AI Personal Assistant Playbook: Use Hermes/Xena Deliberately
A practical guide to delegating work, choosing tools and models, using skills and schedules, protecting privacy, and verifying outcomes.
Read entry →Personal guides on self-hosting, finance, AI, home lab experiments, and the systems that keep a house running smoothly. Written for reference, designed for focus.
Each collection holds a set of focused guides. Start with one and wander as far as you need.
Private infrastructure, containers, and cloud deployments.
→ 002Budgeting, tax prep, and personal financial systems.
→ 003Hermes, agents, and workflow automation.
→ 004Servers, networking, and experiments.
→ 005Routines, checklists, and decision logs.
→ 006Cheatsheets, commands, and glossaries.
→ 007Languages, patterns, debugging, and practical build workflows.
→These five are the ones I keep returning to. They've worked, they've been revised, and they still hold up.
Recent work from the home lab, recent deployments, and small experiments worth sharing.
A practical guide to delegating work, choosing tools and models, using skills and schedules, protecting privacy, and verifying outcomes.
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Read entry →A practical guide to ESPHome device design, YAML structure, OTA updates, diagnostics, security, and Home Assistant integration.
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