Ciprian Mandache Mostly writing code that does stuff... Mon, 17 Aug 2026 22:25:41 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://ciprian.51k.eu/upld/2019/02/cropped-terminal-icon-32x32.pngCiprian Mandache 32 32 pr0xteus: Disposable VPN Exits for Apps You Wouldn’t Trust With Your Passwordhttps://ciprian.51k.eu/pr0xteus-disposable-vpn-exits/ Fri, 14 Aug 2026 15:15:12 +0000 https://ciprian.51k.eu/pr0xteus-disposable-vpn-exits/You’ve got some app that needs to leave the building through a VPN. A scraper, a browser bot, some agent poking at sites that would rather it came from somewhere ...]]> ctxscope: Stop Threading request_id Through Every Function Signaturehttps://ciprian.51k.eu/ctxscope-context-scoped-log-attributes-go/ Sat, 08 Aug 2026 20:00:42 +0000 https://ciprian.51k.eu/ctxscope-context-scoped-log-attributes-go/Here’s the code everybody writes. A request comes in, you generate an id, and something a few calls down needs to log it: func handleOrder(ctx context.Context, requestID string, o Order) ...]]> slogging: Delete Twenty Lines of slog Boilerplate With One Blank Importhttps://ciprian.51k.eu/slogging-configure-search-ship-slog/ Sat, 08 Aug 2026 09:20:58 +0000 https://ciprian.51k.eu/?p=1385Go 1.21 shipped log/slog and it’s good. What it doesn’t ship is any way to configure it, so every service starts with a version of this: var level slog.Level switch ...]]> essessey: Stream a Turn Anywhere Without Rewriting Ithttps://ciprian.51k.eu/essessey-stream-a-turn-anywhere-without-rewriting-it/ Wed, 05 Aug 2026 15:52:01 +0000 https://ciprian.51k.eu/?p=1364The first version streamed over SSE. Then something needed the same turn over NATS, and I found out I’d built the framing into the wrong layer. event: / data: / ...]]> elelem: Say It Out Loud, You’ll Get Ithttps://ciprian.51k.eu/elelem-say-it-out-loud-youll-get-it/ Tue, 04 Aug 2026 23:53:53 +0000 https://ciprian.51k.eu/elelem-say-it-out-loud-youll-get-it/The moment that decides what kind of library you’re writing is the one where a human has to approve a tool call. Everything is lovely right up until then. The ...]]> rankrat: Ram One Rat Up Every SEO Console Cockblocking Your Rankingshttps://ciprian.51k.eu/rankrat-one-rat-for-every-seo-console/ Mon, 03 Aug 2026 12:29:06 +0000 https://ciprian.51k.eu/rankrat-its-a-rat-not-a-burglar/A page falls out of Google’s index. Now you get to find out why. Open Search Console to confirm it’s actually gone. GA4, to see if the traffic died or ...]]> agents: One Marketplace, Because Names Collidehttps://ciprian.51k.eu/agents-one-marketplace-because-names-collide/ Tue, 28 Jul 2026 01:49:19 +0000 https://ciprian.51k.eu/agents-one-marketplace-because-names-collide/This repo is six files and does nothing. That’s the post. Two dozen of my projects ship an .agents/ directory — a skill that teaches an agent to drive the ...]]> codexbox: Four Environment Variables and a mkdir Standing Between You and OpenAI’s CLIhttps://ciprian.51k.eu/codexbox-four-environment-variables-and-a-mkdir-standing-between-you-and-openais-cli/ Thu, 23 Jul 2026 09:00:00 +0000 https://ciprian.51k.eu/codexbox-four-environment-variables-and-a-mkdir-standing-between-you-and-openais-cli/I already wrote the “why I ripped the plumbing out of my own repos and built a base image” rant in the aicodebox post, so I’m not doing it again ...]]> Grai fără alaihttps://ciprian.51k.eu/grai-fara-alai/ Tue, 21 Jul 2026 21:36:09 +0000 https://ciprian.51k.eu/grai-fara-alai/Am privit de pe sus și am tăcut, căci tot ce-am fost s-a dus, s-a dus, s-a dus, pe drumuri strâmbe, cioplite-n os de sfânt, mergeam spre nicăieri cântând un ...]]> flickies: A Video Toolbox That Happens to Do Lipsynchttps://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 ...]]>