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Category: Tips

  • Hermes and xCode 27

    I couldn’t find this information anywhere, so here it is…

    To use your local Hermes install as an agent within Xcode 27 is simple.

    Open Xcode “Settings” from the Xcode menu, and select “Intelligence” from the left hand pane.

    On the right, click “Add an agent…”

    Name your agent, i.e. “Hermes”

    Provide the path to your agent, which on my machine is /Users/myusername/.local/bin/hermes-acp

    And that’s pretty much it. It works!

    If you’re not sure what the path to your agent is, you can find it by opening the terminal and typing in which hermes. This will give you the path to your main Hermes binary, and you can add -acp to the end of it to provide the version that Xcode is looking for.

  • How to add TextEdit-MCP to LM Studio

    Sometimes you want to create a beautiful summary of your conversation, but not the whole thing. Using the TextEdit-MCP tool is a good option, but its install script is only designed to set it up for Claude’s desktop app.

    If you install it with using the install.sh script as instructed, you can use it from LM Studio by inserting the following code into the mcp.json file:

    }

    {
  "mcpServers": {
    "textedit": {
      "command": "/Users/<your-username-here>/Library/Application Support/Claude/MCP/textedit-mcp"
    }
  }
}

    If you already have one or more MCP servers set up there, add a comma after the closing curly brace of the last server, and just insert:

        "textedit": {
      "command": "/Users/<your-username-here>/Library/Application Support/Claude/MCP/textedit-mcp"
    }

    Don’t forget to replace <your-username-here> with your username / home folder name!

  • Finding out who’s atending your meeting in Outlook for Mac

    A recent convert from Windows ran into a big issue when she tried to figure out who had actually responded to her meeting invitations. Double clicking the event in the calendar view did not offer her the information that she was used to seeing, and she’d had no success finding help online.

    There are two ways (that I know of) to see who’s accepted and declined your invite:

    1. Select the meeting in calendar view by clicking on it once. Then hover your cursor over the meeting. After a second or two, a bubble will pop open showing you the info you’re after!

    2. If you already have the meeting open, you can click on the “Scheduling” icon in the top bar. This will open a view of the free / busy status of the calendars of the people who’ve been invited to the meeting for around the scheduled time, and on the left hand side, by their names, you will see small indicators of whether of not they’ve accepted your invitation – a green check-mark for yes, a red cross for no, and a grey dot for no response…