Software Engineer and more Tue, 28 Jul 2026 19:21:34 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://ciprian.51k.eu/upld/2019/02/cropped-terminal-icon-32x32.png 32 32 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/aigate-your-own-ai-infrastructure/ Sat, 18 Apr 2026 01:41:24 +0000 https://ciprian.51k.eu/?p=1145A 3060 and no cloud budget. AI models behind one endpoint — six cloud providers with free tiers, five local engines that run on your own hardware, the rest on ...]]> https://ciprian.51k.eu/docker-qwenspeak-text-to-speech-over-ssh-because-apis-are-overrated/ Thu, 12 Feb 2026 22:18:05 +0000 https://ciprian.51k.eu/docker-qwenspeak-text-to-speech-over-ssh-because-apis-are-overrated/Every cloud TTS service is the same story. Send text, get audio, pay per character, pray the API doesn’t change. Your audio goes to someone else’s servers. Your costs scale ...]]> https://ciprian.51k.eu/docker-mediaproc-ffmpeg-sox-and-imagemagick-over-ssh/ Thu, 05 Feb 2026 08:41:22 +0000 https://ciprian.51k.eu/docker-mediaproc-ffmpeg-sox-and-imagemagick-over-ssh/I keep ending up in the same situation. I’ve got a server somewhere with files that need media processing — videos to transcode, audio to convert, images to resize — ...]]>