Blog & Updates

Just real talk about my experience going all-in on vibe coding with Claude Opus 4.6 this past month. I break down the honeymoon phase and the reality check of building a Texture2D cache reference counting system, and why a human's architectural gut feeling is still the only thing stopping your app from becoming spaghetti code.

Drawing from iKnowABit's development experience, this post shares how solo developers can skip building tedious admin panels and use Telegram bots paired with Cloudflare for secure, ultra-lightweight server monitoring and automation.

An exploration of common bugs involving action state overriding and failed recovery. Drawing from my experience with a startup team, I share how to build a high-extensibility, low-coupling action state machine in Unity using an Active State Pool and dynamic priority evaluation.

This article details the lightweight automated deployment architecture of the iKnowABit website, implemented with Next.js, PM2, and pure Shell scripts. It covers the complete technical solution from Git polling and monitoring, atomic releases, and symlink mounting to Drizzle ORM automated migrations for multiple SQLite databases.

Ever wondered about the real revenue behind those massive view counts? Plug in any YouTube channel and get an instant estimate of their total earnings and per-video value with our new analysis tool.

Struggling to keep up with younger gamers? Forget a passcode as soon as you see it? Welcome to the iKnowABit Human Benchmark Collection. From reaction time and muscle memory to color vision and working memory, test your "biological hardware" with our full suite of professional online tools.

As an independent website with 7.1k monthly active users, 22K monthly views, 40+ long articles, 50+ tools, and all compliance pages, I keep getting rejected by AdSense for "low value content." Webmaster Daniel Lu records this frustrating experience and shares the real earnings of temporarily switching to Monetag.

A sincere apology letter from a solo developer about the integration of ads. As traffic and server costs increase, we've carefully placed ads in the margins to keep the site running for free. Thank you for your understanding and support.

A summary of recent new and traditional scam cases seen in the news and on social media to help you stay sharp and avoid falling into traps.

Xiaomi recently released several large models, and the MiMo v2 TTS speech synthesis model is currently free for a limited time. Since there is no official web demo for regular users, I quickly put together a pure front-end online tool. Just enter your free API Key to convert text to speech directly in your browser.