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Category: Python

AI / Containers / Python

flickies: A Video Toolbox That Happens to Do Lipsync

I was neck-deep in an avatar pipeline and needed two unglamorous things at once: a lipsync pass, and a fistful of ffmpeg operations around it — trim the source, mux …

Containers / Python / Trading

ibkr-httpapi: Six Asset Classes, No Windows VM, All Real Fucking Money

I already burned a month of my life building mt5-httpapi — a full Windows VM booted under QEMU/KVM inside Docker, just so I could talk to a broker that only …

AI / Containers / Python

aicodebox: One Base Image, Any AI Coding Agent, Four Modes You Didn’t Have To Write

I built claudebox because letting Claude Code run loose on my host was giving me chest pains. It worked. It grew an HTTP API, an OpenAI-compatible endpoint, an MCP server, …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Containers / Python / Trading

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 …

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 …

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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