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agents: One Marketplace, Because Names Collide
AI Agents

agents: One Marketplace, Because Names Collide

This repo is six files and does nothing. That’s the post. Two dozen of my projects ship an .agents/ directory — a skill that teaches an agent to drive the …

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 …

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 …

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 — six cloud providers with free tiers, five local engines that run on your own hardware, the rest on …

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 …

servicepack: The Go Framework That Actually Understands How Real Development Works
Golang

servicepack: The Go Framework That Actually Understands How Real Development Works

Look, I’ve built a lot of shit in Go. Worked on microservices that were basically just glorified HTTP handlers talking to each other across Docker networks. Debugged race conditions at …

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