Attention before you register a new domain : take a look its history
I recently switched to using the domain name jdzhao.com for my blog, though I haven't been using this particular domain for very long and have had many others in the past.…
I recently switched to using the domain name jdzhao.com for my blog, though I haven't been using this particular domain for very long and have had many others in the past.…
As I often use an overseas card linked to WeChat for payments at various small shops, I've recently noticed that WeChat has started to pass merchant names to overseas institutions.…
Today, I just received another payment from AdSense, which really made me reflect. My journey with AdSense spans over a decade now.…
As I've been managing more and more websites and services, the overseas free monitoring services I used to use no longer seem sufficient. Their notification methods are limited to email or Telegram, and the free quotas have been reduced repeatedly.…
A while ago, I published an article about filing my personal taxes for 2023, see "The Thing About NRA Tax Filing: Successful Tax Filing for Cloud Residents with ITIN."…
Before this, I had used website analytics systems like Google Analytics and Cloudflare, but they always failed to match my usage habits, and I felt a significant discrepancy between their data and my expectations.…
Z4A image hosting has been operational since 2016, and it's now almost 8 years since it started. Initially, it was for personal use, but as registration and usage were opened to the public, it has now become a highly loaded, high-storage, and high-share-level image hosting service.…
Today with some spare time, I decided to calculate whether my internet expenses and costs over the past calendar year were indeed powered by passion or if there was a small surplus. This was also part of considering whether to open a sister site to divert traffic for my fully loaded website. So, converting everything into Chinese Yuan, let's tally up.…
Recently, I got some extra cash and am planning to throw it into my mortgage to pay off a bit in advance.…