August 11, 2026
What Hermes Thinks I Do When I'm Not Talking To It
My job title says one thing. The files I leave behind tell a much messier story.
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July 7, 2026
The Twenty Minute Audit That Found Where Hermes Was Getting Lost
I kept upgrading my stack and Hermes kept getting confused. Twenty minutes looking at the right layer told me why.
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June 30, 2026
Tear Down Your AI Workflow and Rebuild It Like This
Most AI workflows produce 80% noise because people tend to connect tons of systems before validating them against what their work needs. Here's the one test that saves you days of configuration.
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June 23, 2026
Why My Best Hermes Workflow Consists Of Plain MD Files
I reorganized my vault so my agent could find things in thirty seconds. Boring fix, and it worked.
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June 2, 2026
Why AI Benchmarks Fail Real Hermes Agent Workflows
AI benchmarks measure clean tasks. Agent workflows test messy realities. Here is how I route Opus, GPT, Qwen, and GLM across a real Hermes workday.
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May 26, 2026
My Hermes AI Agent Maintenance Routine For Maximum Reliability
Copy-paste prompts for checking Hermes memory, gateways, scheduled jobs, model IDs, and backups before silent drift breaks your agent workflows.
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May 19, 2026
I Tested 6 AI Plans to Find What $5, $10 and $20 Get You
I ran six plans through Hermes to find out which ones finish the job and which ones just look cheap on the invoice.
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May 12, 2026
When to Use MCPs, CLIs, or Your Own Tool
A practical decision framework for choosing between MCPs, CLIs, and custom wrappers to give Hermes, or any other AI agent, the right interface instead of connecting every tool.
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May 5, 2026
How to Use Claude Code For Free With OpenCode Models
I built a Cloudflare Worker that lets Claude Code talk to OpenCode Go and Zen models, including free models like MiniMax M2.5 and Nemotron 3 Super.
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April 7, 2026
The $30 Hermes Stack That Makes Claude Max Look Like a Ripoff
Claude charges $200 per month for Cowork and Code, but it limits you mid session. Here’s the Hermes stack that beats both with unified system memory, file sync, blazing fast speed, and unlimited usage
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March 31, 2026
Hermes Is the AI Agent OpenClaw Promised to Be
Hermes is the AI agent I’d recommend to anyone starting today. Here’s how I migrated from OpenClaw.
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March 17, 2026
OpenClaw vs Claude Cowork vs Perplexity Computer - Which AI Agent Actually Fits Your Life
Three tools, three philosophies, one guide to help you choose.
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March 3, 2026
OpenClaw or Claude Cowork? Here's How to Plug Both Into the Same Brain
The self-hosted architecture that lets OpenClaw and Claude Cowork read and write from the same files in real time.
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February 24, 2026
The 'First Dollar' Stack
The First Dollar stack: Why React + Supabase + Cloudflare is the only V1 combo that doesn't waste your weekends.
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November 18, 2025
Your Landing Page Is Probably Over-Engineered
Here's how to stop losing visitors to slow load times by serving instant HTML with Astro instead of React.
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