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AI Development Workflows

AI Release Radar: Build a Content Monitoring Workflow for Fast-Moving Tools

A public teaser guide for building an AI release radar that watches trusted sources, dedupes new updates, and turns important changes into sourced content briefs without auto-publishing.

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AI Development Workflows

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AI Development Workflows

AI Workflow Automation: Turn Bookmarks Into Shaped Business Tasks

A public teaser guide for turning raw X bookmark captures into Shape Up-style business tasks with Hermes, GitHub Issues, Discord review, and human approval gates.

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Codex CLI on a VPS: The Safer Foundation for an AI Coding Agent

A public teaser guide for setting up Codex CLI on a small VPS so your AI coding agent workflows have a reliable, private, always-on home.

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Discord Automation Bot: A Safe Control Room for Hermes AI Workflows

A public teaser guide for connecting a private Hermes/OpenClaw runtime to Discord so small-business AI workflow automation has commands, approvals, logs, and a human control room.

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Email Automation: Build an Approval-Gated AI Assistant for Gmail

A public teaser guide for using Hermes and Google Workspace as a safe AI email assistant that triages Gmail, drafts replies, checks calendar context, and waits for approval before side effects.

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Install Hermes/OpenClaw: A Private AI Agent Runtime on Your VPS

A public teaser guide for installing a private Hermes/OpenClaw-style AI agent runtime on a VPS with logs, health checks, systemd, and no public control port.

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Prepare a VPS for Hermes: A Self-Hosted AI Agent Setup Plan

A public teaser guide for preparing a VPS for Hermes-style workflow automation: directories, secrets, logs, systemd, and safe self-hosted AI agent boundaries.

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X API Automation: Turn Bookmarks Into an AI Workflow Inbox

A public teaser guide for using X/Twitter bookmarks as a controlled input stream for AI workflow automation without wasting API credits or flooding your GitHub inbox.

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GitHub Copilot Memory and Team Metrics: What Changed for AI Coding Workflows

GitHub shipped Copilot Memory for Pro and Pro+ users and expanded team-level usage metrics. Here is what builders should test, what to measure, and where this fits next to Codex and agent workflows.

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Best AI dictation tools for builder-to-agent workflows

A practical comparison of AI dictation tools for builders who talk through ideas, clean the transcript, and send precise instructions to Discord, Hermes, Codex, OpenClaw, or other coding agents.

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Codex Is Turning AI Coding Into a Mobile Approval Loop

OpenAI is putting Codex review and approval into the ChatGPT mobile app, while Codex CLI and Hermes Agent keep tightening the runtime underneath.

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GPT-5 + Codex CLI in 2026: Practical Workflows, Guardrails, and CI Patterns

A grounded guide to Codex CLI as it exists on April 2, 2026: current install and auth options, commands worth using, and where it actually helps if you are building a SaaS.

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