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A spider web strung with dew drops — a self-hosted crawler for the open web

Developer Tools 16 min

DEVELOPER TOOLS · Updated 21 Jul 2026 —

Self-Host Firecrawl with Docker: Scrape the Web into LLM-Ready Markdown (2026)

We cloned Firecrawl v2.11.0, built its seven-service Docker stack, and scraped our own homepage into clean markdown — no...

AI Tools Desk

21 Jul

Industrial automation line glowing orange — n8n automates the plumbing between your systems

Developer Tools 13 min

DEVELOPER TOOLS · Updated 21 Jul 2026 —

Self-Host n8n with Docker: From Zero to Your First Webhook (2026)

One container, one volume, one real webhook: we self-hosted n8n 2.30.8 with Docker on macOS and captured every command,...

AI Tools Desk

21 Jul

A workspace mid-install — setting up Hermes Agent takes one command

Developer Tools 8 min

DEVELOPER TOOLS · Updated 15 Jul 2026 —

How to Set Up Hermes Agent on a Mac (2026)

Executed walkthrough of installing Hermes Agent v0.18.2 on macOS: the official script, the PATH gotcha, doctor checks, a...

AI Tools Desk

15 Jul

Code on a dark screen — OpenCode is a coding agent that lives in your terminal

Developer Tools 8 min

DEVELOPER TOOLS · Updated 15 Jul 2026 —

How to Set Up OpenCode on a Mac (2026)

Executed walkthrough of OpenCode v1.18.1 on macOS: Homebrew install, provider auth, free local Ollama option, first run...

AI Tools Desk

15 Jul