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Category: Containers

Containers / Python / Trading

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 …

AI / Containers

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 …

Containers

docker-mediaproc: FFmpeg, Sox, and ImageMagick Over SSH

I keep ending up in the same situation. I’ve got a server somewhere with files that need media processing — videos to transcode, audio to convert, images to resize — …

Containers

docker-lockbox: SSH Into a Container, Get Shit Done, Touch Nothing Else

Every time I build a tool that runs inside a Docker container, I hit the same problem: how do I let people interact with it remotely? The obvious answer is …

Containers / Python

docker-stealthy-auto-browse: The Browser That Doesn’t Know It’s 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 …

Bash / Containers / Radio

OFFGRID TOOLS – Building Your Own Fucking Internet: An Offgrid Survival Stack

So you want to survive the apocalypse? Or maybe you’re just tired of your ISP fucking you over every month. Or hell, maybe you just think it would be cool …

AI / Containers

docker-claude-code: Your AI Dev Agent, Containerized and Unhinged

I use Claude Code for everything. Writing code, debugging shit, deploying infrastructure, managing repos, writing articles for this very blog, and even automating browser sessions on the fly — browsing …

Containers

safe-stremio: Streaming for the Cyberpunk Era

Alright, you like your streaming the same way you like your internet: secure, anonymous, and fully under your control. Meet Safe-Stremio, your badass DIY streaming server powered by Docker, Nginx, …

Containers

safe-transmission: Torrenting Like It’s 2077

So, you’ve got torrents to download, and you don’t want anyone peeping on your traffic or throttling your speeds, right? Welcome to Safe-Transmission, my cyberpunk mashup of OpenVPN, Transmission, and …

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