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Your way around Hermes Desktop: the map for everything that follows

A visual map of the Hermes Desktop interface — where everything lives, how the model picker works, and a cheat-sheet for every article that follows. Read this once, refer back when needed.

John Lock · September 1, 2026 · 8 min read

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Installing your first AI agent on Windows 11: Hermes Agent step by step

John Lock · August 23, 2026

Agentic AI

What is an agentic assistant, and why build your own

John Lock · August 22, 2026

Where curiosity meets clarity — articles for the kind of mind that asks "but why?" three times in a row.

AI

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Switching from Vibe AI to easy-mcp-ai — why I moved my WordPress MCP connector

Vibe AI got this series started, but rate limits and timeouts pushed me to easy-mcp-ai — a free, faster, self-hosted WordPress MCP…

John Lock · June 26, 2026

Extending the Yoast-MCP bridge to support pages — and the primary_category trap

Using my own Yoast-MCP bridge to build the series hub pages surfaced a 500 error. Here is the primary_category trap and the…

John Lock · May 19, 2026

How to run the Hermes AI agent in Docker on Windows 11 with an admin dashboard

Set up the Hermes AI agent in Docker on Windows 11 with a gateway container and an admin dashboard. Includes CLI chat,…

John Lock · May 15, 2026

Wordpress

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Switching from Vibe AI to easy-mcp-ai — why I moved my WordPress MCP connector

Vibe AI got this series started, but rate limits and timeouts pushed me to easy-mcp-ai — a free, faster, self-hosted WordPress MCP…

John Lock · June 26, 2026

Extending the Yoast-MCP bridge to support pages — and the primary_category trap

Using my own Yoast-MCP bridge to build the series hub pages surfaced a 500 error. Here is the primary_category trap and the…

John Lock · May 19, 2026

How to make Yoast SEO fields writable via MCP (step-by-step)

By default, Yoast SEO blocks REST API write access to its meta fields. This guide shows how to unlock them with a…

John Lock · May 13, 2026

Health

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Health

Acetaminophen vs ibuprofen: what painkillers actually do to your body

I stopped taking painkillers in 2020. Tracing the evidence taught me the occasional pill was never the problem — but paracetamol's safety…

John Lock · August 13, 2026

Health

How to improve HRV: what worked for me (with data)

An honest N=1 look at how my HRV rose from a 32 ms baseline to around 40 — what moved it, what…

John Lock · August 11, 2026

Health

HRV by age: normal ranges from peer-reviewed research

Peer-reviewed HRV reference values by age and sex, with the studies and methods attached — and why your wearable's number won't match…

John Lock · August 11, 2026

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