Productivity

Why host your own repository As teams grow, pulling everything from Maven Central slows builds and wastes bandwidth. A Nexus-backed private repository solves this by caching dependencies, hosting internal artifacts, and letting you proxy regional mirrors for a smoother developer experience. Install Nexus 3 Download Nexus OSS 3.7+ (requires JDK 17). Unpack it and note two key paths: nexus-3.77.1-01/ # application binaries sonatype-work/nexus3/ # data and config Control the service with: ...

The idea Side projects deserve reliable LLM access too. Combine three generous free tiers—Aiven-hosted MySQL, a Docker-powered Hugging Face Space, and the open-source gpt-load gateway—to assemble a lightweight backend that rotates API keys and balances rate limits without extra spend. High-level flow: Client request │ ├─> Hugging Face Space (gpt-load container) │ └─ Reads the key pool from Aiven MySQL └─< LLM response after rotation Step 1: Provision Aiven MySQL https://aiven.io/ ...