https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/docs/user-guide/features/rl-training
Hermes is an evolutionary approach. Compared the DSPy agent model, which is programmatic / declarative.
DSPy for many of the use cases, is a lot of work (fine-tuning, debugging). DSPy excels at finance tasks or data analytics where you know all the details. But that is phase 2. Phase 1 is getting these details, and getting them fast. That is imho where Hermes comes in.
I can see myself using Hermes for
* Content tooling: auto-briefing, strategic foresight assessments.
* Intelligence analysis: method approaches to trend analysis or signals
* Individualization of content. OSINT, social media scraping, trend analysis.
* Data sensing, estimation on datasets, start simple
* Autoresearch (later), for example, for optimization solutions or performance debugging
Gova – The declarative GUI framework for Go
#HackerNews #Gova #GUI #Go #Framework #Declarative #Programming #Open #Source
kiviktnm/decman: Declarative package & configuration manager for Arch Linux.
"Decman is a declarative package & configuration manager for Arch Linux. It allows you to manage installed packages, your dotfiles, enabled systemd units, and run commands automatically. Your system is configured using Python so your configuration can be very adaptive."
After quite some time, I finally have all the pieces in place. Over the last 30 minutes, I’ve set up one of my servers from scratch. Here are some key changes:
- Reverse Proxy: Nginx with Modsecurity (WAF)
- Container Isolation: Every container runs in a seperate linux user
- Podman Quadlet: I rewrote all my compose stacks into quadlet files - now all containers are starting probably after reboot 🥳
- Grafana: Grafana's configuration is no managed by Opentofu which provitions at the moment the datasources (Grafana Loki and Prometheus) as well as the dashboards.
- Server hardening: Improved ssh configuration, firewall, permissions in general on this host
- Ansible: Everything is powered by ansible
- Certbot: Use wildcard certificates for my domains / subdomains for easier renew process
- Backups: All those services have proper backups configured which are timed with systemd timer and are replicated into my local homelab.
- Services that are running at the moment
- Grafana
- Prometheus
- Grafana Loki
- Grafana Alloy
- GitLab Runner
- some other services that I wanna migrate to this server
#homelab #sysadmin #linux #ansible #automation #devsecops #selfhosting #declarative #gitops #monitoring
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IMO it's one such really underrated feature of the NixOS. Imagine same #OS but very little extra storage for a different setup like #gaming, office, #mobile OS(in future maybe) etc all without dual or triple booting multiple OS🔥💪
More such use cases too. Like I want a specialisation with #cachyos #linux #kernel some options tweak for performance use case etc etc
Power of #declarative OS. And it's just one of the features of this awesome OS😁. The ecosystem is growing too
From #ContainerDays London to Barcelona: big thanks to the #DevOps BCN #Meetup for having me!
I revisited my talk on moving beyond imperative #Docker builds toward #Declarative, #Reproducible and #Secure #OCI #Containers with #Nix:
Hermetic, network-isolated builds, clearer dependency graphs, better layer reuse across images, and a stronger supply-chain story (#SBOM + #SLSA provenance).
Slides, transcript and more information at my website: https://www.arik-grahl.de/talks/devops-bcn-february-2026
Photography by @robertspang
On this week's #ITOps Query vodcast, #Microsoft corporate vice president and #Kubernetes project co-founder Brendan Burns envisions a long-term transition in the industry from #declarative cloud-native infrastructure to #intentbasedinfrastructure, facilitated by #AI.
In the short term, the impact of AI on enterprise infrastructure will be strongest in two major areas, according to Burns: reducing toil through automation and improving data summarization with natural language-based infrastructure exploration.
As enterprises adjust to these changes, Burns emphasized that IT leaders should get hands-on, firsthand experience with AI automation tools.
In today’s episode, we’ll cover…
-- The #KAITO #opensource project and #K8s evolution for AI
-- #AIgovernance and control
-- What needs to change about companies' mindsets to best use AI
and more!
#ContainerDays London was great!
Thank you for the interesting talks and inspiring exchange.
I will give my talk "Beyond #Docker Builds: #Declarative, #Reproducible and #Secure #OCI #Containers with #Nix" once again next week, on February 19th at the #DevOps #Meetup in Barcelona.
https://www.arik-grahl.de/talks/devops-bcn-february-2026/
There are still a few seats available: https://www.meetup.com/devops-bcn-group/events/312852703
In the talk “Beyond Docker Builds: Declarative, Reproducible and Secure OCI Containers with Nix” at DevOps BCN February 2026, Arik Grahl demonstrates how Nix enables fully declarative, reproducible OCI container builds, improving supply chain security, dependency management, and developer workflows.
What a great first day at #ContainerDays London.
Looking forward to see you tomorrow at 09:40 at my talk "Beyond #Docker Builds: #Declarative, #Reproducible and #Secure #OCI #Containers with #Nix".
In the talk “Beyond Docker Builds: Declarative, Reproducible and Secure OCI Containers with Nix” at ContainerDays London 2026, Arik Grahl demonstrates how Nix enables fully declarative, reproducible OCI container builds, improving supply chain security, dependency management, and developer workflows.
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