small software & other experiments
I build small tools I actually use and write the occasional note so I don't forget how they work. Nothing here is polished — it's a workbench, not a shop.
Tiny CLI that renames photos to their EXIF capture time. One binary, no config.
lstamp *.jpg
Log viewer that collapses repeated lines into one with a counter. Handy when a service spams the same warning all night.
Turns a folder of Markdown notes into a linked HTML page. Powers this site, in fact.
A short walk through WAL mode and why PRAGMA synchronous=NORMAL
is usually the right trade-off for a single-writer app.
Shipping a Go tool as one file that runs anywhere turned out to be the single biggest quality-of-life win of the year.
Why I started writing these at all, and the two-line template I use for each one.
I'm Ilya, a backend developer somewhere in the Baltics. I like boring technology, keyboards that click, and long walks without a phone. This site is a personal notebook — if something here helped you, that's a nice bonus.
Reach me at hi@yatebyamognu.eu.cc.