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TLDR

A weekly Chinese-language tech newsletter archive with curated articles on programming, AI, startups, and industry news, published every Friday and stored as Markdown files.

Mindmap

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    What it does
      Weekly tech digest
      Curated articles
      Job board
    Content areas
      Programming
      Artificial intelligence
      Hardware trends
      Startups
    How to use
      Browse by year
      Search archives
      Submit content
      Read offline
    Audience
      Chinese readers
      Tech followers
      Job seekers

Things people build with this

USE CASE 1

Read a weekly summary of tech news and trends in Chinese every Friday.

USE CASE 2

Browse the full archive of past issues organized by year and month to catch up on historical tech commentary.

USE CASE 3

Submit articles, software, or resources for consideration in future newsletter issues.

USE CASE 4

Clone the repository locally to read all issues offline without internet access.

Tech stack

MarkdownGit

Getting it running

Difficulty · easy Time to first run · 5min
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In plain English

This is a Chinese-language weekly newsletter focused on technology topics, published every Friday by author Ruan Yifeng. The repository serves as the public archive: each weekly issue is stored as a Markdown file inside a docs folder, and the main README acts as an index linking to every issue going back several years. Readers find issues organized first by year, then by month, with each entry showing the issue number and a short title in Chinese describing that week's main theme. The newsletter covers a wide range of subjects of interest to people who follow technology, including programming, artificial intelligence, hardware, startups, internet trends, and broader tech industry news. The README also notes that the issue discussion section includes a free job posting board where companies and individuals can advertise programming positions and internships. Anyone can submit articles, software, or resources for inclusion by opening an issue on the repository. You would visit this if you read Chinese and want a weekly curated summary of tech happenings, or if you want to browse historical archives of tech commentary by issue number. Because the content is organized as Markdown files in a public Git repository, you can also clone the whole archive locally to read offline. The README does not specify a publishing tool or website framework, it is presented as a chronological list of links to individual issue pages.

Copy-paste prompts

Prompt 1
Show me how to clone this Chinese tech newsletter repository and set up a local archive I can search through.
Prompt 2
Help me write a submission to this weekly newsletter about a new programming tool or tech trend.
Prompt 3
How do I browse the issue archives in this repository to find articles about a specific technology topic?
Prompt 4
Explain how to set up a similar weekly curated newsletter repository for a different topic or language.
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