A
apple.com.cn As someone who’s all-in on the Apple ecosystem, I still visit the Apple official website quite often (even if it’s just to study the page and interaction design).
act-go.com An ACT mock exam website that provides relatively comprehensive features. Currently, in China, there don’t seem to be many mature practice and mock platforms for the ACT like XDF TOEFL or Xiaozhan TOEFL. Although act-go only has mock exam features, it’s already pretty good.
atri-mdm.com The official ATRI website 🤤, an anime adaptation was announced this year.
B
beta.reactjs.org
The new React documentation. Compared to the total crap on the previous site, it’s finally much more human-friendly. The new docs ditch the outdated React Class Components in favor of React Hooks. It also adds interactive examples and diagrams for easier understanding (though it’s still a bit of a headache to look at).
buff.163.com
Used for financial management A CSGO skin trading platform.
baidu.com Used to test network connectivity.
C
chat.openai.com ChatGPT is the GOAT!
chalk-c3.seiue.com Chalk, my school’s educational management platform.
D
dash.cloudflare.com Cloudflare dashboard, used to manage websites I’ve deployed on Cloudflare Pages. Tbh, Cloudflare Pages is really handy; compared to GitHub Pages, it can be accessed directly in China (it seems), so it’s great for showcasing things to an audience that generally doesn’t have a VPN. The deployment speed is also much faster than GitHub Pages.
deepl.com Claimed to be the world’s most accurate translation platform. In practice, it’s quite good, though sometimes it’s a bit slow and the free version has a 5,000-character limit. So, when I need to translate long articles, I still use Google Translate.
dlsite.com For “buying the ticket” (supporting the creators) (
E
e-hentai.org You’re right, forgot the beginning, forgot the middle, forgot the end.
F
fotoncard.com A virtual international credit card issuing platform (not an ad) that provides virtual Visa and Mastercard issued in Hong Kong and the US. It’s quite convenient if you need to pay with a credit card on international platforms (like Cloudflare). Requires USDT for top-ups.
G
google.com Also for testing network connectivity (international sites).
github.com Occasionally I tinker with some little things on here.
H
humanbenchmark.com Used for testing reaction speed.
I
ip.skk.moe An excellent tool for checking IP addresses. It supports querying from multiple domestic and international exit points, making it easy to check if split tunneling rules for tools like Clash are correctly configured.
J
jstor.org Used for researching literature.
K
kookapp.cn A domestic alternative to Discord. The interface is quite clean.
L
localhost A must-have for Web development (counts as a domain, right?).
M
monkeytype.com An open-source typing speed test website that supports a high degree of customization and many special cursed modes (like rAnDomcAsE tYpINg tEst, mirrored typing).
N
notion.so A cross-platform note-taking app. The experience is very comfortable. However, I lean more towards software like Ulysses that stays closer to the native Apple style.
netflix.com If you can’t use up all your VPN traffic, come watch Netflix in 4K.
O
otter.ai
A meeting recording transcription tool. It works pretty well if the recording quality is good.
(Though it doesn’t work so great when used during seminars…)
P
paimon.moe A Genshin Impact helper tool developed based on SvelteKit. It supports features like wish history statistics and material calculations. Because it has a massive user base, its public gacha statistical samples are quite reliable as a reference.
protonmail.com An anonymous email service provider. You can register without providing an existing email or phone number.
Q
quillbot.com An AI paraphrasing tool. It’s proven to be very effective—a must-have for polishing writing. It can even help articles generated by ChatGPT pass detection tools like GPT Zero. :::note These types of tools use the same methods as ChatGPT to analyze text and calculate the probability that the text was generated by GPT technology. :::
R
reactjs.org The React official site; back then, I just had to slog through that crap.
rtings.com An international review site covering products like headphones, monitors, mice, and keyboards.
S
sli.dev
Slidev, a Vue-based library for making PPTs. It uses Markdown syntax, which is quite developer-friendly.
Since it’s essentially a Vue application, you can even insert Vue components into your slides.
Perfect for flexing during a presentation.
sparknotes.com Provides a vast amount of literature notes, course notes, overviews, test answers, study guides, and other learning resources. There are tons of summaries and analyses of English novels on there—if you know, you know. LitCharts is another similar one.
T
t.bilibili.com When I’m on a PC, I usually go straight to the Dynamics feed on Bilibili. There’s usually nothing worth watching on the home page.
teams.microsoft.com Teams, used for turning in assignments.
tpo.xdf.cn A TOEFL practice platform by New Oriental (XDF). Simple, easy to use, and free. Gotta keep using it until I finally “break up” with TOEFL (
testgts.com Used for mock exams.
U
unogs.com Used to check which regions have specific Netflix content. Netflix content varies by country; your IP determines what you see. Once you find the region where the movie you want is available, just switch your proxy to that region.
V
vultr.com A VPS provider. This year, because I became a heavy Telegram user, I set up a $2.50 instance to deploy EFB (I’ve since given up on using it). Anyway, it’s quite a good deal, and having your own server is very convenient.
W
web.dev A web technology site by Chrome DevRel. There are some simple front-end courses you can check out.
X
xyspg.moe The website you are looking at right now.
Y
youtube.com The world’s largest video platform.
yuzu-soft.com Yuzu-soft fans are disgusting.
Z
zhihu.com Zhihu. Relatively speaking, the community atmosphere is still okay.
z-lib.org Z-library; although it’s “down,” there are still ways to access it.
评论
No comments yet