Software Engineer and more Sun, 05 Apr 2026 23:43:14 +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/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/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 ...]]> https://ciprian.51k.eu/ollama-chat-party-turn-your-local-llm-into-a-social-experience-%f0%9f%8e%89%f0%9f%92%80/ Thu, 24 Jul 2025 20:29:00 +0000 https://ciprian.51k.eu/?p=1043Running Ollama locally is great – you’re not paying OpenAI’s monthly subscription tax and your conversations stay on your machine. But it’s a solo experience. You’re chatting with your AI ...]]> https://ciprian.51k.eu/cli-llm-chat-the-command-line-rebels-answer-to-ai-madness/ Sat, 20 Jul 2024 16:31:00 +0000 https://ciprian.51k.eu/?p=903Forget the flashy buttons and over-engineered UIs — real hackers live and die by the command line. Welcome to cli-llm-chat, where the chaos of AI meets the simplicity (and brutality) ...]]> https://ciprian.51k.eu/py-telegram-logger-client-logging-for-the-cyberpunk-era/ Sat, 06 Jul 2024 13:57:59 +0000 https://ciprian.51k.eu/?p=896Alright, imagine you’ve built a killer system for monitoring security vulnerabilities, and now you need real-time alerts piped directly to your Telegram. No more logging into servers, no more dealing ...]]> https://ciprian.51k.eu/supervisor-shell-ui-a-console-alternative-to-the-built-in-web-interface/ Mon, 24 Jul 2023 08:16:00 +0000 https://ciprian.51k.eu/?p=551Hey there! So, you know how sometimes you stumble upon a tool that just makes your life easier? That’s exactly what happened with me and supervisor-shell-ui. This nifty little command-line ...]]> https://ciprian.51k.eu/video-stream-benchmark-python-wrapped-in-docker/ Wed, 06 Mar 2019 21:53:43 +0000 http://live.ciprian.51k.eu/?p=223Having worked on a bunch of applications that read and manipulate streams lately, I needed to do some stress-testing to check out how much one of those streams can take. ...]]> https://ciprian.51k.eu/phantomime-headless-browser/ Mon, 04 Apr 2016 15:40:03 +0000 http://local.51k.eu/?p=128Lately I’ve had lots of front-end testing to do and I’ve messed around with Selenium and Python’s Selenium bindings. After building up some confidence I decided to develop a quick ...]]>