https://webmonch.dev/blog AI/DevOps/Infra en-us hey@webmonch.dev (Vladyslav Melnychenko) hey@webmonch.dev (Vladyslav Melnychenko) Tue, 30 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMT https://webmonch.dev/blog/fixing-ipod-nano-3g-sound-quality https://webmonch.dev/blog/fixing-ipod-nano-3g-sound-quality After purchasing a used iPod Nano 3G - a glorious little player I used to have in high school - I notied it sounded absolutely *horrible*. First thought - I got scammed. But it was much more interesting than that. Tue, 30 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMT hey@webmonch.dev (Vladyslav Melnychenko) appleipodipod nano https://webmonch.dev/blog/building-prompt-to-video-remotion-template https://webmonch.dev/blog/building-prompt-to-video-remotion-template What started as fixing some Python types turned into shipping an entire AI video template. Here's how a few PRs snowballed into becoming a top contributor to a 34k-star project. Mon, 03 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMT hey@webmonch.dev (Vladyslav Melnychenko) remotionossopen source https://webmonch.dev/blog/how-to-set-up-dev-staging-pages-in-next-js https://webmonch.dev/blog/how-to-set-up-dev-staging-pages-in-next-js This simple NextJS config will allow you to create pages that are visible only in non-production environments on Vercel. Tue, 10 Jun 2025 00:00:00 GMT hey@webmonch.dev (Vladyslav Melnychenko) nextjsvercel https://webmonch.dev/blog/nextjs-analytics-bypass-adblockers https://webmonch.dev/blog/nextjs-analytics-bypass-adblockers A large percentage of users on the modern web use ad blockers. Many of those block events from "good" analytics like Sentry or PostHog. But often those events are crucial to making our product better. Fortunately, there is a simple way to solve this. Sun, 11 May 2025 00:00:00 GMT hey@webmonch.dev (Vladyslav Melnychenko) nextjsvercelanalytics https://webmonch.dev/blog/making-an-alternative-to-apple-hide-my-email https://webmonch.dev/blog/making-an-alternative-to-apple-hide-my-email I used Apple's Hide My Email service for quite some time, but a few weeks ago I decided I'd had enough. The constant waiting for it to load and generate new addresses was painfully slow. So I built my own Hide My Mail service on top of Cloudflare and open-sourced it. Sat, 05 Apr 2025 00:00:00 GMT hey@webmonch.dev (Vladyslav Melnychenko) osscloudflareemail https://webmonch.dev/blog/analyzing-app-reviews-with-ai https://webmonch.dev/blog/analyzing-app-reviews-with-ai How I analyzed tens of thousands of Android app reviews to extract valuable insights, including users' pain points, feature requests, customer personas, mentioned alternatives, and biggest frustrations using Python and LLMs. Sat, 18 May 2024 00:00:00 GMT hey@webmonch.dev (Vladyslav Melnychenko) ossllmai https://webmonch.dev/blog/buliding-app-send-dev https://webmonch.dev/blog/buliding-app-send-dev I built AppSend.dev, a free developer tool for sharing mobile builds that is now used by teams at companies like Siemens Energy, Polaris, and MTN. Mon, 01 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT hey@webmonch.dev (Vladyslav Melnychenko) ossmobiledevtools