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decidealot: Stop Making a Chatbot Write an Essay When You Needed a Fucking Yes or No
AI Tooling / Containers / Python

decidealot: Stop Making a Chatbot Write an Essay When You Needed a Fucking Yes or No

TypeSafe dropped Jev and my whole feed lost its shit over it. They call it a System One model: you hand it messy state plus a few typed questions, and …

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codexbox: Four Environment Variables and a mkdir Standing Between You and OpenAI’s CLI
AI Agents / Bash / Containers

codexbox: Four Environment Variables and a mkdir Standing Between You and OpenAI’s 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 …

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aicodebox: One Base Image, Any AI Coding Agent, Four Modes You Didn’t Have To Write
AI Agents / Containers / Python

aicodebox: One Base Image, Any AI Coding Agent, Four Modes You Didn’t 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, …

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pibox: Three Env Vars Is All It Took to Wire pi-coding-agent Into aicodebox
AI Agents / Bash / Containers

pibox: Three Env Vars Is All It Took to Wire pi-coding-agent Into aicodebox

I built aicodebox as an abstraction — one base image, an AgentAdapter contract, plug any coding agent’s CLI into it and get the API/MCP/Telegram/cron surface for free. That’s a nice …

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mailbox: Your Inboxes as an HTTP API and MCP Server That Stores Zero Bytes
AI / Containers / Python

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 …

telethon-plus: Your Telegram Account as an HTTP API and MCP Server
AI / Containers / Python

telethon-plus: Your Telegram Account 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 …

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aigate: Your Own Fucking AI Infrastructure
AI / Containers

aigate: Your Own Fucking AI Infrastructure

A 3060 and no cloud budget. AI models behind one endpoint — five cloud providers with free tiers, five local engines that run on your own hardware, the rest on …

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

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claudebox: Claude Code in Docker, Now With Seven Ways to Break Your Production Server
AI Agents / Bash / Containers / Python

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

Heads up — this post has been superseded. As of v2.0.0, claudebox is a thin child image of aicodebox — the agent-agnostic base that now owns every surface described below. …

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