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audiolla: Thirty-Five Audio Engines Behind One Docker Port
AI / Containers / Python

audiolla: Thirty-Five Audio Engines Behind One Docker Port

A while back I needed a box that could rip vocals out of a track, tell me the BPM and key, transcribe a melody to MIDI, and clean up a …

talkies: Tell OpenAI’s Speech API to Go Fuck Itself
AI / Containers / Python

talkies: Tell OpenAI’s Speech API to Go Fuck Itself

I got the OpenAI Whisper API bill for a month of hooking my own tooling up to it and just sat there staring at the number like it had personally …

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predictalot: Five Zero-Shot Forecasters and Zero Trading Advice
AI / Containers / Python / Trading

predictalot: Five Zero-Shot Forecasters and Zero Trading Advice

I was hand-rolling ARIMA fits at 2am, again, for the fourth different side project, because every time I need “give me a forecast of this series” I end up re-solving …

pibox: Three Env Vars Is All It Took to Wire pi-coding-agent Into aicodebox
AI Agents / Bash / Containers

pibox: Three Env Vars Is All It Took to Wire pi-coding-agent Into aicodebox

I built aicodebox as an abstraction: one base image, an AgentAdapter contract, plug any coding agent’s CLI into it and get the API/MCP/Telegram/cron surface for free. That’s a nice theory. …

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mailbox: Your Inboxes as an HTTP API and MCP Server That Stores Zero Bytes
AI / Containers / Python

mailbox: Your Inboxes as an HTTP API and MCP Server That Stores Zero Bytes

I have five email accounts. A personal Gmail I’ve had since I was a teenager, a work address, a “burner” I use for signups I don’t trust, a domain address …

telethon-plus: Your Telegram Account as an HTTP API and MCP Server
AI / Containers / Python

telethon-plus: Your Telegram Account as an HTTP API and MCP Server

Telegram has two APIs. The Bot API: neutered, restricted, limited to whatever Telegram decided bots are allowed to do. And MTProto: the actual protocol your phone uses, with full account …

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hybrids3: S3-Compatible Object Storage That Doesn’t Require a PhD
AI / Containers / Python

hybrids3: S3-Compatible Object Storage That Doesn’t Require a PhD

Put nginx in front of MinIO at a path prefix and try to use presigned URLs. Go ahead, I’ll wait. The problem is AWS Signature V4. The signature covers the …

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aigate: Your Own Fucking AI Infrastructure
AI / Containers

aigate: Your Own Fucking AI Infrastructure

A 3060 and no cloud budget. AI models behind one endpoint: five cloud providers with free tiers, five local engines that run on your own hardware, the rest on subscription …

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The ANUSTIMES Method for AI Perfectancy
AI Opinion

The ANUSTIMES Method for AI Perfectancy

I run multi-agent Claude swarms to build software. Orchestrator spawns researchers, researchers spawn developers, developers spawn reviewers, the whole fucking thing operates in parallel and produces complete working systems at …

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AI Killed the Learning Curve and Nobody Gives a Shit
AI Opinion

AI Killed the Learning Curve and Nobody Gives a Shit

I started programming at 12, writing RATs and trojans in Delphi because that’s what Romanian kids did in 2002. By 21 I was a literature graduate building CRMs from scratch …

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