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Search & DiscoveryJune 16, 20269 min

How Hermes Agent Turns the Model Context Protocol Into a Self-Improving Powerhouse

A practical walkthrough of how the Model Context Protocol extends Hermes Agent's built-in learning loop and what it actually builds in practice.

The Problem Every AI Builder Hits There is a moment that every developer working with large language models eventually recognizes. The model generates beautiful HTML. It drafts clean Python. It answers a question with confidence and nuance. But the HTML has nowhere to go. The Python script needs a runtime environment, a database connection, an API key. The answer needs a citation, a data pull, a live webhook. Michael Egberts described this gap precisely in a May 28 DEV Community post: "The AI is fast. Everything...

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Search & DiscoveryJune 16, 202611 min

Authority of Jenny Bryan: How One Statistician Built the Most-Referenced Git Resource in Data Science

A data scientist at UBC and Posit turned a classroom into an open-source movement, and her Git introduction for researchers has quietly become the field's most-shared reference.

The Room Where It Started Somewhere in the Michael Smith Laboratories at the University of British Columbia, a statistician was trying to explain version control to a room full of graduate students who had never heard the word "commit" used as a verb. It was the early 2010s. Git was already well-established in software engineering circles, but in academic research departments particularly statistics it was still a foreign language. Jenny Bryan stood at the front of that room and did something that would prove...

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Search & DiscoveryJune 14, 202612 min

Defiance of Maciej Ceglowski's Pinboard

A programmer who watched Yahoo hollow out Delicious chose a different path building a link archive that charges users, refuses investors, and still earns $228,000 a year.

The Man Who Refused to Scale There is a particular kind of programmer who builds tools for themselves first, then discovers thousands of others need exactly what they needed. Maciej Ceglowski is that kind of programmer. In 2009, he watched the bookmarking service he had relied on for years Delicious, then owned by Yahoo undergo a redesign that prioritized mass appeal over the power-user features he cared about. Load times slowed. Tagging became unreliable. The interface changed, and kept changing. So Ceglowski did...

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