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talkies: Tell OpenAI’s Speech API to Go Fuck Itself
AI / Containers / Python

talkies: Tell OpenAI’s 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 …

predictalot: Five Zero-Shot Forecasters and Zero Trading Advice
AI / Containers / Python / Trading

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 …

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

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 …

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 …

aichteeteapee: A Go HTTP Library Named By Someone Who Thinks Spelling Things Out Is Funny
Golang

aichteeteapee: A Go HTTP Library Named By Someone Who Thinks Spelling Things Out Is Funny

Say it out loud: aichteeteapee. Go on. Sound it out. Aitch-tee-tee-pee. Yeah. That’s HTTP. I named my Go HTTP library by spelling “HTTP” phonetically and published it with a straight …

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Heads up — this post has been superseded.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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