All The rest api Shit | Ciprian Mandache

decidealot: Stop Making a Chatbot Write an Essay When You Needed a Fucking 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 …

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AI Agents / Bash / Containers

codexbox: Four Environment Variables and a mkdir Standing Between You and OpenAI’s 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 …

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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 …

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Containers / Python / Trading

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 …

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AI Agents / Containers / Python

aicodebox: One Base Image, Any AI Coding Agent, Four Modes You Didn’t Have To Write

I built claudebox because letting Claude Code run loose on my host was giving me chest pains. It worked. It grew an HTTP API, an OpenAI-compatible endpoint, an MCP server, …

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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 …

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 …

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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 …

AI Agents / Bash / Containers

pibox: Three 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 …

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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 …