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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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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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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Running Local LLMs on a Strix Halo Laptop

Benchmarking gpt-oss-120b and smaller models on an AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 'Strix Halo' laptop with llama.cpp to gauge whether local LLM inference is viable.

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Bank Statement Review with AI

Building the Statement Processor surfaced a Docling table-extraction bug that dropped rows from digital bank statement PDFs, and a sum check that catches it.

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