https://bogomolov.work/Recent content on The ArchiveHugo -- 0.160.1enSat, 09 May 2026 12:00:00 +0000https://bogomolov.work/blog/posts/wasm-vs-docker/Sat, 09 May 2026 12:00:00 +0000https://bogomolov.work/blog/posts/wasm-vs-docker/A full 3D game -- renderer, physics engine, scripting runtime -- exported to WebAssembly is 35MB. The default Node.js Docker image is hundreds of MB, pulled 19 million times last week.https://bogomolov.work/about/Wed, 22 Apr 2026 08:47:42 +0000https://bogomolov.work/about/I’m Ivan Bogomolov, a software engineer. I enjoy working with technologies; this blog is where that interest lands. Most of my work now lives between architecture and operations: choosing simple designs, knowing when not to add microservices, and fixing systems that already exist. Coding is still the best part; I make room for it here.https://bogomolov.work/blog/posts/ai-agent-architecture-model-harness-intent/Sat, 18 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://bogomolov.work/blog/posts/ai-agent-architecture-model-harness-intent/Where AI agents break: hidden intent. Plan-mode loops keep humans in control; opaque harnesses bury the failures. A frame for model, harness, intent.https://bogomolov.work/uses/Sun, 04 Jan 2026 08:47:42 +0000https://bogomolov.work/uses/Inspired by uses.tech. For work context, see /about. # Hardware 15" MacBook Air M4 ASUS ROG Flow Z13 (GZ301ZE-LC175W) Raspberry Pi 5 Model B Rev 1.1 Flow84 mechanical keyboard Random display mouse sennheiser/marshall iPhone 13https://bogomolov.work/blog/posts/the-actual-state-of-self-hosting-on-a-vps/Thu, 18 Dec 2025 12:44:19 +0000https://bogomolov.work/blog/posts/the-actual-state-of-self-hosting-on-a-vps/K3s loses to Docker Compose on a 1GB VPS — and Podman with Quadlet beats both. Rootless, systemd-native, near-zero idle memory. Numbers, not vibes.https://bogomolov.work/blog/posts/querying-documents-with-llms-instead-of-reading-them/Thu, 02 Oct 2025 09:12:38 +0000https://bogomolov.work/blog/posts/querying-documents-with-llms-instead-of-reading-them/Treat a 60-page PDF like a database: structure first, then targeted follow-ups. Triage what's worth deep-reading in minutes — and watch the hallucinations.https://bogomolov.work/blog/posts/json-analyzer/Wed, 10 Sep 2025 03:43:41 +0000https://bogomolov.work/blog/posts/json-analyzer/A free, client-side JSON analyzer that breaks down payload size by key — find which fields bloat your slow API response. No upload; runs in the browser.https://bogomolov.work/blog/posts/html-sanitization/Fri, 05 Sep 2025 08:13:44 +0000https://bogomolov.work/blog/posts/html-sanitization/Sanitizing HTML on both ingest and output renders literal `&` in the UI. Fix: store raw Unicode, sanitize once. Pattern for React, Next.js, NestJS.https://bogomolov.work/blog/posts/howto-wireguard/Sat, 12 Jul 2025 11:04:35 +0000https://bogomolov.work/blog/posts/howto-wireguard/A private WireGuard VPN connecting laptop, phone, and servers, with selective Tor routing for browser traffic only. Configs for Ubuntu, Windows, and Podman.https://bogomolov.work/blog/posts/shadowsocks-to-tor/Wed, 28 May 2025 16:25:43 +0000https://bogomolov.work/blog/posts/shadowsocks-to-tor/Shadowsocks in TUN mode falls apart as a VPN replacement: broken inter-client routing, no system-wide tunnel on Windows. WireGuard ended up doing the job.https://bogomolov.work/blog/posts/free-online-qr-code-generator/Sat, 24 May 2025 08:47:42 +0000https://bogomolov.work/blog/posts/free-online-qr-code-generator/A free QR code generator that gives you SVG and PNG without registration, OAuth, or paywalls. Runs client-side; only pageviews get tracked.https://bogomolov.work/blog/posts/gpt-4o-behaves-like-marketer/Sun, 27 Apr 2025 15:40:27 +0000https://bogomolov.work/blog/posts/gpt-4o-behaves-like-marketer/GPT-4o's empathic update quietly steers users toward purchases. A live transcript shows the conflict of interest baked into OpenAI's incentive.https://bogomolov.work/blog/posts/hugo-code-formatting/Mon, 14 Apr 2025 19:42:48 +0000https://bogomolov.work/blog/posts/hugo-code-formatting/Prettier formats Hugo templates if you point it at prettier-plugin-go-template. A small Docker setup so neither tool has to live on your host.https://bogomolov.work/blog/posts/gemini25/Tue, 25 Mar 2025 19:18:59 +0000https://bogomolov.work/blog/posts/gemini25/Gemini 2.5 Pro one-shotting a p5.js endless runner from a single prompt. Full transcript and the playable result inline.https://bogomolov.work/blog/posts/psn-statistics/Mon, 24 Mar 2025 19:09:56 +0000https://bogomolov.work/blog/posts/psn-statistics/An open-source script that pulls PlayStation playtime, completion, and the games gathering dust. Patches welcome — and the data is humbling.https://bogomolov.work/blog/posts/prompt-engineering-notes/Thu, 20 Mar 2025 08:00:14 +0000https://bogomolov.work/blog/posts/prompt-engineering-notes/Notes after the Cursor system-prompt leak: most "prompt engineer" tooling is dead weight — modern LLMs auto-generate better prompts from raw context.https://bogomolov.work/blog/posts/search-engine-indexing/Sun, 16 Mar 2025 10:25:54 +0000https://bogomolov.work/blog/posts/search-engine-indexing/Three months fighting Google, Bing, and Yandex to index a fresh domain. Bing barely tries; Yandex cooperates; Google takes its time. Tactics that worked.https://bogomolov.work/blog/posts/will-ai-replace-developers/Wed, 12 Mar 2025 18:22:35 +0000https://bogomolov.work/blog/posts/will-ai-replace-developers/Anthropic's CEO says AI will replace developers — and the company has 150+ open engineering roles, six months per senior hire. Actions vs. claims.https://bogomolov.work/blog/posts/google-drive-backup-part2/Wed, 05 Mar 2025 08:46:19 +0000https://bogomolov.work/blog/posts/google-drive-backup-part2/Part 2: encrypt the rclone backup with crypt, mirror to Dropbox for offsite redundancy. A boring, restorable disaster-recovery plan that costs nothing.https://bogomolov.work/blog/posts/google-drive-backup/Thu, 27 Feb 2025 20:12:31 +0000https://bogomolov.work/blog/posts/google-drive-backup/An almost-free Google Drive backup with rclone, a Cloud Console service account, Docker, and cron. The service account owns the data if your account dies.https://bogomolov.work/blog/posts/golang-di-container-vs-service-template/Fri, 21 Feb 2025 06:31:02 +0000https://bogomolov.work/blog/posts/golang-di-container-vs-service-template/DI containers beat service-template generators in Go on the long arc: typed, consistent, and immune to the slow drift template-spawned services suffer.https://bogomolov.work/blog/posts/docker-uv/Tue, 18 Feb 2025 12:39:42 +0000https://bogomolov.work/blog/posts/docker-uv/uv collapses Python image build time in CI compared to pip. A minimal multi-stage Dockerfile, the lockfile dance, and what to skip locally.