Software Engineer and more Tue, 28 Jul 2026 19:21:36 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://ciprian.51k.eu/upld/2019/02/cropped-terminal-icon-32x32.png 32 32 https://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 ...]]> 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/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/pibox-two-env-vars-is-all-it-took-to-wire-pi-coding-agent-into-aicodebox/ Thu, 21 May 2026 09:00:00 +0000 https://ciprian.51k.eu/pibox-two-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 ...]]> 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/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/the-anustimes-method-for-ai-perfectancy/ Wed, 01 Apr 2026 20:37:24 +0000 https://ciprian.51k.eu/?p=1134I run multi-agent Claude swarms to build software. Orchestrator spawns researchers, researchers spawn developers, developers spawn reviewers, the whole fucking thing operates in parallel and produces complete working systems at ...]]> https://ciprian.51k.eu/ai-killed-the-learning-curve-and-nobody-gives-a-shit/ Tue, 31 Mar 2026 01:41:02 +0000 https://ciprian.51k.eu/ai-killed-the-learning-curve-and-nobody-gives-a-shit/I started programming at 12, writing RATs and trojans in Delphi because that’s what Romanian kids did in 2002. By 21 I was a literature graduate building CRMs from scratch ...]]>