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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 …

flickies: A Video Toolbox That Happens to Do Lipsync
AI / Containers / Python

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
Containers / Python / Trading

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
AI Agents / Containers / Python

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
AI / Containers / Python

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 …

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 …

wickworks: The Dumb-As-Rocks OHLC Analyzer That Refuses to Tell You What to Buy
Containers / Python / Trading

wickworks: The Dumb-As-Rocks OHLC Analyzer That Refuses to Tell You What to Buy

Stop telling me when to buy. That’s the entire ask. Don’t draw arrows on my chart. Don’t fire “BUY SIGNAL CONFIRMED” webhooks. Don’t generate a fake backtested winrate. Don’t sell …

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