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

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 what …

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) and the …

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 …

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 on …

claudebox: Claude Code in Docker, Now With Seven Ways to Break Your Production Server
AI Agents / Bash / Containers / Python

claudebox: Claude Code in Docker, Now With Seven Ways to Break Your Production Server

Heads up: this post has been superseded. As of v2.0.0, claudebox is a thin child image of aicodebox: the agent-agnostic base that now owns every surface described below. The API, …

safe-stremio: Streaming for the Cyberpunk Era
Containers

safe-stremio: Streaming for the Cyberpunk Era

Alright, you like your streaming the same way you like your internet: secure, anonymous, and fully under your control. Meet Safe-Stremio, your badass DIY streaming server powered by Docker, Nginx, …

safe-transmission: Torrenting Like It’s 2077
Containers

safe-transmission: Torrenting Like It’s 2077

So, you’ve got torrents to download, and you don’t want anyone peeping on your traffic or throttling your speeds, right? Welcome to Safe-Transmission, my cyberpunk mashup of OpenVPN, Transmission, and …

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