Posts from 2026

Posts on Hermes Agent, Home Assistant, Bun, and AI Tools from 2026.

July 6, 2026

GLM Is Cheap. Steering It Isn't.

GLM costs a fraction of Opus per token. OpenCode's Plan/Build toggle doesn't cut that cost back down — it just moves it.

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July 1, 2026

I Can't Avoid the Price Gap Anymore

My company merged separate AI tool budgets into one shared pool. That's when Opus versus GLM stopped being an abstract question.

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May 30, 2026

Thread Claims Interoperability. Your Network Has Three Meshes.

dns-sd exposes what smart home apps hide: Apple, Amazon, and eero each run separate Thread meshes on the same network, and devices on different meshes route through Wi-Fi instead of communicating directly.

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May 27, 2026

Grouping Lights in Home Assistant

How to group color lights in Home Assistant using Helpers — and why the old YAML platform approach stopped working in 2026.5.

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May 19, 2026

Tripsy Now Has a CLI (and an MCP)

Tripsy released an official CLI and MCP server in May 2026. The CLI is the better tool. Everything I documented for the SQLite approach is now unnecessary.

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May 18, 2026

Self-Hosting Papra with Docker Compose on a NAS

Papra is a self-hosted document manager that installs cleanly — except for a silent SQLite permissions failure that breaks registration with no useful error.

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May 15, 2026 Fitbit Air: The Apple Watch I Actually Wear to Bed

Fitbit Air: The Apple Watch I Actually Wear to Bed

I ordered a Google Fitbit Air to track sleep. The Apple Watch stays on the nightstand.

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April 30, 2026

How to Connect Hermes Agent to Home Assistant

Two environment variables and a gateway restart. I said 'turn off all my lights' and they went off two seconds later.

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April 29, 2026 How to Run Hermes Agent on a UGREEN NAS with Docker

How to Run Hermes Agent on a UGREEN NAS with Docker

Step-by-step setup for Hermes Agent on a UGREEN NAS using Docker, including the permissions fix that breaks the install silently if you skip it.

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April 22, 2026

Your Linter Needs to Be as Fast as Your AI

AI writes code faster than you can review it. ESLint validates slower than it needs to. Biome fixes the mismatch.

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