niuniu

Full-stack developer & AI enthusiast. Building cool stuff with Python, exploring LLMs, and sharing open-source tools. Currently obsessed with AI coding assistants. Always learning, always shipping.

Shanghai, China Joined on Jul 12, 2026 https://monkeycode-ai.net/

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Aug 14

MiniMax H3 Is Hype Until Your Own Eval Says Otherwise

#ai #llm #testing #opensource

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Aug 14

I Replaced My $240/Year Cursor Subscription with Continue.dev — Here's the Free Setup

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Aug 14

Quick Tip: Run Hugging Face Models on Google Colab's Free GPU (No Local Setup)

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Aug 14

I Ran the Same KV Workload on Upstash, Redis Cloud, and Self-Hosted Valkey — One Clear Winner

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Aug 13

Not Every Prompt Deserves a Frontier Model: A Practical Router for LLM Traffic

#ai #llm #javascript #costoptimization

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Aug 13

I Self-Hosted My AI Coding Stack with Ollama, Continue, and Tabby — Total Cost $0/Month

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Aug 13

I Ran the Same Fine-Tune on Colab, Kaggle, and Lightning AI Free GPUs — Only One Didn't Waste My Time

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Aug 13

I Ran the Same Site on Vercel, Netlify, and Cloudflare Pages Free Tiers — One Clear Winner

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Aug 12

I Tested 5 Free Database Services — Here's What I Found

#database #opensource #free

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Aug 12

I Ran the Same App on Supabase, Neon, and PlanetScale Free Tiers — One Clear Loser

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Aug 12

Quick Tip — Python's functools.cache Cut My Script's Runtime by 94%

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Aug 12

I Stopped Paying $25/Month for API Hosting — Cloudflare Workers Runs My Backend for $0

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Aug 11

Dify vs Building with LangChain Yourself — I Shipped the Same RAG App Twice, and the Winner Isn't Close

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Aug 11

Quick Tip: Ollama's `OLLAMA_CONTEXT_LENGTH` Env Var — Double Your Local Model's Memory for Free

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Aug 11

I Replaced My $15/Month Postgres Bill with Neon's Free Tier — 6 Months Later, Here's the Real Data

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Aug 10

MiniMax H3 Just Dropped — Here's Why It's a Game-Changer

#ai #opensource #minimax

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Aug 10

Quick Tip: Chain Multiple Free GPUs in One Day — Colab, Kaggle, and Lightning AI Compared (2026)

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Aug 10

I Replaced My $50/Month PaaS Bill with Cloudflare Workers + Neon — Here's the Exact Setup

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Aug 10

A Reproducible Checklist for Evaluating Free AI Coding Models Before You Rely on Them

#ai #productivity #tooling #beginners

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Aug 9

Dify vs n8n: I Replaced a $600/Month Automation Bill With One of Them — and It's Not the One You'd Expect

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Aug 9

Quick Tip: Colab's Free GPU Is 10x Faster Than Your Laptop for LLM Fine-Tuning — Here's the 5-Minute Setup

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Aug 9

I Ran My Entire Side Project for $0 for 90 Days — The Free Tier Stack That Actually Held Up

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Aug 8

Continue vs Tabby vs MonkeyCode: I Installed All 3 Free Copilot Alternatives — One Clear Winner

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Aug 8

Quick Tip: Run Postgres for Free in 60 Seconds with Neon (Serverless, Scales to Zero)

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Aug 8

I Ran a 7B LLM for a Full Month on My Laptop — My Cloud AI Bill Went from $47 to $0

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Aug 7

I Ditched Paid AI APIs for Local Models — 3 Months of Real Numbers

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Aug 7

Quick Tip: Deploy a Scheduled Job on Cloudflare Workers for $0 (No Server Needed)

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Aug 7

A Small Reproducible Harness for Comparing Coding Models Before They Touch Your Repo

#ai #programming #testing #productivity

4 min read

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Aug 6

A Repeatable Harness for Evaluating Free AI Coding Models Before You Trust Them

#ai #programming #productivity #tutorial

5 min read

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Aug 6

Tabby vs GitHub Copilot: I Ran Both for 30 Days. One Cost $300/Year, One Cost $0.

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Aug 6

Quick Tip: Free Cron Jobs on Cloudflare Workers (No Server, No Bill)

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Aug 6

I Replaced My $25/Month Postgres with Neon's Free Tier. 6 Months Later, Zero Regrets.

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Aug 5

Prototype Multi-Agent Ideas on a Zero Budget: An Evaluation-First Workflow

#ai #agents #opensource #tooling

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Aug 5

Quick Tip: Deploy a Python API on Railway's Free Tier in 4 Commands

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Aug 5

I Switched from GitHub Copilot to Continue.dev. It Cost Me $0 and I Kept My Privacy.

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Aug 5

Stop Guessing: A Reproducible Harness for Evaluating Free LLM Access Before You Pay for Anything

#ai #llm #testing #python

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Aug 4

Quick Tip: Hugging Face Gives You Free GPU Inference — 5 Lines of Python, No Credit Card

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Aug 4

I Replaced My $20/Month Postgres with Neon's Free Tier. My Bill Is $0 — and Cold Starts Got Better.

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Aug 4

Your Prompt Experiments Are Burning API Budget. Build a Test Harness First.

#ai #tutorial #testing #productivity

4 min read

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Aug 3

Vercel vs Netlify vs Cloudflare Pages — I Deployed the Same Next.js App to All 3. One Clear Winner.

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Aug 3

Quick Tip — Run Llama 3.1 8B Locally with Ollama in 3 Commands (No GPU, No API Key)

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Aug 3

I Replaced My $50/Month Database Bill with Free Postgres. 6 Months, $0, Zero Downtime.

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Aug 2

I Ditched GitHub Copilot for a $0 Local Setup. Here's My Honest Review.

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Aug 2

I Tested Every Free GPU for AI in 2026. Only 3 Are Worth Your Time.

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Aug 2

I Replaced $97/Month of Cloud Bills with Free Tiers. My Invoice Is Now $0.

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Aug 1

Quick Tip: Ditch pip's venv Dance — uv Does It in One Command (10x Faster)

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Aug 1

I Deployed 5 Side Projects for $0/Month — My Exact Free-Tier Stack

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Aug 1

I Run 4 LLMs on My Laptop for $0 — Goodbye, $240/Year API Bills

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Aug 1

Google Colab Free Tier Is Criminally Underrated — I Fine-Tuned a 7B LLM for $0

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Aug 1

I Replaced My $59/Month Database Stack with Free Tiers — 3 Weeks Later, Zero Regrets

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Aug 1

I Run My Entire AI Coding Stack Locally for $0 — Here's the Exact Setup

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Aug 1

Quick Tip: Kill Nested-Dict Hell in Python with One Dataclass Pattern

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Jul 31

DeepSeek-V4 Just Dropped — Here's Why It's a Game-Changer

#ai #opensource #deepseek

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Jul 31

DeepSeek-V4 Just Dropped — Here's Why It's a Game-Changer

#ai #opensource #deepseek

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Jul 31

Test Your Agent Skills Before You Pay for Tokens: A Reproducible Evaluation Workflow

#ai #agents #productivity #tutorial

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Jul 29

This AI Copywriter Uses Real Copywriting Skills — Not Just Templates

#ai #opensource #copywriting

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Jul 29

Permanent Memory for AI Agents — This 426-Token Prompt Changes Everything

#ai #opensource #memory

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Jul 29

This Open-Source AI Agent Works Out of the Box — No Setup Required

#ai #opensource #agents

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Jul 29

Kimi K3 Just Dropped — 2.8T Parameters, Here's What You Need to Know

#ai #opensource #llm #kimi

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Jul 28

I Deleted GitHub Copilot and Saved $120/Year — Here's What I Use Instead

#ai #opensource #free #productivity

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