Siddhartha Ahuja’s Blender MCP is the open-source project that puts Claude at the Blender keyboard. A Model Context Protocol server talks to a Blender add-on over a TCP socket on port 9876. From there, Claude can build shapes, paint materials, read the scene, pull free assets from Poly Haven , make meshes through Hyper3D Rodin , import Sketchfab models, and run any Python inside Blender. The repo has 19,694 stars, an MIT license, and sits at version 1.5.5. Similar add-ons exist for Unreal, Godot, Maya, and Figma. This one has the biggest crowd and the deepest tool list by far.
Claude Code in CI/CD: Automate PR Reviews and Issue Fixes with GitHub Actions
Anthropic ships claude-code-action
, an official GitHub Action that runs the full Claude Code
runtime inside your CI/CD pipeline. It reviews pull requests, builds features from issues when someone types @claude, writes tests, updates docs, and drafts release notes. It also respects your repo’s CLAUDE.md coding rules. The runtime runs on a GitHub Actions runner, with tool use, file reads, and multi-step reasoning.
It ships with four auth backends: Anthropic API, AWS Bedrock, Google Vertex AI, and Microsoft Foundry. It also has a sister claude-code-security-review action for vuln scans, native GitLab CI/CD support, and real deployments. Deriv
runs it across 700+ repos, handling 100+ PRs per week. So this has moved past the demo stage. Teams now wire it into merge gates next to linters and test suites.
OpenClaw Texted My Ex and Why iMessage Access Is a Trap
The viral r/ChatGPT “my OpenClaw texted my ex” post reads like a joke, but the comments treat it as a warning sign. Keep OpenClaw’s iMessage, SMS, and contacts skills off your personal Mac. Wait until LTS ships and the founder’s “rough week” supply-chain fixes land. Scope write-access skills to a disposable VPS instead.
Key Takeaways
- The viral “texted my ex” post is a leading indicator, not just a meme.
- iMessage, SMS, and contacts are write-heavy skills that touch your real social graph.
- Forgetful agents plus unsupervised cron jobs turn wrong-recipient sends into expected behavior.
- Run write-heavy OpenClaw skills on a disposable VPS, not your personal Mac.
- Wait for the LTS release before treating OpenClaw as personal-machine infrastructure.
The viral OpenClaw meme is not just a meme
A screenshot of OpenClaw happily reporting that it had texted the OP’s ex hit 4.8K upvotes and 176 comments on r/ChatGPT in about three weeks. The top replies are jokes (“Of all the things that didn’t happen, this happened the didn’test”). The serious comments point at a real safety category that is forming in real time.
DIY Smart Doorbell for $25: Skip Ring's $5/month subscription
Yes, you can build a full smart video doorbell for under $25. The parts list: an ESP32-CAM board, a PIR motion sensor, a push button, and ESPHome firmware. It streams MJPEG video to Home Assistant , pushes a snapshot to your phone on button press, and saves motion clips locally. No cloud. No video leaves your network. The build takes about two hours, and every future update flashes over Wi-Fi.
Track Package Deliveries in Home Assistant with 17TRACK and Automations
Connect a free 17track.net account to Home Assistant and you can pull tracking data from 3,200+ carriers into one place. From there, automations ping your phone, fire the porch camera, and toggle outdoor lights as boxes move through the system. Below is a working blueprint for the whole flow, from setup to multi-user alert tuning.
Setting Up the 17TRACK Integration
17track.net is a tracking aggregator. It pulls status updates from USPS, UPS, FedEx, DHL, Royal Mail, China Post, YunExpress, and roughly 3,200 other carriers across 220 countries. Once you add tracking numbers to your 17track account (by hand, through the mobile app, or via email forwarding), the Home Assistant integration mirrors them as sensor entities. You can then display them and build automations on top.
OpenClaw vs Hermes and Why Memory Kills Agent Loyalty
Hermes Agent , built by Nous Research, has taken about 30% of OpenClaw’s user base by fixing one failure: memory. The Kilo.ai synthesis of 1,300+ r/openclaw comments confirms the figure. OpenClaw still wins on multi-agent breadth and 100+ skills. The right answer depends on which failure mode hurts you more.
Key Takeaways
- About 30% of r/openclaw users have switched to Hermes Agent, mainly for memory reliability.
- Memory failures, not features, are the top reason people leave OpenClaw.
- Hermes ships with memory that works by default; OpenClaw needs heavy prompt-engineering to behave.
- OpenClaw still wins for multi-bot setups across Telegram, Slack, and Discord.
- A growing minority skip both and use OpenAI Codex business-tier instead.
Why r/openclaw Is Migrating to Hermes
The most-cited migration thread on the subreddit is the 167-comment OpenClaw vs Hermes thread . The top-voted answer to “is Hermes worth a look” reads as a clean defection notice. The poster ran OpenClaw for weeks on the same workload, then switched in an afternoon:
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