Rambling on Tech
Thoughts and rambles on AI tools, LLMs, and automation for people who use love tech but don't have CS degrees.
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2026 · 11
- Hermes Felt Slow on My New Mac Hermes felt slower after I moved it to a Mac Studio. We traced it to side jobs running on Opus, moved them to cheaper models, then tested the fix and caught a fast model approving a database drop.
- Setting Up a Mac for Agents I had Hermes read my new Mac Studio and my old Mac mini, then write a setup checklist. Here is what carries over to any Mac set up for agents consider using it for your own setup.
2026 · 10
- The TV no longer spy's on us On September 6, Gamers Nexus published packet captures of LG TVs scanning home networks and buffering voice audio. The community found a root and I took advantage of freeing my TV.
- A CVE Email Turned Into a Server Cleanup Day DigitalOcean flagged a Node.js Brotli RCE on my droplet. I pointed Claude Code at the box, asked for a report before any fixes, and ended the day patched, locked down and 13 GB lighter.
- Co-Intelligence, in Practice Five rounds, twelve images and one share card: what building a brand with an agent actually looks like.