# AiSlackin

> Notes from the edge of AI, homelabs, and whatever else sticks.

## Posts
- [hed: the tiny C++ editor that replaces heredocs and makes agents happy](https://aislackin.com/posts/2026-09-27-hed-text-editor/index.md): A heredoc replacement, agent-friendly file tool, and nano-style editor in one static C++17 binary with zero runtime dependencies.
- [MoACubed: teaching Hermes which profiles actually work](https://aislackin.com/posts/2026-09-06-moacubed/index.md): MoACubed adds feedback, targeted retesting, and fixed baselines to learn which Hermes profiles are actually useful for different kinds of work.
- [Argus: the intel agent sheds its cron plumbing](https://aislackin.com/posts/2026-08-27-personal-intel-agent-upgrade/index.md): Argus now uses Hermes 0.21 native cron features and bounded GitHub discovery without letting repeated scans inflate its archive.
- [npu-monitor: a system tray that knows what hardware each box actually has](https://aislackin.com/posts/2026-08-21-npu-monitor-gpu-tray/index.md): A KDE tray monitor for CPU, GPU, and NPU utilization across multiple LAN hosts — with dynamic device discovery, mDNS auto-registration, and live bar-graph pop-outs.
- [hermes-shortcut-cheat-sheet: the shortcut list from source, not docs](https://aislackin.com/posts/2026-08-19-hermes-desktop-shortcuts/index.md): A complete, accurate keyboard cheat sheet for Hermes Desktop, generated straight from the app's keybind registry — every rebindable and fixed key, per-OS.
- [hermes-skills: a catalog for skills that survive machine rebuilds](https://aislackin.com/posts/2026-08-19-hermes-skills-catalog/index.md): A personal collection of Hermes Agent skills with a repeatable contribution path — template, catalog, one-command installer.
- [firefoxPrintAll: full-page captures of pages that refuse to scroll](https://aislackin.com/posts/2026-08-12-firefoxprintall/index.md): A Firefox extension that stitches viewport screenshots into one full-resolution image — including inner scrollable regions that body-level capture tools miss entirely.
- [slug-tts-stt: giving a mini-PC ears and a mouth, on two different chips](https://aislackin.com/posts/2026-08-06-slug-tts-stt-voice-service/index.md): Speech-to-text on the XDNA2 NPU and text-to-speech on the Radeon iGPU of one Ryzen AI box — split across accelerators so they never contend, measured and reboot-verified.
- [hmem: benchmarking the memory providers fighting for your agent's long-term recall](https://aislackin.com/posts/2026-08-04-agent-memory-providers/index.md): A research repo comparing 15 memory providers for Hermes Agent — with a measured benchmark of real adapters, not simulated scores, and a nightly scanner for new entrants.
- [hermes-sendme-file-transfer: teaching an AI agent to move files peer-to-peer](https://aislackin.com/posts/2026-07-30-sendme-file-transfer-skill/index.md): A Hermes Agent skill for SendMe, the iroh-based P2P transfer tool — ticket workflow, relay fallback, sensitive-file protections, and Termux interop.
- [quill-of-hermes: LAN OCR that eats PDFs and multi-page TIFFs](https://aislackin.com/posts/2026-07-30-quill-of-hermes-lan-ocr/index.md): A LAN web service wrapping OvisOCR2 GGUF and llama.cpp — images, PDFs up to 50 pages, and multi-page TIFFs in, Markdown out, with a Hermes skill on top.
- [karen_strikes_back: a five-persona review pod that tears your repo apart](https://aislackin.com/posts/2026-07-20-karen-strikes-back-review-pod/index.md): Five opinionated Hermes Agent profiles — an orchestrator plus four adversarial lenses — that review your code and UI in parallel and return one severity-ranked report.
- [hermes-proxmox-multihost: one skill, N standalone Proxmox servers](https://aislackin.com/posts/2026-07-17-proxmox-multihost-control/index.md): A Hermes Agent skill extending single-host Proxmox control to a fleet of independent VE servers — with per-host fault tolerance and secrets that never sit in plaintext.
- [Don’t be a tool fool](https://aislackin.com/posts/2026-07-03-dont-be-a-tool-fool/index.md): The worst version isn’t the charge you approved. It’s the meter you didn’t know was running.
- [wimpy-setup: a dual-GPU inference box you can rebuild from scripts](https://aislackin.com/posts/2026-06-28-wimpy-dual-gpu-inference/index.md): Reproducible setup scripts for a Ryzen 7700 bare-metal host running AMD R9700 and RTX 5060 Ti inference concurrently — llama.cpp twice, llama-swap once.
- [Giving Hermes an Efficient Soul](https://aislackin.com/posts/2026-06-25-giving-hermes-an-efficient-soul/index.md): A personality defined in one line of NEO-PI-R notation: cheaper, more precise, and portable.
- [csv2pg: CSV → PostgreSQL without the shell dance](https://aislackin.com/posts/2026-06-16-csv2pg/index.md): A standalone Python CLI that infers a Postgres schema from a CSV and loads it over the native COPY protocol — all in-process, one transaction.
- [curl | bash and the Slow Death of “Did You Read It?”](https://aislackin.com/posts/2026-06-14-curl-bash/index.md): We have built a tower of trust where every floor is just assuming the floor below it did the checking.