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Adding a particle background, a cursor glow, and an ambient gradient to VitePress. The effects themselves are cheap — the traps hide in details: DPR, compositing layers, and learning not to animate.

From instance selection, purchase, and ICP filing to going live — a full walkthrough of launching a personal server in mainland China, including the lesson learned from a filing rejection.

A server exposed to the public internet has one door: SSH. Change the port, disable root login, switch to key auth, and add fail2ban to keep brute-force bots out.

After trying plenty of AI tools, what I really lacked wasn't a chattier model — it was an assistant that actually does the work. WorkBuddy feels like it wires the filesystem, the terminal, the browser, and multimodal generation into a single conversation.

How I wired a Live2D model into this VitePress blog, plus the five traps I fell into — webpack split-bundle order, tap_body key naming, VitePress Layout slot limitations, and more.