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Hermes is an open-source AI agent that runs on a server, remembers across sessions, and builds reusable skills over time. The shift it represents: AI moving from something you summon to something that runs.
I like to think of client-side applications as empty shells that get populated with data and where the source of that data can be anything:
Team building is an important part for any company and maybe even more if the team you’re working with is spread out over the
Last updated: December 2020 By now you’ve probably heard about this new cool tool on the block called Webpack. If you haven’t looked
Sometimes you see simple interfaces with a getter and a setter for a specific type of object. Some examples are league/event‘s EmitterAwareInterface and
Some time ago I started working on an existing project, so I read the documentation before diving in. At the top of the contributing.md
After Laracon US in Louisville, Kentucky, a few weeks ago it was time for Laracon EU this week. For the third time in a row
Return type hinting is great! When I use my IDE and experiment with classes that I haven’t used before, I really love that it
SDKs I like using SDKs when I’m creating prototypes. It’s super easy to get started. You copy and paste some code samples, fill
A couple of weeks ago we started a closed beta for Changehub, so it’s a good time to give an introduction to this tool
With PHP you can, next to handling HTTP requests, invoke scripts from the command line. For a typical web application this could be used to
Laravel is awesome. Not just the framework, but its ecosystem. Let me walk you through it and show some of the beauties arround this community.
Our previous blog post covered tips on code style fixing while working on legacy projects. The blog post was very generic and the ideas are
Legacy projects Old projects (maybe even 6 months or less) often come without test suites, are tightly coupled with an outdated version of a framework
When installing a dependency, we are used to installing a version that adheres to a known public interface and does what it promises. That way
Last week, Elasticsearch organised their first conference dedicated to the ELK stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana). Two days filled with sessions about search, going from in-depth
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