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The Sunday Papers

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How to find 1688 suppliers and compare wholesale prices (without reading Chinese)

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  • 1688.com is a Chinese wholesale marketplace for factories and resellers.
  • The article offers a guide to find suppliers and compare prices without Chinese skills.
  • Steps include using translation tools and price comparison websites.

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Cloud Bill Out of Control: Building a Reliable Budget Alert with OpenCost and Prometheus

You get the email on the 3rd of the month: last month's cloud invoice is 40% above forecast. You open the billing console, and it tells you exactly one useful thing — the account spent too much.

  • OpenCost provides near real-time cloud cost estimates for Kubernetes clusters
  • Exposes metrics like CPU, memory, volume consumption, and hourly costs per namespace
  • Enables per-namespace budget alerts with custom pricing for improved accuracy

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The Case of the Blank SharePoint Page (and the Guest Who Couldn't See It)

SPFx web part and application customizer not loading for guest or external users, and the Public CDN fix TL;DR: Guests can't read your SPFx bundles from the app catalog, so the page renders blank.

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  • Error "CannotCreatePersonalSite" is red herring, not root cause
  • Enabling Public CDN with /CLIENTSIDEASSETS origin resolves issue

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How to keep track of a Xianyu (Goofish) seller's shop and prices

Xianyu (闲鱼), also called Goofish or Idle Fish, is China's largest marketplace for second-hand goods. Cameras, phones, designer clothes, collectibles: a lot of it shows up there first, often cheaper…

  • Xianyu is China's largest marketplace for second-hand goods.
  • Scraper transforms seller's shop and prices into table format.
  • Costs are based on rows stored, with free items removed after changes.

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