https://avgrebenkin.com/ 2026-08-10 monthly 1.0 https://avgrebenkin.com/images/og-cover.jpg Aleksei Grebenkin — iOS and full-stack engineer, founder of Speak-Y https://avgrebenkin.com/images/avgrebenkin_avatar.jpg Portrait of Aleksei Grebenkin https://avgrebenkin.com/images/speak-y/01_main_screen.webp Speak-Y app — list of voice notes and transcripts https://avgrebenkin.com/images/speak-y/02_recording.webp Speak-Y app — recording a voice note with live waveform https://avgrebenkin.com/images/speak-y/03_custom_keyboard.webp Speak-Y app — custom voice keyboard for dictating into any iOS app https://avgrebenkin.com/images/speak-y/04_ai_smart_mode.webp Speak-Y app — AI smart mode settings for cleaning up dictated text https://avgrebenkin.com/images/speak-y/05_ai_result.webp Speak-Y app — dictated speech turned into formatted text by AI https://avgrebenkin.com/images/speak-y/06_cross-device_sync.webp Speak-Y app — cross-device sync between macOS, Windows and iOS https://avgrebenkin.com/images/ryadom/phone1.webp Ryadom app — nearby feed with posts from local people and businesses https://avgrebenkin.com/images/ryadom/phone2.webp Ryadom app — business profile with map location and loyalty programme https://avgrebenkin.com/images/ryadom/phone3.webp Ryadom app — post with photo and video gallery, likes and comments https://avgrebenkin.com/images/ryadom/phone4.webp Ryadom app — full-screen media viewer with reactions and comments https://avgrebenkin.com/images/ryadom/phone5.webp Ryadom app — long-form post from a local business https://avgrebenkin.com/images/ryadom/phone6.webp Ryadom app — QR check-in and VIP loyalty card for subscribers https://avgrebenkin.com/images/babydayka/screenshot_feed_en.webp Babydayka app — family feed of baby photos and milestones https://avgrebenkin.com/images/babydayka/screenshot_private_posts_en.webp Babydayka app — private posts visible only to invited family https://avgrebenkin.com/images/babydayka/screenshot_measurement_graphs_en.webp Babydayka app — height and weight growth graphs https://avgrebenkin.com/images/babydayka/screenshot_keep_health_en.webp Babydayka app — health and vaccination tracking https://avgrebenkin.com/images/babydayka/screenshot_celebrate_achievements_en.webp Babydayka app — baby development milestones https://avgrebenkin.com/images/babydayka/screenshot_likes_and_comments_en.webp Babydayka app — likes and comments from family members https://avgrebenkin.com/images/babydayka/screenshot_subscription_by_invitation_en.webp Babydayka app — invite-only subscription to a child's journal https://avgrebenkin.com/images/talks/speak-y-cofounder-meeting.jpg Aleksei Grebenkin presenting Speak-Y at the Co-Founder Meeting in Batumi, March 2026 https://avgrebenkin.com/images/talks/method-dispatch-in-swift.jpg Aleksei Grebenkin speaking on method dispatch in Swift at the iOS meetup in Tbilisi, October 2023 https://avgrebenkin.com/images/notes/ramble-sessions.webp Ramble sessions: the technique finally has a name https://avgrebenkin.com/images/notes/autonomous-agents-risk.webp This one actually felt like Skynet https://avgrebenkin.com/images/notes/hugging-face-breach.webp An AI broke into Hugging Face. Here is what actually happened. https://avgrebenkin.com/images/notes/llm-attribution-gap.webp Marketing has an attribution gap, and nobody has closed it https://avgrebenkin.com/images/notes/dictation-productivity.webp What actually moved my productivity this year https://avgrebenkin.com/images/notes/context-engineering.webp Context engineering is the defining skill of 2026 https://avgrebenkin.com/images/notes/context-before-code.webp Context before code https://avgrebenkin.com/images/notes/ai-code-capacity.webp AI-generated code is becoming an infrastructure problem https://avgrebenkin.com/images/notes/pay-transparency.webp Open salary ranges: I like the direction https://avgrebenkin.com/images/notes/productivity-panic.webp Productivity panic: AI made cognitive load higher, not lower https://avgrebenkin.com/images/notes/spec-driven-development.webp Spec-driven development will become the norm https://avgrebenkin.com/images/notes/engineering-fundamentals.webp The entry bar dropped. The quality bar went up. https://avgrebenkin.com/images/notes/ide-vs-terminal.webp IDE or terminal: where programming is actually moving https://avgrebenkin.com/images/notes/my-stack.webp My stack in 2026 https://avgrebenkin.com/images/notes/prompting-bottleneck.webp Your keyboard is the bottleneck https://avgrebenkin.com/research/ 2026-08-27 monthly 0.8 https://avgrebenkin.com/images/research/find-your-city.jpg Find your city — a globe of 303 cities, each dot sized by its score https://avgrebenkin.com/images/research/cities-globe.webp Globe with 303 cities marked as dots, sized by score https://avgrebenkin.com/research/cities/ 2026-08-27 yearly 0.8 https://avgrebenkin.com/images/research/find-your-city.jpg Find your city — 303 cities, twelve metrics, your weights