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Wire a local LLM into IntelliJ IDEA with LM Studio, LM Link and the Continue plugin — an AI coding setup that needs no API key. Runs Qwen3.5-27B over CUDA on an RTX 2080 Ti, so the tokens are all yours.
Recently, Chinese developers logging into GitLab Global (gitlab.com) were shown a notice titled 'Important Change to Your GitLab.com Account'. The gist: individuals and organizations in Mainland China, Macao and Hong Kong need to migrate their accounts to GitLab China (JiHu) within 60 days, after which the accounts will be deleted.
Today I got GitHub's email, 'GitHub Copilot: What's in your free plan 🤖'. Copilot now has a free tier open to everyone, including two large models: OpenAI GPT-4o and Anthropic.
Sometimes you can't install MariaDB with apt/yum, or you want every node in a database cluster running exactly the same MariaDB version. My motivation this time was building a MariaDB cluster with identical versions across nodes for easier management.
If you use the Flowable/Activiti process engine and the application hangs on startup with the error 'liquibase - Waiting for changelog lock....', it means a database table's lock was never released. This isn't a database-level table lock, so you won't find any locked table by querying — it's a logical lock.
In Spring Boot we commonly use @RestControllerAdvice and @ControllerAdvice to catch exceptions globally and handle them gracefully — but it can't really catch everything. A case I ran into: a custom filter extending OncePerRequestFilter validates the token, and when the token expires it throws an ExpiredJwtException that never gets caught.
A colleague on site reported that my application would periodically freeze with no response and no error logs — API requests just hung waiting. After they sent me a thread dump, I saw most threads in WAITING, stuck in com.alibaba.druid.pool.DruidDataSource.takeLast(). Solution first, root cause after.
This post shares my personal high-concurrency Nginx configuration on a 2-core 2 GB Ubuntu box. Other Linux systems may differ — take it as reference only.
On July 17, 2023, the Republic of Mali took back the .ml registry because the delegation agreement expired. Back in 2013, Dutch internet entrepreneur Johannes Zuurbier obtained the .ml registry rights, signing a 10-year agreement with the government of Mali.
Are you building software platforms for clients or your own company? How do you choose and combine middleware? This is a chance to look at what open source middleware JiHu's experts picked. I pulled over 600 images — way too many — so I'm only picking out the ones I want to talk about, trimmed down.
