Speaking of shadowsocks, I really feel sorry for the author.. I believe his final words were "I hope one day I'll live in a country where I have freedom to write any code I like without fearing"
https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=zh-CN&u=http...
His GitHub went quiet after that, but as wiremaus points out, he seems to be alive and well based on his twitter posts.