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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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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docker-qwenspeak: Text-to-Speech Over SSH Because APIs Are Overrated
AI / Containers / Python

docker-qwenspeak: Text-to-Speech Over SSH Because APIs Are Overrated

Every cloud TTS service is the same story. Send text, get audio, pay per character, pray the API doesn’t change. Your audio goes to someone else’s servers. Your costs scale …

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