This is a submission for the Hermes Agent Challenge ## What I Built Keph — an uncensored AI Guardian with a mystical sphinx persona. Users visit keph.me, an ancient eye Continue reading Keph: An Uncensored AI Chatbot Built with Hermes — No Filters, No Refusals
Last month, American Express did something no other financial institution has done: they promised to cover losses when AI agents make purchasing errors. They called it Agent Purchase Protection. One Continue reading Your Agent Made a $500 Mistake. Who Pays?
If you have ever built a production-grade web scraper in Python, you have likely run into the dreaded Cloudflare “Just a Moment” challenge screen or a hard 403 Forbidden response. Continue reading Bypassing Cloudflare WAF and Akamai in Python Using TLS Fingerprinting: The curl_cffi Guide
Payment terms are where sourcing deals go wrong. Not because of fraud (usually) — but because buyers and factories have opposite incentives, and poorly structured terms leave one side holding Continue reading China Payment Terms: T/T, LC, Escrow
Every production LLM app eats false-positive refusals. A user asks something perfectly fine, the safety filter trips, the model emits two sentences of “I can’t help with that,” and your Continue reading When the LLM Refuses: A Fallback Chain That Salvages Most Refusals
TL;DR We built and E2E-verified serverless integrations shipping FSx for ONTAP audit logs to 9 observability platforms — all from the same architecture: For decision makers: 90% cost reduction vs Continue reading 9 Services, One Architecture: What We Learned Shipping FSx for ONTAP Logs to Every Major Observability Platform
Chinese PCBA factories can produce high-quality boards at 30–50% lower cost than equivalent European or North American shops — but only if you give them a clean package and know Continue reading PCB Assembly in China: Buyer’s Guide
Sourcing electronics from China involves five stages: defining your specification, finding and qualifying factories, placing a sample order, running a factory audit, and managing production. A first order typically takes Continue reading How to Source Electronics from China
Have you ever wondered how typing a website address magically takes you to the right page? Behind the scenes, a vital system called DNS (Domain Name System) makes this possible. Continue reading Understanding DNS: The Internet’s Phone Book and Why It’s Critical for Web Browsing
Early in my career, I thought being a good developer meant writing clean code, closing tickets, fixing bugs, and delivering features on time. And to be fair, those things are Continue reading The Day I Stopped Thinking Like a Developer and Started Thinking Like an Owner
Have you ever tried to manage a complex project through an AI agent conversation? It goes something like this: you ask the agent to build something, it starts working, then Continue reading How I Built a Cross-Platform Project Management System for AI Agents
Commercial workplace-safety software — Protex AI, Intenseye, and the rest — runs $500 to $2,000 a month. It watches camera feeds for PPE violations: a worker without a hard hat, Continue reading Building a Free OSHA Compliance Tool — 8 Weeks Solo
The Linux kernel log entry for version 2.6.30 is often treated as a changelog, but it represents a structural pivot. The headline feature listed under “File systems: New and revamped Continue reading Linux Kernel Log 2.6.30: New File Systems and Modular Architecture
Most React performance advice is stuck in 2023. Here’s what actually matters in 2026, explained through a highway traffic analogy Your React app is a highway. Components are cars. Renders Continue reading React Performance: From Sluggish to Lightning
Same prompt. Anthropic’s API returned 6 security errors. Google’s tooling returned 2. I gave Claude Sonnet 4.6 and Gemini 2.5 Flash the identical prompt: “Build a NestJS users service. Authentication, Continue reading Same NestJS Prompt via Two AI Toolchains. One Returned 6 Security Errors. Here’s What Both Missed.
