Mostly writing code that does stuff... Tue, 27 Oct 2026 22:10:10 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://ciprian.51k.eu/upld/2019/02/cropped-terminal-icon-32x32.png 32 32 https://ciprian.51k.eu/docker-mql-compiler-reading-compile-one/ Sat, 10 Oct 2026 05:56:44 +0000 https://ciprian.51k.eu/docker-mql-compiler-compile-mql4-and-mql5-on-linux-without-windows/These are the lines the whole project exists to run. Everything else in docker-mql-compiler is setup for them, or cleanup after them: # MetaEditor's exit code is backwards (1 usually ...]]> https://ciprian.51k.eu/dikciz-launcher-versus-a-stock-launcher-with-tasker-bolted-on/ Wed, 07 Oct 2026 19:06:22 +0000 https://ciprian.51k.eu/dikciz-launcher-an-android-launcher-you-can-script-grep-and-hand-to-a-fucking-ai-agent/The normal way to get a programmable Android home screen is to keep whatever launcher came with the phone and bolt an automation app like Tasker onto the side of ...]]> https://ciprian.51k.eu/android-lab-a-zoo-enclosure-for-the-android-sdk/ Wed, 07 Oct 2026 19:04:09 +0000 https://ciprian.51k.eu/android-lab-lock-the-android-sdk-in-docker-and-poke-the-phone-from-a-browser/The Android SDK is a wild animal. Let it loose in your house and it marks territory everywhere: an SDK, a pile of build tools, an emulator, a system image, ...]]> https://ciprian.51k.eu/decidealot-stop-making-a-chatbot-write-an-essay-when-you-needed-a-yes-or-no/ Wed, 23 Sep 2026 23:12:51 +0000 https://ciprian.51k.eu/decidealot-stop-making-a-chatbot-write-an-essay-when-you-needed-a-yes-or-no/TypeSafe dropped Jev and my whole feed lost its shit over it. They call it a System One model: you hand it messy state plus a few typed questions, and ...]]> https://ciprian.51k.eu/chatz-generative-ui-ai-chat/ Sun, 16 Aug 2026 07:22:33 +0000 https://ciprian.51k.eu/chatz-generative-ui-ai-chat/Every self-hosted chat UI hands you the same thing: a wall of markdown. You ask the model for last quarter’s numbers, it writes you a table in monospace, and if ...]]> https://ciprian.51k.eu/pr0xteus-disposable-vpn-exits/ Fri, 14 Aug 2026 15:15:12 +0000 https://ciprian.51k.eu/pr0xteus-disposable-vpn-exits/You’ve got some app that needs to leave the building through a VPN. A scraper, a browser bot, some agent poking at sites that would rather it came from somewhere ...]]> https://ciprian.51k.eu/rankrat-one-rat-for-every-seo-console/ Mon, 03 Aug 2026 12:29:06 +0000 https://ciprian.51k.eu/rankrat-its-a-rat-not-a-burglar/A page falls out of Google’s index. Now you get to find out why. Open Search Console to confirm it’s actually gone. GA4, to see if the traffic died or ...]]> https://ciprian.51k.eu/codexbox-four-environment-variables-and-a-mkdir-standing-between-you-and-openais-cli/ Thu, 23 Jul 2026 09:00:00 +0000 https://ciprian.51k.eu/codexbox-four-environment-variables-and-a-mkdir-standing-between-you-and-openais-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 ...]]> https://ciprian.51k.eu/flickies-a-video-toolbox-that-happens-to-do-lipsync/ Tue, 23 Jun 2026 09:00:00 +0000 https://ciprian.51k.eu/flickies-four-engines-to-make-anyone-say-whatever-the-fuck-i-want/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 the ...]]> https://ciprian.51k.eu/ibkr-httpapi-six-asset-classes-no-windows-vm-all-real-fucking-money/ Mon, 22 Jun 2026 09:00:00 +0000 https://ciprian.51k.eu/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 ships ...]]>