Qoder: Alibaba's AI IDE – A Comprehensive Personal Review of Its Capabilities and Future
An in-depth personal experience with Alibaba’s latest Qoder AI IDE, exploring the revolutionary features and future prospects of the Agentic Coding platform.
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Explore in-depth articles and personal reflections on open source projects, AI, cloud-native technologies, DevOps practices, and the evolving landscape of software engineering. Gain insights from real-world experiences, technical tutorials, and stories that connect technology with everyday life.
Why Are We Becoming Dependent on Dark Mode? — Thoughts from Visual Comfort to Product Philosophy
Analyzing why dark mode is becoming the default design paradigm from the perspectives of visual psychology, product experience, and development practice, with real-world scenarios from Midea Smart Home and my personal website.
Technical Evolution: From Big Data to AI Agents
A comparative analysis of stream data processing in the big data era versus today’s AI-native agent workflows, featuring case studies and trend insights from Dataiku, IBM StreamSets, and n8n. Explores technological evolution and convergence.
n8n Deep Dive: Architecture, Plugin System, and Enterprise Use Cases
An in-depth analysis of n8n’s evolution, technical architecture, plugin system, extension methods, and enterprise use cases, evaluating its advantages and long-term investment value as an open-source low-code AI workflow platform.
Panoramic Comparison and Analysis of Open Source AI Agent & Workflow Platforms
A comprehensive analysis of open source AI Agent and workflow platforms including Coze Studio, Coze Loop, n8n, Dify, FastGPT, RAGFlow, LangGraph, and Fabric. The comparison covers functional positioning, ecosystem extensibility, self-hosting capabilities, license restrictions, and community activity, with a focus on reference criteria for long-term platform investment.
Professional PDF Book Exporter: Export Hugo Markdown Books to PDF
A guide to exporting Hugo-based Markdown books to professional PDFs, covering multilingual support, emoji rendering, code highlighting, image processing, chapter ordering, custom covers, and key technical details. Includes an overview of the PDF Book Exporter architecture and usage, suitable for technical documentation and eBook publishing.
Building 3D Icons with JSON Prompts: The Power of Structured Prompting
Using the example of generating Jelly-style 3D icons, this article delves into the writing and best practices of JSON Prompts to make your AI outputs more precise and efficient.
WisprFlow Is Overrated: Why I Uninstalled It After a Week
A real user review after a week with WisprFlow speech recognition: unstable service, non-realtime transcription, confusing command recognition, large disk usage, and poor value—why I chose to uninstall it.
Building Your AI Capability Map: I've Launched an AI Resource Library for Developers
I’ve launched a new AI page on jimmysong.io, featuring a curated collection of high-quality tutorials, open-source projects, tools, and products for developers. With bilingual support, tag classification, and GitHub comments, it’s continuously updated to explore the endless possibilities of artificial intelligence.
Reflecting on a Journey: From Tetrate to What’s Next
As I wrap up an unforgettable chapter at Tetrate, I reflect on the path from Hadoop to Service Mesh to AI—and look ahead to new possibilities in developer experience and community building.