Software Engineer and more Sun, 26 Jul 2026 03:35:30 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://ciprian.51k.eu/upld/2019/02/cropped-terminal-icon-32x32.png 32 32 https://ciprian.51k.eu/flickies-a-video-toolbox-that-happens-to-do-lipsync/ Tue, 23 Jun 2026 09:00:00 +0000 https://ciprian.51k.eu/flickies-four-engines-to-make-anyone-say-whatever-the-fuck-i-want/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 ...]]> https://ciprian.51k.eu/ibkr-httpapi-six-asset-classes-no-windows-vm-all-real-fucking-money/ Mon, 22 Jun 2026 09:00:00 +0000 https://ciprian.51k.eu/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 ...]]> https://ciprian.51k.eu/aicodebox-one-base-image-any-ai-coding-agent-four-modes-you-didnt-have-to-write/ Fri, 19 Jun 2026 04:20:00 +0000 https://ciprian.51k.eu/aicodebox-one-base-image-any-ai-coding-agent-four-modes-you-didnt-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, ...]]> https://ciprian.51k.eu/audiolla-thirty-five-audio-engines-behind-one-docker-port/ Tue, 02 Jun 2026 09:00:00 +0000 https://ciprian.51k.eu/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 ...]]> https://ciprian.51k.eu/talkies-tell-openais-speech-api-to-go-fuck-itself/ Sat, 30 May 2026 09:00:00 +0000 https://ciprian.51k.eu/talkies-tell-openais-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 ...]]> https://ciprian.51k.eu/predictalot-five-zero-shot-forecasters-and-zero-trading-advice/ Sat, 23 May 2026 09:00:00 +0000 https://ciprian.51k.eu/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 ...]]> https://ciprian.51k.eu/mailbox-your-inboxes-as-an-http-api-and-mcp-server-that-stores-zero-bytes/ Wed, 20 May 2026 09:00:00 +0000 https://ciprian.51k.eu/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 ...]]> 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/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/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 ...]]>