Igor Varyvoda

I started Press because I wanted to play with GPUI.

A friend looked at Press and asked whether it was worth scattering my attention on another project.

An image can be the right size for a hero and too large for a thumbnail on the same page.

VibeQ had a closeout path that accepted an agent’s reported commit and test result as text.

An image can look right, pass review and still be unsafe to publish.

On 30 August I made Wanderer the product on Earth Roulette’s homepage.

Hey, I’m Igor.

The first folder I pointed my desktop image auditor at was imageguide/public.

I have a lot of side projects.

For a few years, I had no useful answer to “what do you do?”

One of my agent skills is triggered by “cosplay AGI”.

Start with the files you already have A folder of product photos, screenshots or website exports often needs a few things before it is useful: a look through the files, smaller dimensions, a better format, perhaps a background removed.

On Saturday 15 August 2026, my GitHub log showed thirty-one pushes across three repositories, and two brand-new repositories created eight seconds apart at 20:04.

There is a folder on my machine called skills.

1 Aug 2026 · written from Studio strategy notes Sirv Studio includes a DAM, product data, supplier intake, workflows, an API, and an MCP server.

A few days ago I opened earendil.com and forgot why I came.

The plan comes first I built improve-codex because an audit finding is not yet an implementation task.

I kept repeating the same advice Image work gets messy fast.

In 2019 I wrote a guide to image SEO for e-commerce.

improve-codex packages the audit and implementation loop I use on mature repositories. npx skills add igorvaryvoda/improve-codex Then ask the installed skill to audit the repository or execute selected plans: $improve-codex $improve-codex deep security $…

2 Jul 2026 · data: 23 Mar to 2 Jul · one repo, three contributors, every commit counted The Studio build record has an unusual curve.

It started over a beer Some coworkers were visiting me in Herceg Novi.

I needed a queue I could trust On 5 March 2026 I needed a task board that Veniamin and I would actually use for Sirv Studio.

Advice needs somewhere to be tested I have written about product images since 2018.

Why I wanted it Living in Montenegro, I did not need one clean textbook standard.

A label that hid the wrong calculation In August 2026, the analytics page labelled a value Average MRR while calculating it from cash collected over the selected period.

I wanted less bookkeeping Most finance trackers work perfectly if you enjoy entering every purchase by hand.

Start with a sentence, not a form Most travel planners begin by making you fill in a small tax return.

Historical guide from 2023.

The problem Good product media is specialised work.

Russia is waging an unprovoked and vicious war against Ukraine.

Why it exists I built UaHelp after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine to make one question easier to answer: what can somebody do right now that is concrete and useful?

Why it exists Travel sites are very good at selling you a hotel after you already know where you are going.

The original article was posted on Sirv’s blog Archived Sirv article from 2020.

Why it exists Video downloaders have a special talent for making a basic job feel suspicious.

Update, July 2026: I checked this advice again seven years later.

The original article was posted on Sirv’s blog Archived Sirv article from 2018.