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Guides & applications

Notes from building self-hosted AI automation, plus public information and policies for applications published by diyourdata.

This page collects the public guides & applications from diyyourdata.

Self-hosted AI automation notes, plus application information and policies for the Expense Tracker app — everything you need to understand what we build and how it uses your data.

Applications

Expense Tracker — app information and features App
What the application does, the features it offers, and how the optional Google Drive connection is used.
Expense Tracker — Privacy Policy
What data is collected, how it is used, stored and shared, Google Limited Use disclosure, retention and your rights.
Expense Tracker — Terms of Service
Eligibility, accounts, plans and billing, acceptable use, data ownership, availability, liability and termination.

Posts

Hermes Mnemosyne Memory — setup
Wiring the Mnemosyne memory plugin into a Hermes agent.
Hermes Mnemosyne Memory — token impact
Measuring what the memory plugin costs per turn.
Bitwarden Secrets Manager for Hermes
Central key rotation: one machine-account token instead of N API keys in .env.
Signal Messenger Gateway
Running signal-cli as a Hermes messaging adapter.
TypeSafe Jev — cost comparison
Running cost of the Jev setup versus a chat workflow.
TypeSafe (Jev) — setup
Installing and configuring TypeSafe.
Hermes Agent — full WSL setup guide
End-to-end install of Hermes Agent on Windows Subsystem for Linux.
Telegram Webhook Setup Prompt for Hermes on Oracle VM
Reusable prompt to configure Telegram webhook receiving behind nginx TLS.
Fixing "No Route to Host" on Oracle Cloud
A real-world debugging story from an Oracle VM.
How to set up a free Oracle Cloud VM for web development
Step-by-step provisioning of an always-free instance.
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