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A collection of tutorials and advices for whoever it may serve

Coming to live in China, trash your cloud services and get yourself a NAS!

When coming to live in China, you won't be able to rely anymore on many Western services that were maybe essential to your workflow and daily life. That's the perfect opportunity to take back some of your data under your control by self-hosting!

16 min read · September 04, 2025

2025 · china self-hosting cloud · china-life
LaTeX tuto - Heatmaps grid with Lua

Learn to draw a grid of heatmaps using PGFPlots and Lua.

30 min read · May 25, 2025

2025 · latex tutorial · texfantasy
Academic visit in China (TODO list)

Everything you need to know about preparing your short academic visit in China. Summary in a form of a TODO list.

1 min read · February 10, 2025

2025 · china travel academia · china-academic-visit
Academic visit in China (3/3)

Everything you need to know about preparing your short academic visit in China. Part 3/3 - Once arrived.

18 min read · February 10, 2025

2025 · china travel academia · china-academic-visit
Academic visit in China (2/3)

Everything you need to know about preparing your short academic visit in China. Part 2/3 - Internet, payments, and other essentials.

18 min read · February 10, 2025

2025 · china travel academia · china-academic-visit