chatz: A Self-Hosted AI Chat Where the Assistant Draws the Fucking Dashboard
Every self-hosted chat UI hands you the same thing: a wall of markdown. You ask the model for last quarter’s numbers, it writes you a table in monospace, and if …
pr0xteus: Disposable VPN Exits for Apps You Wouldn’t Trust With Your Password
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 …
essessey: Stream a Turn Anywhere Without Rewriting It
The 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 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 Rankings
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 …
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 …
flickies: A Video Toolbox That Happens to Do Lipsync
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 …
ibkr-httpapi: Six Asset Classes, No Windows VM, All Real Fucking Money
I already burned a month of my life building mt5-httpapi — a full Windows VM booted under QEMU/KVM inside Docker, just so I could talk to a broker that only …
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, …
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 …