Asides

August 25, 2026

14:11

qmd - Local Document Search Engine

A local command-line search engine for documents, knowledge bases, and meeting notes. It indexes personal content locally and supports current retrieval approaches.

August 20, 2026

15:17

Hermes Desktop - Desktop Companion

A community-maintained desktop companion for Hermes Agent, with a graphical interface for agent conversations, provider configuration, and local or remote Hermes installations. It also includes an installer and support for connecting to Docker-backed Hermes deployments over SSH.

August 19, 2026

11:52

PSEi is getting hammered today: down 2.11% to 6,132.83 as renewed US–Iran tensions push oil higher and weaken the peso. Decliners lead advancers 105–43, with every major sector in the red. Strait of Hormuz risk + foreign selling = a very ugly morning for Philippine equities.

August 15, 2026

00:57

Securo - Self-hosted Personal Finance Manager

Open-source, privacy-first personal finance manager with multi-account tracking, running balances, transaction management, cash-flow views, and imports for OFX, QIF, CAMT, and CSV. Designed for self-hosting and licensed under AGPL-3.0.

August 14, 2026

23:50

JumpKey - Keyboard-driven Service Startpage

A minimalist, keyboard-driven local-first PWA startpage for organizing and launching services. Supports configurable service links, icons, workspaces, standalone serving, automatic backups, and integration behind Caddy or other reverse proxies.

August 13, 2026

15:46

MindsHub - AI Agent Workspace

Desktop workspace for delegating projects to AI models, connecting business data sources, creating shareable artifacts, and scheduling recurring agent tasks. Supports model routing and multiple agent harnesses.

13:58

OpenMessage - Local-First Messaging Workspace

Open-source, local-first inbox for Google Messages, WhatsApp, and Signal on macOS or a local web UI. Includes an MCP server so compatible agents can query and send messages through the local runtime.

August 12, 2026

12:57

Claude CoWork vs ChatGPT Work - Early Reflections

A non-coder compares a Claude CoWork setup with ChatGPT Work after importing skills and workflows. It covers subscription and model trade-offs, project and knowledge-management workflows, desktop voice, plugins versus GPTs, shared-memory experiments, and the importance of human review.

August 8, 2026

18:00

I use #Hermes as a personal AI chief of staff and automation layer. It manages my Todoist tasks, priorities, reminders, and follow-ups; researches current news, products, apps, sports, and investments; helps monitor and run my self-hosted servers, Docker apps, backups, and media stack; organizes my bookmarks, notes, and documents; and builds workflows across APIs, webhooks, MCP servers, and scheduled jobs. It can also process things like lottery tickets, track personal data in my systems, draft messages, and handle technical troubleshooting—so I can manage a lot of personal operations through a single chat.

August 7, 2026

22:25

GitHub Release Monitor - Self-Hosted Release Notifications

A self-hosted application that monitors releases from GitHub, GitLab, Codeberg, and Forgejo repositories, then sends notifications through email or Apprise-supported channels such as Telegram, Discord, and Slack. Useful for tracking software updates across repositories without manually checking each project. The repository currently has 333 GitHub stars.