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winston zhao

winston zhao

being present everyday and remaining open so that life can flow through me grateful for every moment and able to let go of the things that hold me back

📍 bay area https://www.buymeacoffee.com/winstonzhao

No one is reading this anyways.

I was wondering if I was getting any traffic to my inconsistently written articles, so I installed tinyanalytics onto my website about a week ago. Lo and behold, no one visited. 🤣 (the 2 visitors are me on different browsers)

Convert any HTML or React Component to PDF and Save It In Browser in 2023

I found it very, very annoying to figure out how to make a PDF out of a page using html2canvas, jsPDF, and React in 2023. Hope that this article can help whoever is struggling with the generated PDF being cut off, blurry, or whatever issues are going on with this.

Time/Date in JavaScript is so confusing. Seriously. Confusing

Read this if you're using Supabase PostgresQL + Mantine TimeInpu or another time input that uses a JavaScript Date, or if you just want to amuse yourself with my pain. I ran into this really annoying issue and I came up with a really stupid solution (I hope someone tells me

One of the most important VS Code Settings for a clean file explorer (Javascript/Typescript Developers )

Ugh, I had no idea how annoying this was when I switched from IntelliJ to VS Code. I'm a die hard IntelliJ fan because their git GUI is so insanely useful for resolving conflicts; I switched to VS Code because I am no longer employed by a big tech company

Reflection / Retrospective

Something that I have failed to do in my personal life is making an active effort to document on things that went well / what went poorly. Usually, all of this self-reflection is handled subconsciously in the background and I let all of the ideas and thoughts simmer until that "lightbulb"

Day 2 - chillax friday / excited to try factor75!

trying out factor75 based on recommendations from a couple friends. the review is that it's very tasty and convenient. if you want to try it out, you can get $120 off a box here. out on all platforms below! https://www.instagram.com/p/CiDzRhjBjjM/ @winnietoks day 2 of the

Day 1 - 25k challenge

out on all platforms!! https://www.instagram.com/p/CiBQUhmhO2L/ @winnietoks day 1: had to pay rent so already down to $23k ♬ Aesthetic - Tollan Kim

CloudFlare DNS + Fly.io issues

After successfully deploying this site for free on fly.io, I wanted to use my own custom domain, but first I had to buy it. I actually found the cheapest place to buy domain names. Surprisingly, it's CloudFlare; after comparing with Google Domains and NameCheap. I found that CloudFlare sells

Creating this ghost 5.0 blog and hosting it for free

I'll keep this up to date as much as possible. dm me on twitter @ https://twitter.com/winnieletsgo if you have issues and I'll update I always wanna be using the latest and greatest but for the price that makes sense. This price is a no brainer: free.fifty Skip