16 Jun 2026 · Marek Šuppa
I ran into this while building a chat UI against Hermes Agent , Nous Research’s self-hosted agent gateway. Replies over its HTTP API came back as plain text with bare URLs – no **bold** , no ## headings, no [label](url) – even though my UI renders Markdown. The same agent formats answers with Markdown when used from Slack. The reason why is that Hermes injects a per-platform hint into the system prompt depending on which platform adapter you connect through. Here is a short snippet from ag…
16 Jun 2026 · Marek Šuppa
Edit: This has generated a nice discussion on Hacker News – check it out too! I needed to check that one container could reach another over an internal Docker network: a plain GET /health against a service on a shared network. The obvious move is curl http://service:8642/health . But this app image was stripped right down, with no curl or wget and nothing else around that I could use to open a socket.
16 Jun 2026 · Marek Šuppa
VER 2026 is Slovakia’s periodic evaluation of research, development, artistic, and other creative activity at public universities and public research institutions. I put together this small open-source viewer because I was frustrated by how hard the original website made it to interpret and share the public results. The viewer is a friendlier interface over the original public sources: it lets you filter by evaluation area, institution, institution type, quality profile, and research funding f…
14 Jun 2026 · Marek Šuppa
A civil-engineering metaphor seems to have become part of Claude’s LLM speak.