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Hermes Desktop: a GUI bolted onto a CLI AI agent
Field notes on fathah/hermes-desktop, an Electron front-end for the Hermes Agent. What it does, the tech stack, and the caveats before you install it.
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Paperclip: the app that wants to run a company on AI agents
Field notes on paperclipai/paperclip, an open-source Node/React orchestrator for teams of AI agents. What it does, how it runs, and where the 'zero-human company' pitch cracks.
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Making real MP4s with React: a PHP dev pokes at Remotion
A Drupal dev's field notes on Remotion, the React framework that renders real MP4s from components, where it's genuinely useful, and its unusual source-available licence.
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Superset.sh: an editor for herding parallel AI coding agents
Field notes on Superset.sh — a macOS app that runs Claude Code, Codex and friends in parallel git worktrees. What it does well, what it costs, and where it creaks.
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Ruflo field notes: the swarm formerly known as claude-flow
ruvnet's claude-flow is now Ruflo: a ~64k-star 'agent meta-harness' for Claude Code with swarms, vector memory and self-learning. I dug through the README, the hype, and the caveats.
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Field notes: Google Stitch, the free Gemini UI generator
I tried Google Stitch, the free Google Labs tool that turns prompts and sketches into UI designs and frontend code. Where it shines, where it falls flat, and how it compares to v0, Figma Make and Pencil.
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A Fruit Fly Brain Just Got a Body (Sort Of)
An essay claims the first "multi-behavior brain upload." I dug into what is real, what is hype, and why a simulated fly still made me stop scrolling.
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