How to Choose an English Name for Yourself (Step-by-Step)

Looking for names popular the year you were born? Try Name Vintage / 同年名 — U.S. SSA data for 1880–2025, with pronunciation and a shortlist. Or browse girls’ names, boys’ names, a year page, or an A–Z letter page. Quick steps: how to choose an English name for yourself If you are asking, “How do I choose an English name for myself?”, start with a name you feel comfortable using. You can also keep your Chinese name in pinyin; an English name is optional. ...

November 7, 2019 · Updated 2026-11-05 · 6 mins · Lex Cao

Jekyll Multi-Language without Plugin

Goal Support multi-language, mainly in English and supplemented by Chinese; When visiting pages begin with /, e.g. /about.html, /posts/hello-world, English pages would be shown; When visiting pages began with /zh/, e.g. /zh/about.html, /zh/posts/hello-world, Chinese pages would be shown; When visiting ../hello-world posts, corresponding langugage posts would be jumped via the link; Posts which are specified language would only be shown in archive and index pages. Defect As 404.html page was not supported for separate language file, two langugage content would be shown on it at the same time. The jekyll-paginate-v2, a plugin supports pagination for multi-language, is not supported by GitHub Pages. So the blog has not been supported pagination so far. See details below. It is a little bit tricky to show date in multi-language way. Some string formatting work should be taken as it is able to have done that but is not a better way. Please see Jekyll Date Formatting. Setup Firstly, I found a i18n plugin Jekyll Multiple Languages Plugin. ...

October 27, 2019 · 6 mins · Lex Cao