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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 …

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 …

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

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-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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