Today, I took some time to organize some links and documents archived in my blog, and found that many links to WeChat articles and some major websites no longer work. Since I often read resources from the Chinese-speaking world, I always feel that links in the Chinese-speaking world are unstable and constantly changing. To prevent losing articles in the future, when I come across excellent materials, I try to copy and paste them, as saving links is very unreliable.
Reflections
- If an information source or software goes down, all the information attached to it is lost. Dangerous!
- It's best not to use information systems without backup or export functions. Some systems are deliberately designed to masquerade as useful information systems, crippling data transfer to make users dependent on the platform, and then earning advertising revenue. Users become the platform's data resources.
- Using WeChat public accounts and third-party websites to store technical articles can cause information pollution. Platforms have account and content controls, which in turn affect the stability of information. Third-party platforms are suitable for marketing, like TV commercials, broadcasting daily, even if repetitive.
- Storing code snippets in a blog is very inefficient. It's more convenient to store them as projects for long-term preservation and searching.
Future Suggestions
- The AI era has caused many materials to become obsolete. The update rate and immediacy of personal repositories are far behind AI. After absorbing non-original knowledge, AI can provide it to users in a more personalized, fragmented, low-cost, and comfortable manner. A large part of humans' repeater function will disappear. Many repetitive materials, codes, and images become worthless, but by assembling these things through human creativity, they gain immense productivity. Imagination and execution become extremely important. AI can provide powerful assistance but cannot replace your decision-making and execution. Brave and kind people are more likely to succeed.
- Many technical paths are about to disappear.