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Luis Vera Systems engineer

Self-taught freelancer in Panama. I set up and look after Linux servers, networks, self-hosted apps, and the websites that run on them.

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Notes from running my own servers and building with coding agents.

Living with Hermes Agent on a small ARM server
October 2026 Luis Vera

Running Nous Research's Hermes Agent on the same server it helps me maintain, and where I still keep a hand on the wheel.

#AI #Agents #Hermes #Self-hosting
Skills I give coding agents so their pages don't look generated
October 2026 Luis Vera

Taste Skill, Impeccable, anti-slop, a humanizer, and a few design references. What each one fixes and how I combine them.

#Web Design #Frontend #AI #Agents
Three tools that give coding agents better input
October 2026 Luis Vera

Context7 for current library docs, MarkItDown for turning documents into Markdown, and agent-browser for letting an agent look at a real page.

#AI #Agents #Tools
How I lay out Docker Compose stacks on one server
October 2026 Luis Vera

One folder per stack, shared external networks, environment passed by name, and a proxy that only reaches what it should.

#Docker #Self-hosting #Linux
Traefik with Docker Compose, and why I write its config in TOML
September 2026 Luis Vera

Docker labels for simple routes, a watched folder of TOML files for everything else, and the YAML problems TOML doesn't have.

#Traefik #Docker #Self-hosting #TOML

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