Quick Links for Devs: Week 28, 2026
Build and ship Mac and iOS apps without ever opening Xcode, using XcodeGen and terminal scripts
Jacob E. Dawson
Thoughts, stories, and ideas from Jacob E. Dawson
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The Line of Perfect
Moving the goalposts as AI improves and we travel into the unknown
Quick Links for Devs: Week 27, 2026
Tokenmaxxing was deliberate, Claude Sonnet 5 narrows the Opus gap, Tyler Cowen on who wins and loses, AI diagnosis vs fixes, and Qwen 3.6 makes local dev practical
Setting Up Mem0 OSS Memory for Hermes Agent
Adding self-hosted Mem0 memory to Hermes Agent with pgvector and Ollama, plus the footguns I hit along the way
How I Set Up Hermes Agent on a Hetzner VPS
A walkthrough of setting up Nous Research's Hermes Agent on a Hetzner CX23 box — OpenRouter, Telegram gateway, Obsidian sync, cron jobs, and the skills that make it feel like home
Quick Links for Devs: Week 26, 2026
GPT-5.6 lands with a government gate, open-weight models undercut frontier labs by 50x, why even the rich won't survive AI, and why your font-family stack is probably wrong
5 Quick Links for Devs: Week 20, 2026
Saying goodbye to Tailwind, a 7-line programming language and TanStack plays compromise bingo
5 Quick Links for Devs: Week 19, 2026
The silent information we pass on the net, a history of vi, and just use Go man
5 Quick Links for Devs: Week 18, 2026
Github's demise, the societal effects of AI, and how we process the rich sludge that powers the globe
5 Quick Links for Devs: Week 17, 2026
Claude degrades, don't outsource your thinking, and a lovely bit of concrete
5 Quick Links for Devs: Week 16, 2026
Programming still sucks, OS rocks, Claude loses some lustre
5 Quick Links for Devs: Week 15, 2026
The perils of laziness lost, Mythos or myth, and can you put OS X on a Wii?
5 Quick Links for Devs: Week 14, 2026
Gemma 4 rocks, Claude open source leaked, and the machines will be fine, but what about us?
5 Quick Links for Devs: Week 13, 2026
TypeScript 6 drops, how to slow down when everything is speeding up, Auto Mode for Claude and a new take on version control
5 Quick Links for Devs: Week 12, 2026
We still need to code, LLM fatigue is upon us, maybe you don't need semicolons, and JS is still bloated!
5 Quick Links for Devs: Week 11, 2026
A little dash of AI and a few updates from the world of Vim!
5 Quick Links for Devs: Week 10, 2026
GPT 5.4 releases, who reviews the reviewers, and making a button in 2026
5 Quick Links for Devs: Week 9, 2026
Tinkering on family dashboards, LLMs debating each other, and why writing code is cheap now
5 Quick Links for Devs: Week 8, 2026
Some delicious split keyboards, another day another frontier LLM release, and a sprinkling of CSS
5 Quick Links for Devs: Week 7, 2026
The overwhelming complexity of everything, another IDE I will eventually try again, and new models from Google & OpenAI