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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 …

proxq: Async HTTP for Backends That Won’t Stop Timing Out
Containers / Golang

proxq: Async HTTP for Backends That Won’t Stop Timing Out

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 …

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 …

docker-planesnitch: Snitching on Every Aircraft That Dares Fly Near You
Containers / Python / Radio

docker-planesnitch: Snitching on Every Aircraft That Dares Fly Near You

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 …

mt5-httpapi: MetaTrader 5 Running in Docker With a REST API Because MQL5 Can Go Fuck Itself
Containers / Python / Trading

mt5-httpapi: MetaTrader 5 Running in Docker With a REST API Because MQL5 Can Go Fuck Itself

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 …

docker-qwenspeak: Text-to-Speech Over SSH Because APIs Are Overrated
AI / Containers / Python

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 …

docker-mediaproc: FFmpeg, Sox, and ImageMagick Over SSH
Containers

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 — …

docker-lockbox: SSH Into a Container, Get Shit Done, Touch Nothing Else
Containers

docker-lockbox: SSH Into a Container, Get Shit Done, Touch Nothing Else

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 …

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