Daniel Etuk writes about building products, AI, systems, 3D, art, and the ideas around them.https://dannetuk.dannetuk.workers.dev/https://dannetuk.dannetuk.workers.dev/writing/self-hosting-hermes-agent-deepseek-telegram/https://dannetuk.dannetuk.workers.dev/writing/self-hosting-hermes-agent-deepseek-telegram/Self-host Hermes on a Linux server, use DeepSeek V4.1 Flash Fast, connect a private Telegram bot, and keep the setup maintainable.Wed, 30 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://dannetuk.dannetuk.workers.dev/writing/produca-directing-an-idea/https://dannetuk.dannetuk.workers.dev/writing/produca-directing-an-idea/The direction behind Produca, and the decisions I want a video project to keep.Sat, 12 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://dannetuk.dannetuk.workers.dev/writing/evaluations-before-agents/https://dannetuk.dannetuk.workers.dev/writing/evaluations-before-agents/A few repeatable tasks tell me more than a demo that worked once.Tue, 18 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://dannetuk.dannetuk.workers.dev/writing/context-is-a-product-surface/https://dannetuk.dannetuk.workers.dev/writing/context-is-a-product-surface/Show me the reference and instructions that shaped the result.Tue, 21 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://dannetuk.dannetuk.workers.dev/writing/tools-not-chat/https://dannetuk.dannetuk.workers.dev/writing/tools-not-chat/Keep the conversation, but give the actual work somewhere to live.Tue, 16 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://dannetuk.dannetuk.workers.dev/writing/memory-with-an-expiry-date/https://dannetuk.dannetuk.workers.dev/writing/memory-with-an-expiry-date/A temporary instruction shouldn't quietly become a permanent preference.Wed, 20 May 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://dannetuk.dannetuk.workers.dev/writing/cost-is-part-of-the-interface/https://dannetuk.dannetuk.workers.dev/writing/cost-is-part-of-the-interface/Changing one line shouldn't quietly regenerate the entire video.Fri, 17 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://dannetuk.dannetuk.workers.dev/writing/model-routing-is-product-design/https://dannetuk.dannetuk.workers.dev/writing/model-routing-is-product-design/Extraction, planning and arithmetic don't need the same route.Thu, 19 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://dannetuk.dannetuk.workers.dev/writing/building-tools-around-the-work/https://dannetuk.dannetuk.workers.dev/writing/building-tools-around-the-work/A habit of building tools for the things I keep repeating.Tue, 03 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://dannetuk.dannetuk.workers.dev/writing/coding-agents-need-a-workbench/https://dannetuk.dannetuk.workers.dev/writing/coding-agents-need-a-workbench/Useful project knowledge should survive a model switch.Wed, 18 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://dannetuk.dannetuk.workers.dev/writing/how-i-read-ai-papers/https://dannetuk.dannetuk.workers.dev/writing/how-i-read-ai-papers/Checking the comparison before getting attached to the claim.Thu, 22 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://dannetuk.dannetuk.workers.dev/writing/multimodal-is-a-workflow-problem/https://dannetuk.dannetuk.workers.dev/writing/multimodal-is-a-workflow-problem/A reference for clothing is not necessarily a reference for lighting.Thu, 18 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://dannetuk.dannetuk.workers.dev/writing/reliability-for-probabilistic-software/https://dannetuk.dannetuk.workers.dev/writing/reliability-for-probabilistic-software/Variable answers don't excuse duplicate actions or lost state.Thu, 20 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://dannetuk.dannetuk.workers.dev/writing/taste-is-not-a-model-setting/https://dannetuk.dannetuk.workers.dev/writing/taste-is-not-a-model-setting/Cinematic is a broad instruction. Specific choices are more useful.Thu, 16 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://dannetuk.dannetuk.workers.dev/writing/local-models-and-private-work/https://dannetuk.dannetuk.workers.dev/writing/local-models-and-private-work/Which jobs belong on the device, and what still leaves it?Thu, 18 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://dannetuk.dannetuk.workers.dev/writing/zig-made-memory-visible/https://dannetuk.dannetuk.workers.dev/writing/zig-made-memory-visible/Questions about ownership and allocation that carry over to higher-level work.Thu, 21 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://dannetuk.dannetuk.workers.dev/writing/designing-for-failure/https://dannetuk.dannetuk.workers.dev/writing/designing-for-failure/A timeout doesn't tell you whether the operation happened.Thu, 19 Jun 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://dannetuk.dannetuk.workers.dev/writing/observability-for-one-person-teams/https://dannetuk.dannetuk.workers.dev/writing/observability-for-one-person-teams/Start with the failed job you need to find, not another dashboard.Thu, 15 May 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://dannetuk.dannetuk.workers.dev/writing/an-agent-inside-blender/https://dannetuk.dannetuk.workers.dev/writing/an-agent-inside-blender/Inspect the chair before making it wider.Thu, 17 Apr 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://dannetuk.dannetuk.workers.dev/writing/ai-harnesses-for-godot/https://dannetuk.dannetuk.workers.dev/writing/ai-harnesses-for-godot/The script can look right while the running game is wrong.Thu, 20 Mar 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://dannetuk.dannetuk.workers.dev/writing/procedural-and-generative/https://dannetuk.dannetuk.workers.dev/writing/procedural-and-generative/Generate a starting point, then keep the controls needed to revise it.Thu, 20 Feb 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://dannetuk.dannetuk.workers.dev/writing/a-3d-scene-is-data/https://dannetuk.dannetuk.workers.dev/writing/a-3d-scene-is-data/A render won't tell you which materials are shared or what depends on an object.Thu, 16 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://dannetuk.dannetuk.workers.dev/writing/building-before-selling/https://dannetuk.dannetuk.workers.dev/writing/building-before-selling/Noticing when another feature is a way to postpone talking to someone.Thu, 19 Dec 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://dannetuk.dannetuk.workers.dev/writing/payments-are-state-machines/https://dannetuk.dannetuk.workers.dev/writing/payments-are-state-machines/What a paid boolean leaves out, and why unknown outcomes need reconciliation.Thu, 24 Oct 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://dannetuk.dannetuk.workers.dev/writing/compliance-can-improve-the-product/https://dannetuk.dannetuk.workers.dev/writing/compliance-can-improve-the-product/Turning access requirements into better support tools and fewer leftover permissions.Thu, 03 Oct 2024 00:00:00 GMT