Software Engineer and more Thu, 14 May 2026 05:29:46 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://ciprian.51k.eu/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/cropped-terminal-icon-32x32.png 32 32 https://ciprian.51k.eu/wickworks-the-dumb-as-rocks-ohlc-analyzer-that-refuses-to-tell-you-what-to-buy/ Thu, 14 May 2026 05:00:44 +0000 https://ciprian.51k.eu/wickworks-the-dumb-as-rocks-ohlc-analyzer-that-refuses-to-tell-you-what-to-buy/Stop telling me when to buy. That’s the entire ask. Don’t draw arrows on my chart. Don’t fire “BUY SIGNAL CONFIRMED” webhooks. Don’t generate a fake backtested winrate. Don’t sell ...]]> https://ciprian.51k.eu/slog-configurator-stdlib-logging-zero-config/ Wed, 29 Apr 2026 23:25:03 +0000 https://ciprian.51k.eu/slog-configurator-stdlib-logging-zero-config/A while back I wrote about logrus-configurator — a small package that auto-configures logrus from environment variables so you stop copy-pasting the same setup boilerplate into every Go project. It ...]]> https://ciprian.51k.eu/docker-proxq-async-http-queue-for-slow-backends/ Wed, 29 Apr 2026 23:23:53 +0000 https://ciprian.51k.eu/docker-proxq-async-http-queue-for-slow-backends/Some HTTP requests take forever. LLM completions, image generation, video transcoding, big report builds, slow webhook processors — they all sit there chewing on something while your reverse proxy in ...]]> https://ciprian.51k.eu/docker-telethon-plus-your-telegram-as-an-http-api-and-mcp-server/ Wed, 29 Apr 2026 22:13:19 +0000 https://ciprian.51k.eu/docker-telethon-plus-your-telegram-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 ...]]> https://ciprian.51k.eu/aichteeteapee-a-go-http-library-named-by-someone-who-thinks-spelling-things-out-is-funny/ Sat, 18 Apr 2026 04:24:37 +0000 https://ciprian.51k.eu/?p=1161Say it out loud: aichteeteapee. Go on. Sound it out. Aitch-tee-tee-pee. Yeah. That’s HTTP. I named my Go HTTP library by spelling “HTTP” phonetically and published it with a straight ...]]> https://ciprian.51k.eu/docker-hybrids3-s3-compatible-object-storage-that-doesnt-require-a-phd/ Sat, 18 Apr 2026 01:48:54 +0000 https://ciprian.51k.eu/?p=1151Put 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 ...]]> https://ciprian.51k.eu/docker-planesnitch-snitching-on-every-aircraft-that-dares-fly-near-you/ Sun, 08 Mar 2026 04:00:57 +0000 https://ciprian.51k.eu/docker-planesnitch-snitching-on-every-aircraft-that-dares-fly-near-you/I live under a flight path. Military cargo planes, government jets, police helicopters, the occasional emergency squawk — all of it flying over my head and I had no idea ...]]> https://ciprian.51k.eu/mt5-httpapi-metatrader-5-running-in-docker-with-a-rest-api-because-mql5-can-go-fuck-itself/ Sun, 15 Feb 2026 10:02:05 +0000 https://ciprian.51k.eu/mt5-httpapi-metatrader-5-running-in-docker-with-a-rest-api-because-mql5-can-go-fuck-itself/MetaTrader 5 only runs on Windows. The official Python library only works on Windows. The MQL5 scripting language is a C++ knockoff from 2005 that makes you want to gouge ...]]> https://ciprian.51k.eu/oapixconstgen-make-your-openapi-spec-the-source-of-truth-for-go-constants/ Wed, 28 Jan 2026 05:22:03 +0000 https://ciprian.51k.eu/oapixconstgen-make-your-openapi-spec-the-source-of-truth-for-go-constants/x-constants: int: defaultPageSize: &defaultPageSize 20 maxPageSize: &maxPageSize 100 uint: minPasswordLength: &minPasswordLength 8 float64: requestTimeout: &requestTimeout 30.5 string: defaultLocale: &defaultLocale "en-US" bool: enableCache: &enableCache true // Code generated by oapixconstgen. DO ...]]> https://ciprian.51k.eu/docker-stealthy-auto-browse-the-browser-that-doesnt-know-its-being-automated/ Thu, 08 Jan 2026 03:14:27 +0000 https://ciprian.51k.eu/docker-stealthy-auto-browse-the-browser-that-doesnt-know-its-being-automated/I’ve been automating browsers for years. Selenium, Puppeteer, Playwright — used them all, watched them all get caught. The arms race between bot detection and browser automation has been going ...]]>