Projects

[soviet.recipes]

Digitizing "The Book of Tasty and Healthy Food" - a Soviet-era cookbook that survived an empire's collapse, an ocean crossing, and decades as a family heirloom. Using OCR, vision-language models, and document processing pipelines to extract data from 224 high-resolution book page images.

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Statement Processor

An extensible tool for extracting transaction data from PDF bank and credit card statements. Find exactly which vendors to update when your card is lost, stolen, or expires.

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Kiro SDLC Toolkit

Five Kiro Powers, two Steering files, and setup instructions for an optional Hook and MCP server, installed with one prompt. The companion toolkit for the Agentic AI SDLC guide.

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Recent Posts

This Is Not Bogdan

A reflection on identity, representation, and the tension between the digital self and the real self in an age of AI and algorithmic personas.

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AI is Magic: Resisting the Pull of the Wizard's Ritual

AI use follows the same shape as historical magic: an appeal to a force nobody can audit, for personal gain, that sometimes ends badly.

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Context Anxiety in Kiro: Claude Opus 5 at 30% Usage

Kiro's context meter read 30% while Claude Opus 5 reported no context left. The behavior has a name, context anxiety, and both a production write-up and a peer-reviewed paper describe it.

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Recycling Old Tech: A Segmented Home Network and a Private Media Server

Turning a spare ISP gateway and a decommissioned enterprise appliance into a segmented home network with a private Jellyfin media server for home videos and AI-generated kids' music.

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