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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 …
Some HTTP requests take forever. LLM completions, image generation, video transcoding, big report builds, slow webhook processors — they all sit there chewing on something while your reverse proxy in …
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 …
I live under a flight path. Military cargo planes, government jets, police helicopters, the occasional emergency squawk — all of it flying over my head and I had no idea …
MetaTrader 5 only runs on Windows. The official Python library only works on Windows. The MQL5 scripting language is a C++ knockoff from 2005 that makes you want to gouge …
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 …
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 — …
Every time I build a tool that runs inside a Docker container, I hit the same problem: how do I let people interact with it remotely? The obvious answer is …
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 …
I use Claude Code for everything. Writing code, debugging shit, deploying infrastructure, managing repos, writing articles for this very blog, and even automating browser sessions on the fly. It’s become …