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Journal

Life, work, and everything in between — a running record of building software and building a life in Dublin, Ireland.

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The 4-Rule Fix for Claude Code's Worst Habit: Guessing Instead of Asking

If you use Claude Code (or any AI coding agent) daily, you've probably run into these problems: It assumes what you meant instead of asking, then runs with the wrong assumption It turns a 50-line fix into a 500-line "fr

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Open-Source NotebookLM Alternatives: A Developer's Honest Comparison

Google NotebookLM is genuinely impressive. Drop in a pile of PDFs, research papers, or meeting transcripts and it produces grounded summaries, answers with citations, and — its most-talked-about trick — a sur

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AI, Agents & NASA

Tonight I attended an AI, Agents & NASA event at Trinity College Dublin. The talks focused on agent-based AI systems, scientific research workflows, and how organizations like NASA are exploring AI to accelerate know

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Reddit discussions feel increasingly hard to follow

Lately I’ve been spending more time reading Reddit during outages, breaking product updates, infrastructure incidents, and AI discussions. One thing I keep noticing: The same conversation fragments into dozens of s

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How I Cut My LLM Bill to Near Zero Without Changing a Single Line of App Code

I run 14 editorial AI workspaces. Here's how I added a self-hosted LLM proxy to cut paid API calls with no changes to my app code.

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🚀 Turn ~800M Free AI Tokens Into a Single OpenAI API

Just discovered a really clever open-source project: FreeLLMAPI The idea is simple but the execution is clean — aggregate free tiers from 14 major AI providers: Google Gemini · Groq · Cerebras &middot

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Building an AI Incident Analyst with Gemma 4 for Real-World Alert Fatigue

I’ve been building an automated alert and incident platform for websites and backend services recently. The original goal was simple: receive alerts from applications group duplicate incidents send notificati

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Idea2Post Agent Mode: turning a working content SaaS into an autonomous operator with Hermes

What I Built Idea2Post Agent Mode — a new autonomous "Agent" tab inside an already-shipped content SaaS (idea2post.app). The existing product is a one-shot generator: paste an idea, get hooks/blog/social posts

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Complete Hermes Agent Setup Guide

Complete Hermes Agent Setup Guide for Idea2Post & mentor.worrk Hermes Agent is one of the fastest ways to turn an AI content tool into an autonomous workflow system. Instead of generating content one prompt at a time

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🎙️ OmniVoice Studio — open-source local voice AI workspace for dubbing & cloning

I checked the repo. Before writing the intro, a few things in your draft don't match what's actually in the README — I'll flag them so the English version stays credible: Languages: 600, not 646. README says "600-

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Welcome to mentor.work

First post on mentor.work — a quiet log of building software in Europe.