7 Years

It has been 7 years since I started writing a blog on darlingtree.com. 7 years seems like a long time, but it has passed in the blink of an eye.

7 years ago, I was a high school graduate who had just finished the college entrance examination. I remember that summer was very long, and the three-year college entrance examination journey had finally come to an end. I had finally regained my long-lost freedom. At that time, I didn’t have to touch those exam papers anymore, and I could play with the computer every day. At that time, blogs were very popular, and everyone wanted to start a blog to write. Of course, I couldn’t resist the trend. However, I thought that starting a blog was not as good as building one myself, so I could design the template and interface, and it would be unique. 7 years have passed, and I still haven’t changed in this regard :)

7 years have passed, and the blog has been here all along, but I haven’t been writing consistently. However, the over 100 articles here have faithfully recorded many moments of my life over the past 7 years. When I read them from the beginning, sometimes I feel that my thoughts at that time were naive and ridiculous, sometimes I feel that my thoughts at that time were mature and frightening, sometimes I want to delete some of my extreme ideas immediately, and sometimes I feel that the logic I wrote at that time was so flawless that I don’t think I can write as well as I did back then even if I use the same topic now.

From a high school student to a doctoral student, from China to the United States, from PHP to Haskell, many things have changed over the past 7 years.

However, some things will never change:

For example, every October, I still go to see the latest Chinese version of the Conan movie on time.

Also, every summer, I still tinker with my website.

And now, I still like to study how to hack, and I’ve even made it my profession.

I still have many animals and plants around me :)

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From today on, this blog will be using the domain name quake0day.com, which can be considered a new starting point for me. In the next 7 years, I hope I can successfully obtain my doctoral degree, find a job that suits me, and build a warm family. 7 years later, I hope I can still write this blog like I do today.

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This time, I finally successfully transferred the darlingtree.com domain name to the Godaddy host, and the process was relatively smooth. The previous domain name registrar, Anbang Data, had gone bankrupt and could not be renewed, so the domain name had to be transferred to a new network before it could be transferred abroad. After filling out and scanning several forms, I finally managed to keep the darlingtree.com domain name. Now, darlingtree.com still points to the original website, and I’m slowly migrating the original website’s content over. The text part of the blog has already been migrated, and I still need to migrate the pictures and some small programs. It should be completed soon.

This time, I chose Linode’s VPS as the host for the blog. Recently, I’ve been fascinated by FP, so I used Haskell to build this blog. Due to my limited level, many basic functions of the blog have not been implemented yet. After all, secondary development based on Haskell cannot be compared with mature blog systems like WordPress. I will add important functions according to my needs.