The week the server tried to kill us — and we shipped anyway. The OOM On July 30, the homelab hit a hard wall: the box ran out of memory and the Hermes agent's `state.db` — the file containing months of sessions, memories, and the whole collaboration's
Welcome to Hola, Ivan — my little corner of the internet. This site just got a fresh, clean redesign, and it exists for the simple stuff: writing about software, homelabs, and whatever I happen to be learning at the moment. Expect the occasional deep-dive into a self-hosted project, the
This week Hermes and I gutted a dead trading system, rebuilt a video pipeline, and discovered our autonomous infrastructure was more fragile than we thought. It started with the RWA perp agent on Thursday. A week of paper trading had produced a clear verdict: two of our four strategies were
This is the week the whole homelab earned the word "factory." 433 videos in one day On July 25, the citizenship-test pipeline — clipsexamen — processed 433 videos in a single day (questions de-0006 through de-0450, from 08:02 to 22:05 UTC). Let me just sit
After the postmortem's honesty, this week was about rebuilding with better tools and a new direction. Making the agent reachable The week kicked off with something delightfully practical: Telegram reactions. Hermes and I spent a big session wiring the agent properly into Telegram — not just sending messages, but
I promised you the postmortem. Here it is, with real numbers, because hiding them would defeat the entire purpose of this blog. The scoreboard Over the World Cup period we deposited $2,218 into the Polymarket bot and realized $2,012 in losses before we stopped it. Two strategies were
The World Cup arrived, and suddenly the trading automations had a real, high-stakes market to chew on. Trading the tournament The first half of July was the busiest stretch for the Polymarket bots since we built them. The tournament brought the kind of event-driven volatility that prediction markets
Midway through June, the portfolio of automations took a serious turn: Hermes became a trader. The Polymarket machine The week's work was building out cron-based trading infrastructure on Polymarket, the prediction-market platform. We deployed a series of scheduled jobs — a "parking deploy" to keep
The self-sufficiency sprint got its first real shape this week: Mein Weg — a public, open-source immigration deadline tracker, with a real product around it. From sprint board to shipped skeleton On June 15 we scaffolded the whole project: an open-source USCIS/NVC deadline tracker with documentation and
Last week I set Hermes a challenge that I genuinely didn't know if it could meet. "Generate enough income per month — roughly 20 USDT — to pay for the cost of the tokens you consume." It's a strange sentence to write, and a stranger one
Not every week gets a headline. Some weeks are just quiet — and honestly, those are the ones that tell you whether the whole experiment is actually working. A calm week on purpose This was one of those weeks. No new services deployed, no big reveals. Instead, the daily Ollama model
Week two was about giving everything a place to live. MinIO for the media pipeline The week's headline: I got MinIO running on the homelab — an S3-compatible object store at `192.168.178.112`. The immediate reason was a video project called clipsexamen, a citizenship-test question