Weekends are always something to look forward to.
Today is Saturday. Honestly, I think Saturday is the happiest day of the week.
Because you rest and play for a day, thinking "Hey, there's still another day ahead."
Sunday is also a rest day, but as soon as you think "I have to work tomorrow," that vague sense of dread starts creeping in.
I woke up early this morning.
I had a health checkup scheduled, so I rode my bike to the software park. Most tech companies provide this benefit—an annual health check for employees. Counting the days, I hadn't done one for two years, so today was the day to catch up.
Weekend health checks are crowded. I went pretty early, but the place was still packed.
Finally got it done around 11 AM.
On the way back, riding my bike, I unexpectedly discovered a basketball court.
Beijing has many parks, and basketball courts are everywhere. Just around where I live, I've already discovered 4 courts on my own explorations.
The one I found today was in a park. I rode in to look around and spotted it. The court is beautiful, with colorful cement flooring and benches for resting.
When I arrived, there weren't many people. Two people were playing, and they had an extra ball. I asked to borrow it and shot around by myself for about an hour.
I don't play much these days—only once this week since it's too cold in winter.
For the past two years, I've been practicing my shooting form. There's been some improvement, but I'm still a practice player with a long way to go for real games.
When they were leaving, I returned the ball and rode back.
I took some photos on the way back. I really like these clean streets.
Approaching Baiwang Mountain, the road looked beautiful—the end of the road was a mountain.
After spending too much time in the city, you rarely see this kind of view in Beijing. It reminded me of Linzhou in Henan province, where the plains end and the Taihang Mountains begin.
I love this feeling, so I stopped and took a photo. At the end of that road was Baiwang Mountain.
I didn't go back to my apartment at noon. I went to the office instead.
My apartment is too cold—better to stay at the company where it's warm.
I spent the afternoon working on the PC version of inBox Notes.
Last week, I used AI to write the cloud sync feature for inBox Notes PC. You heard that right—all the code, all the product design, was done by AI.
This afternoon was mainly for testing, syncing data across multiple devices.
Watching data flow smoothly between devices was satisfying. The core cloud sync functionality is now complete, with just some detail optimizations remaining.
Oh, I also worked on something else today.
I wanted to list my browser extension (SlideNote) on the Microsoft Edge Edge Add-ons marketplace.
Previously, it was only listed on the Chrome Web Store. Users asked if I could list it for Edge too.
I tried it today—technically no problem, since the underlying engines are compatible and the code runs fine.
But when registering, I discovered that Edge developer account is paid.
Not too expensive—about 116 USD per year.
But then I thought: this is a free, open-source extension. Paying out of pocket just to list it in a store felt wrong.
So I added a note in the GitHub documentation: I won't be listing it on the Edge store for now.
If you want to use it, just download the installation package and install it in "Developer Mode." It works the same.
That was my Saturday.
A relatively relaxed day. Happy weekend everyone.
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