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Hermes Agent · Episode 2 September 14, 2026 · 6 minAutomating a job watch with a self-hosted AI agent and MCP
Part two of the 'Hermes Agent' series: plugging an AI agent into an existing tool through its MCP server, writing the brief for a scheduled task, and what to plan for so it doesn't write junk into your database.
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Hermes Agent · Episode 1 August 27, 2026 · 16 minSelf-hosting a persistent AI agent: Hermes Agent on your own VM
Part one of the 'Hermes Agent' series: running Hermes Agent on your own VM — Proxmox, VPS or local hypervisor. Docker Compose, secrets, firewall, HTTPS, and the traps that leave a deployment green while nothing works.
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April 25, 2026 · 7 minMy laptop as code: a DevOps approach to setting up my workstation
Why I stopped configuring my laptop by hand. Ansible, mise, uv, direnv, Ansible Vault, pre-commit and a Vagrant smoke test to bootstrap a Debian/Ubuntu workstation reproducibly.
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March 31, 2026 · 6 minKandidat — I needed an application tracker, so I designed and deployed it the DevOps way
I needed a tool to structure my job search in Guadeloupe. I designed and built it with Claude Code as support, then automated its deployment on my homelab by putting DevOps culture into practice.
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March 30, 2026 · 9 minMy homelab: from Proxmox to Kubernetes, fully automated
How I built an Infrastructure as Code monorepo to manage my entire homelab — Proxmox, Docker, Kubernetes, WireGuard, Pi-hole — with Terraform and Ansible.
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