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Category: Containers

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 …

AI / Containers

aigate: Your Own Fucking AI Infrastructure

A 3060 and no cloud budget. 99 AI models running locally. Not in theory. Right now. aigate is 28 Docker containers behind a single nginx port. Text generation, image generation, …

Containers / Python / Radio

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 …

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 / Bash / Containers / Python

claudebox: Claude Code in Docker, Now With Six Ways to Break Your Production Server

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. It’s become …

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