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Hermes Mentor — A Local AI Agent That Gets You Out of Tutorial Hell

Aditya2d ago • 5 min read

Hermes Mentor — A Local AI Agent That Gets You Out of Tutorial Hell

This is a submission for the Hermes Agent Challenge: Build With Hermes Agent What I...

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Nicolas Fränkel1d ago • 5 min read

Seasons time-lapse - alignment

In the previous post, I described the Seasons project: a time-lapse of hundreds of pictures taken...

#python#art#timelapse

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Hermes Agent ran overnight and I woke up to a $47 bill — so I built a kill-switch

Orvi Das2d ago • 5 min read

Hermes Agent ran overnight and I woke up to a $47 bill — so I built a kill-switch

I gave Hermes Agent a research task before bed and woke up to a $47 bill. So I built a pre-flight ki...

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GCP: Upgrading a LINE Bot with Vertex AI ADK Tools for Smart Business Cards and Backup Search

Evan Lin2d ago • 8 min read

GCP: Upgrading a LINE Bot with Vertex AI ADK Tools for Smart Business Cards and Backup Search

Preface In the previous article, we successfully upgraded the LINE business card...

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Running a Full Multi-Stage Intrusion Simulation. Every Detection Fired.

GnomeMan42016d ago • 6 min read

Running a Full Multi-Stage Intrusion Simulation. Every Detection Fired.

I've been building SHENRON for a while — a polymorphic adversarial simulation framework that...

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A Curious Journey Into Reverse Engineering an AI-Generated Python .exe

Umitomo3d ago • 5 min read

A Curious Journey Into Reverse Engineering an AI-Generated Python .exe

Exploring the inside of a PyInstaller-based Python `.exe` built with generative AI — from FastAPI an...

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How I Caught and Fixed an N+1 Query in My Django REST API

Vicente G. Reyes6d ago • 3 min read

How I Caught and Fixed an N+1 Query in My Django REST API

Every performant API eventually runs into the same silent killer: the N+1 query problem. It doesn't....

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Post-Mortem: Why My Blog Cover Images Silently Failed to Restore from S3

Vicente G. ReyesMay 22, 2026 • 4 min read

Post-Mortem: Why My Blog Cover Images Silently Failed to Restore from S3

Six blog posts on my portfolio had broken cover images for longer than I'd like to admit. The images...

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I Built an AI-Powered PC Monitor in Python. 28 Strangers Shaped Its Brain. PC Workman 1.7.6

Marcin Firmuga21h ago • 7 min read

I Built an AI-Powered PC Monitor in Python. 28 Strangers Shaped Its Brain. PC Workman 1.7.6

I built an AI-powered PC monitor in Python. 28 strangers shaped its brain. This article is about PC....

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I Got Tired of Forgetting. So I Built PwnLog.

Nimesh Thakur5d ago • 2 min read

I Got Tired of Forgetting. So I Built PwnLog.

Every bug hunter knows the feeling. You're deep in a session. You find something weird — an IDOR, a...

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I couldn't reproduce the bug because I had no record of what tool calls my Hermes agent made.

Mukunda Rao Katta3d ago • 2 min read

I couldn't reproduce the bug because I had no record of what tool calls my Hermes agent made.

A zero-dep Python lib that logs every LLM tool call and its result to a JSONL file — name, args, res...

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I built an AI PR-triage agent in 30 lines of Markdown

Arthur4d ago • 7 min read

I built an AI PR-triage agent in 30 lines of Markdown

This is a submission for the Google I/O Writing Challenge A recipe for the AI PR-triage agent I...

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My agent started lying. It took me two days to realize the system prompt had changed.

Mukunda Rao Katta3d ago • 3 min read

My agent started lying. It took me two days to realize the system prompt had changed.

A zero-dep Python lib that hash-pins a system prompt and detects drift — so you know immediately whe...

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My Hermes agent ran for 2 hours, hit a timeout at turn 89, and I had to start over. Now it checkpoints.

Mukunda Rao Katta3d ago • 2 min read

My Hermes agent ran for 2 hours, hit a timeout at turn 89, and I had to start over. Now it checkpoints.

A zero-dep Python lib that writes one JSONL record per agent turn so you can resume after a crash in...

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After every Hermes agent run, I print a 10-line summary. Now I know exactly what happened.

Mukunda Rao Katta3d ago • 2 min read

After every Hermes agent run, I print a 10-line summary. Now I know exactly what happened.

A zero-dep Python lib that reads a JSONL agent trace and prints a compact summary — event count, err...

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The Django Singleton Model: How to Manage Page Headers Without a CMS

Vicente G. Reyes2d ago • 5 min read

The Django Singleton Model: How to Manage Page Headers Without a CMS

I've always wondered how to handle those single-record things in a CMS-driven site. You know what I....

#python#django#webdev#tutorial

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How I Added Live Charts to the Django Admin Without Installing a Single Package

Vicente G. Reyes1d ago • 4 min read

How I Added Live Charts to the Django Admin Without Installing a Single Package

The Django admin is a powerful tool that most developers underuse. Out of the box it gives you a...

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My agent kept forgetting what it was doing. A scratchpad fixed it.

Mukunda Rao Katta3d ago • 2 min read

My agent kept forgetting what it was doing. A scratchpad fixed it.

A zero-dep Python lib for agent working memory — keyed notes, lists, counters, prompt injection, and...

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FocusForge — An On-Device Agentic Learning System for the Attention Crisis Generation

MEHBOOB ELAHI6d ago • 10 min read

FocusForge — An On-Device Agentic Learning System for the Attention Crisis Generation

This is a submission for the Gemma 4 Challenge: Build with Gemma 4 What I Built <#...

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Cómo Evaluar Agentes IA: Tutorial de LLM-as-Judge

Elizabeth Fuentes L2d ago • 13 min read

Cómo Evaluar Agentes IA: Tutorial de LLM-as-Judge

Evalúa la calidad de agentes IA con LLM-as-Judge y análisis de trayectorias. Detecta fallos silencio...

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Claude's extended thinking is useful. Sending raw <thinking> tags to users is not.

Mukunda Rao Katta3d ago • 2 min read

Claude's extended thinking is useful. Sending raw <thinking> tags to users is not.

A zero-dep Python lib that strips thinking/scratchpad tags from LLM responses — raw text and Anthrop...

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Serverless Research Paper Intelligence: Docling, Lambda Containers, and Amazon Bedrock

Romina Elena Mendez Escobar2d ago • 20 min read

Serverless Research Paper Intelligence: Docling, Lambda Containers, and Amazon Bedrock

1.🚀 Introduction Processing scientific PDFs is not as simple as extracting text. Many...

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My Hermes agent ran 500 turns and cost $40 before I noticed. Now it can't.

Mukunda Rao Katta3d ago • 2 min read

My Hermes agent ran 500 turns and cost $40 before I noticed. Now it can't.

A zero-dep Python lib that puts a hard turn cap on your LLM agent loop — with configurable warning t...

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Sanjeet Singh Jagdev5d ago • 4 min read

Understanding Parsers by Building One

Inspiration I have always been fascinated by compilers and interpreters and their ability...

#programming#softwareengineering#computerscience#python

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Hermes Mentor — A Local AI Agent That Gets You Out of Tutorial Hell

Seasons time-lapse - alignment

Hermes Agent ran overnight and I woke up to a $47 bill — so I built a kill-switch

GCP: Upgrading a LINE Bot with Vertex AI ADK Tools for Smart Business Cards and Backup Search

Running a Full Multi-Stage Intrusion Simulation. Every Detection Fired.

A Curious Journey Into Reverse Engineering an AI-Generated Python .exe

How I Caught and Fixed an N+1 Query in My Django REST API

Post-Mortem: Why My Blog Cover Images Silently Failed to Restore from S3

I Built an AI-Powered PC Monitor in Python. 28 Strangers Shaped Its Brain. PC Workman 1.7.6

I Got Tired of Forgetting. So I Built PwnLog.

I couldn't reproduce the bug because I had no record of what tool calls my Hermes agent made.

I built an AI PR-triage agent in 30 lines of Markdown

My agent started lying. It took me two days to realize the system prompt had changed.

My Hermes agent ran for 2 hours, hit a timeout at turn 89, and I had to start over. Now it checkpoints.

After every Hermes agent run, I print a 10-line summary. Now I know exactly what happened.

The Django Singleton Model: How to Manage Page Headers Without a CMS

How I Added Live Charts to the Django Admin Without Installing a Single Package

My agent kept forgetting what it was doing. A scratchpad fixed it.

FocusForge — An On-Device Agentic Learning System for the Attention Crisis Generation

Cómo Evaluar Agentes IA: Tutorial de LLM-as-Judge

Claude's extended thinking is useful. Sending raw <thinking> tags to users is not.

Serverless Research Paper Intelligence: Docling, Lambda Containers, and Amazon Bedrock

My Hermes agent ran 500 turns and cost $40 before I noticed. Now it can't.

Understanding Parsers by Building One