Möbius Monthly Vol. 1
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Welcome to Möbius Monthly. After the inaugural note, the monthly is now here with its first issue. I hope it can be like a Möbius loop: make it infinite.
Fragments of the Trajectory
The Music App Dilemma
I usually listen to music on NetEase Cloud Music. To listen to Jay Chou, I uploaded all his songs to its cloud drive. NetEase Cloud Music used to match them automatically and load the lyrics, covers, and comments, but this month all of that stopped working. The official explanation was an “internal system upgrade.”
After I had endured enough of tracks with no covers or lyrics, I decided to switch to QQ Music. A few hours later, I obediently switched back to NetEase Cloud Music. There was only one reason: QQ Music’s Windows client is painful to look at, and still far behind NetEase Cloud Music.
I later found other Jay Chou resources online, uploaded everything again, rebuilt the playlist, and carried on with NetEase Cloud Music.
A Cursor Refund
I had been using Cursor’s Pro trial for free. Some time ago, my roommate and I decided to share a Pro account. Cursor had just announced a new Pro plan with unlimited usage.
But after using it, I found that it was not actually unlimited. Cursor later stated on its forum that there would be usage limits, and that a cooldown would be triggered after reaching the rate limit.
Later, the Cursor team published an apology. I emailed them after seeing it, and received a refund notification two days later.
Cursor is undeniably a great tool for vibe coding, but Claude’s expensive pricing significantly hurts the experience.
Open-Source Constellations
CoverView
While organizing repositories I had starred this month, I rediscovered a project from several years ago. It helps generate blog cover images quickly and integrates with Unsplash.
plantuml-editor2
I needed UML diagrams for my ASP.NET final project. I gave the project to Manus for analysis and asked it to generate class diagrams, relationship diagrams, and flowcharts. After Manus produced the UML code, I used this project to render it directly as SVG or JPG. Many sites offer this kind of service, but they either charge money or fail to produce what I need. After some searching, I found this small project.
skill-icons
This project can spruce up a GitHub README by providing icons for technology stacks.
For example:
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Cultural Topology
“Whenever I think of things too vast for heaven and earth to contain, rosy clouds rise and burn within me;
Having never traveled to the white-haired horizon where the one I love wanders, how could I understand moonlit mirrors and water-borne flowers?”
I read Ma Boyong’s Lychees of Chang’an last year. I never expected both a film and television series to arrive this year. As for the series, Lei Jiayin’s performance is as solid as ever.
Because it was adapted for television, the story adds much more than the original book. It is no longer only Li Shande’s journey transporting lychees. There is also Zheng Ping’an’s story of entering the game himself to gather evidence and bring down the Right Chancellor. The two storylines finally converge.
I had previously come across Professor Xiong Hao citing the story in a New Chinese Debate competition video on Bilibili. It gave me a different feeling while watching the series.