NODE 01 2025-11-20

Vision Pro First Impressions: Maybe the Future, but Not Yet

As the title suggests, this article is a hands-on review of my first experience with the Apple Vision Pro. I spent about an hour at the Apple Eaton Centre (with the Vision Pro actually on my head for about 30 to 40 minutes), exploring many aspects of the device alongside an Apple staff member. After the whole process, I have a lot I want to share. After the actual experience, my conclusions haven’t changed compared to watching videos from other tech reviewers. As always, I habitually place the core message and my conclusions at the very beginning of the article. My current personal view is: The Vision Pro is a forward-looking spatial computing device, and its original design philosophy leaves it with no competitors in the current market. However, putting aside specific use cases and viewing it purely as a consumer electronic product, it is unacceptable at its current price. Even after all this time, it still has too many pressing issues that need to be resolved.

November 20, 2025 · Zixiang Zhang
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NODE 02 2025-11-17

Starting from a PC Handheld: Thoughts on This Product Category

I recently purchased the ROG Ally (referred to as Ally below). My motivation for buying it was simple: early adoption. I wanted to see what the resulting product looks like when the PC platform’s massive game library merges with the portable “handheld” form factor. After using the ROG Ally for a week, I feel ready to organize and share my user experience.

November 17, 2025 · Zixiang Zhang
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NODE 03 2025-11-11

One Month with a 50-Series GPU Laptop: Some Thoughts

I have had the Alienware 18 Area-51 for a month now, and I have used it for all sorts of tasks. Standing at this point in early November 2025, this article aims to discuss two things from a technical perspective. First: How will graphics processing technology continue to evolve? Second: Compared to traditional desktop tower PCs, who exactly is the target audience for PCs in the form of heavy gaming laptops?

November 11, 2025 · Zixiang Zhang
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NODE 04 2025-11-02

Resolving Math Formula and Theme Conflicts in a Personal Hugo Site

Following my previous article on how to build a static personal website, today I’m bringing you another technical guide: how to resolve theme conflicts when adding math formula support to a personal website. First off, Hugo’s official documentation already explains how to implement math rendering very clearly. You can find their official guide here. Since their documentation is highly detailed and covers configuration code for various file formats, I won’t repeat their steps here (though if anyone needs a Chinese breakdown, I can write one later). I will jump straight into my own troubleshooting process.

November 2, 2025 · Zixiang Zhang
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NODE 05 2025-10-29

Essential Software in My Customized Windows Workflow

I recently bought a new Windows PC and quickly realized that the workflow is vastly different from macOS. Many of the tools I heavily relied on are simply not available on Windows. However, after installing several third-party applications, many areas I previously considered “hopeless” have seen significant improvement. I feel this list is worth sharing. First up is the input method. I chose WeChat Input. The current version has no ads, and you can enable offline mode to restrict it to local access only. The installer is only about 5 MB, so I assume it is a fairly lightweight application. In my personal experience, its phrase prediction and emoji support feel much closer to the native macOS input method. It works significantly better for my needs than the built-in Windows option.

October 29, 2025 · Zixiang Zhang
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NODE 06 2025-10-21

After Finishing Neon Genesis Evangelion: Scattered Reflections

A week before catching up on Evangelion, I also happened to finish reading Haruki Murakami’s novel Norwegian Wood. Why I suddenly started reading literature on a whim is a story for another time. But more than that, I am surprised I actually managed to watch Eva from beginning to end. In Norwegian Wood, Watanabe tries to understand Naoko, dedicating effort and emotion to her, yet still fails to change anything. In Eva, Shinji desperately longs to be accepted by others, but when given the chance to eliminate the A.T. Field and put an end to everything causing him pain, he refuses. Asuka also reminds me of someone from my past. What that friend did back then was as irredeemable as what I did, and I prefer not to bring it up again. But that didn’t stop me from finally understanding the reasons behind it when Eva triggered those memories five or six years later.

October 21, 2025 · Zixiang Zhang
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NODE 08 2025-10-12

How I Implemented Several Website Features

1. Centering Content First, navigate to the .../layouts/shortcodes folder and create a new file named center.html. If the layouts folder doesn’t exist at your root, create one yourself. Do not look for this under the PaperMod theme directory; create it in your own project root. Then paste in the following code and save: <div style="margin: 0 auto; width: fit-content; min-width: 10%; overflow-x: auto;"> {{ .Inner }} </div> ```markdown When calling it later, use this format before rendering: ```markdown {{% center %}} | Top | Bottom | Left | Right | | :---: | :---: | :---: | :---: | | 54.79% | 53.76% | 53.91% | 52.43% | {{% /center %}} {{% center %}} **Table 1.** Variance Explained by 5 Principal Components {{% /center %}} After rendering:

October 12, 2025 · Zixiang Zhang
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NODE 09 2025-10-11

Building and Deploying a Static Personal Website from Scratch

As the title suggests, the purpose of this article is to share the technologies and solutions used in the process of creating and deploying this website, providing a straightforward guide for anyone looking to replicate it. At the same time, this article serves as a personal retrospective on some technologies I’ve learned but haven’t fully grasped, helping me optimize my own workflow. I am not a computer science major, but I did pick up some programming basics during high school and college. So, if I can do it, anyone should be able to.

October 11, 2025 · Zixiang Zhang
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NODE 10 2025-10-03

Useful Websites I Recommend

As the title says, this is a list of websites I keep bookmarked. They help me find resources faster and get specific tasks done. Design and Graphics Fontshare MaltM Pixiv Wallhaven Pixabay OpenCut Film, Anime, and Literature 長門番堂 子夜星 Bangumi Music Production and Audio Engineering Ableton Learning Synths Ableton Learning Music Lazer Mammoth Audio Gridder Natural Sciences Overleaf Integral Calculator Matrix Calculator Modulo Calculator ProbabilityCourse Seeing Theory Dive into Deep Learning Relationships Among Continuous Univariate Distributions TreeVis Other Tools LRC Maker Baidu Mind Map (Naotu) Image Format Converter More will be added over time.

October 3, 2025 · Zixiang Zhang
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