Notes from the work.
Notes about software engineering, system design, data, and AI-assisted development. The decisions that rarely fit in a project card belong here.
Recording Finances in a Spreadsheet with Hermes
How Hermes maps messages to cashflow rules, prepares reviewable drafts, requests confirmation, and writes and verifies spreadsheet transactions.
Organizing Coding Workflows with Hermes Projects
How to connect a Git repository to a Hermes Project, prepare its runtime and dependencies, and run validation from consistent working context.
How I render Markdown and Mermaid in React
The rendering pipeline I use for safe Markdown, highlighted code, and responsive Mermaid diagrams.
Designing an MCP tool call I can trace
How I separate protocol handling, database adapters, and public errors in a small MCP query server.
Installing Hermes Agent and Understanding Its Architecture
A complete guide to installing Hermes Agent and understanding profiles, skills, tools, gateway, schedules, Kanban, memory, and agent architecture.
A monorepo as a context boundary for AI
What changed when I put contracts, backend, frontend, and tests in one workspace for AI-assisted development.