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Stop Pasting API Keys and Bank Cards into LLM Relays: A Guide to Self-Hosted Privacy Gateways

Mon, 31 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0800

Using a third-party LLM relay to access Claude, GPT, or Gemini is cheap and convenient—but have you considered this: the relay operator can see every single word you send to the model. That includes API keys you casually paste in, bank card numbers, login passwords, ID numbers, medical records… all sitting in someone’s server logs, in plaintext. This isn’t paranoia—it’s architecture. A relay is fundamentally a reverse proxy: your request hits their server, gets unwrapped

I Turned 148 GitHub Repos Into 'Can't Lose Them All': A Full 3-2-1 Backup Retrospective

Mon, 24 Aug 2026 09:00:00 +0800

I counted the repos in my own GitHub account: 148 total—126 private, 22 public—with 3 forks mixed in. Just the repo objects (not counting metadata) amount to over 3 GB. Five-plus years of commit history, unfinished experimental code, automated scripts still running—all there. Then I stared at that number for a while and asked myself a question: If this account vanished tomorrow, what would I still have? The answer made me uncomfortable. So last week I spent an all-nighter turning those repos int

Installing a Control Plane for 'Script + Cron + Agent' Black-Box Automation: A Survey of 12 Platforms

Sun, 23 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0800

TL;DR: What I need isn’t another orchestration tool, but a Control Plane—a coordination layer that answers in one place: which workflow, which version, which run, which step failed, how many retries, when’s the next run. cron only knows how to “knock on time” and then walks away. After surveying 11 platforms, my pick: Windmill first choice, Kestra co-selected; n8n/Temporal/Argo explicitly rejected; Hermes demoted to “scheduled agent” instead of scheduler.

RSS to Social Media Auto Distribution: A Panoramic Survey of Open-Source Projects (The Peers of LynxPipe)

Sat, 22 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0800

TL;DR: There’s no single open-source project that handles “RSS aggregation → processing → social distribution” end-to-end, but every layer has mature tools. The combination closest to LynxPipe’s full form is RSSHub (sources) + Huginn/n8n (processing) + Postiz (distribution), with a combined star total exceeding 280k. Here’s the full research: each project’s star count (measured via GitHub API on 2026-08-22), RSS capabilities, and supported social channels.

Hermes vs OpenClaw: Which Self-Hosted AI Agent Harness in 2026

Fri, 31 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0800

The two rising self-hosted agent harnesses Hermes and OpenClaw are two open-source, self-hostable AI agent harnesses attracting growing attention in 2026. Both let you run an agent that talks to humans across messaging channels, calls tools, and maintains state — but they differ in language, philosophy, and ecosystem. Dimension Hermes OpenClaw Repo NousResearch/hermes-agent openclaw/openclaw Version (2026-07-31) 0.16.0 2026.7.1-2 Language Python Node.js / TypeScript License MIT MIT One-liner The

Self-Hosted AI Agent Landscape 2026

Fri, 31 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0800

Two categories that get conflated “AI agent” in 2026 covers two very different things, and mixing them up causes most bad choices: Build-your-own frameworks — libraries you code against to assemble an agent (LangGraph, CrewAI, AutoGPT-style). You own the plumbing: tool-calling loops, memory, channels. High control, high effort. Ready-to-run harnesses — a packaged agent you install, configure, and deploy as a service. It already has the reasoning loop, the channels, the skills system.