vocalists listen to an original recording, they can often immediately judge how high that high note actually is, or whether that low note really sinks that low; but for someone like me...

1 Preface: In my previous articles, I had two posts about self-hosting Umami: one about setting up version 1.33.1 (see article: Docker Series: Building a Umami-based Website Traffic Monitoring System), and one about setting up version 2.11.3 (see article: Home Data Center...

1 Preface: In the previous article (see: Food for Thought Series: Systematic Review of Buddhist Theory (1): From Interest to Rational Understanding of Buddhism), we talked about the compatibility between Buddhism and science—although they take different paths, both use observation as a method and awareness as their destination. Science explores the laws of the world outward, while Buddhism...

1 Preface I have loved singing since I was a child. I remember the first song I seriously learned was "Green Apple Land" by the Little Tigers. In order to write down the lyrics of this song, I listened to it line by line in front of the radio and transcribed it into my notebook~, which was much more self-disciplined than the dictation at school. However, all along, I have never...

1 My Starting Point: Why Choose to Start with Buddhism Speaking of humans as a species, we are inherently a contradiction: we can be powerful enough to reshape mountains and rivers, build grand structures, go to the sky and the sea, and even leave footprints in space; yet we can also be fragile enough to fall into self-pity, depression, or even contemplate... because of a night of insomnia, a word of blame, or a period of loneliness.