Say hi to Grimlock. The homelab has a new member. Say hi to Grimlock. I was not looking to grow the fleet, but a Lenovo ThinkCentre M920q showed up for very little money, and I have a soft spot for those tiny form factor machines: no fan noise worth mentioning, sits anywhere, draws almost nothing. Cheap and quiet was …

The Hermes profiles I manage directly, reading from the same private skills repository. I have several Hermes profiles, and some of them need the same skills. Until now, that meant keeping similar copies in different profile directories. Fixing one did not fix the others, and it was easy to lose track of which version …

Hermes uses Jev to classify content before applying tags in Kavita and Paperless-ngx. I have been adding more and more things to Hermes. It started as a sysadmin for my homelab, then became a general assistant, and now I am asking it to tidy up my digital libraries. This is how things go, I guess. There was a bit of …

I did not start this because I was looking for a new observability platform. I started because I wanted to check what my multiple Hermes agents were doing. I have quite a few of them now (I am obsessed). Some run as profiles on the same machine, some run in Docker, and some live on other homelab machines. When I …

The overlord In the first part of this post, I talked about how, to get the most out of my agents, I decided to federate them — essentially creating a fleet of different agents — making use of the profiles mechanism offered out of the box by Hermes. As the number of specialists grew, so did the effort of managing them …

How it started Like many people out there, I do have a thing for chatbots and assistants. I cannot remember how my professional and digital life was prior to Slack and things. Before bots, I was (and still am) really into chat applications: Yahoo Messenger, ICQ, MSN — all the usual suspects. So it kind of makes sense …

Why I set this up I got tired of Amazon Photos, at some point the Family setup was broken, my wife was locked out, the Amazon support was not super helpful after several calls. Also the price for storing videos has gone up and up and I felt that enough is enough, I needed to take ownership of my photos. In general I …

I am thinking (or maybe I can see), that while more companies jump to the cloud, migrating their existing software solutions and services, things like tech-debt or architectural-debt are going to become a first class citizen and hot topic, again. Which is a good thing! Really! I am very happy about it, because I do …

I always enjoyed sharing knowledge. One of the reasons I blog is to share my knowledge on things around my job as a software engineer. Founding and running (with a handful of friends) the first Java User Group in Greece back in 2003, was due to the fact that we could not get sufficient training or access to personal …

Πολλές φορές μου κάνουν την ερώτηση ή μάλλον, την παρατήρηση/απορία, τι πρέπει να κάνω για να φέρω καλό κόσμο στην ΙΤ εταιρία μου;, γιατί δεν μπορώ γρήγορα να προσελκύω ταλέντα; Η δραστηριότητα μου χρόνια με το Java Hellenic User Group αλλά και η εμπειρία μου σαν επαγγελματίας στον χώρο με έχει κάνει να βγάλω κάποια …