From last year to this year, I played two PC games: Black Myth and WuChang, both downloaded and played on their release days. This would have been hard to imagine five years ago. Back then, I had just finished Monster Hunter: World’s main story using a Windows KVM virtual machine with GPU passthrough. When the Iceborne expansion was released, Proton could already support quite a few older games, but the latest games were difficult to support at launch. I remember it took two to three months after Iceborne’s official PC release before the game could be launched, and there were still some bugs. Moreover, whenever Proton was updated, the game might become unplayable again…

I’ve been using FydeOS/ChromeOS for about two years now. While the system provides a usable terminal app, it’s honestly not that great. For example, during development, I often need to forward multiple ports. Although I can achieve this by entering SSH commands for port forwarding, this requires manually inputting quite a few parameters. Additionally, during port forwarding, I need to keep the SSH login window open. For someone like me who’s particularly obsessive about minimizing the number of open windows, keeping three or four windows open that won’t be used in the foreground is really uncomfortable… So I thought, can I do it myself, with the help of AI, modify the system’s default terminal client, and add quick forwarding functionality like VSCode has?

When people are speechless, they really do laugh - my direct supervisor has resigned again and again and again. Why so many “agains”? Let me draw a timeline to see how many bosses I’ve “jinxed”.

Compared to two years ago at my previous company, I now use AI much more frequently. If the limitation back then was the convenience of the tools themselves, the current limitation seems to be my own knowledge and technical skills rather than AI.

After changing the motherboard and CPU, everything went smoothly… I’m not sure whether it was the motherboard or CPU that was causing the issue before - compilation would fail after tens of minutes, and subsequent attempts would fail at different points. This was actually the first time in my life I encountered real hardware incompatibility issues… Another “first time in my life” experience.

So here comes the second part of compiling openfyde. Unfortunately, during the time I was struggling with the faulty hardware, the prebuilt image for r132-dev version was already updated… Missed the hot topic…

title: Compiling ARM version of Theia-IDE using GitHub Actions
categories: Others
date: 2025-06-16 23:20:58
tags: [‘github’, ‘theia’]

Since my first encounter with ChromeOS/FydeOS, I’ve been trying various VSCode-like editors. Recently, after learning about Huawei’s CodeArt and its upstream project Theia, I started tinkering again.
Unfortunately, my current device is an 8GB FydeOS, not the 16GB Manjaro or PixelBook 2017 I used before. The available memory in the Linux container is very limited - I can’t even compile an ARM version of Theia-IDE browser edition… So… I had to “borrow” GitHub’s resources again.

At the beginning of this year, I tried to compile openfyde, hoping to learn about compiling and modifying the openfyde system, and also to make use of my extra engineering machine. However, half a year has passed… and the issues from the last compilation still haven’t been resolved…

For websites requiring interactive operations, using pytest for API testing alone is insufficient as it doesn’t cover frontend interactions. Previously I used Selenium for browser control in web scraping tasks, but now I’ve found that Microsoft’s Playwright can also control browsers for automated testing, and it’s even simpler to use than Selenium since it supports automatic test case recording.

For the past six months, a significant part of my work has been maintaining the company’s website. Since I took over the code midway, there’s always a risk of introducing new bugs during maintenance. Therefore, as required by my supervisor, I learned how to implement automated testing.

Since I started playing with the ancient version of Linux Deepin in my junior year (2011), it’s been 14 years now. During this long period, I’ve used Debian/RedHat/Arch-based distros, but except for accidentally deleting my graduation thesis in my final year of grad school, I’ve never encountered any malware or viruses on Linux distributions.

However last week, our company server… actually got infected…