Vlady Yakovenko · Personal archive §0x00 Index · PLY-IDX

Designer working across software, visuals, and sound.

Based in Castelfranco Emilia, Italy 44.5967° N · 11.0525° E Local
Castelfranco Emilia
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Portrait of Vlady Yakovenko, 2023
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I work at the intersection of design and engineering: interfaces that hold up structurally and read clearly, built with the same care at the system level as at the pixel level.

Years of making music, visuals, and interactive work taught me composition, timing, and systems thinking — and all of it feeds back into how I design software.

Record · 2017–2026 7 releases and 19 posts, one leaf each
Releases and posts per year, 2017 to 2026: 2017: 1, 2018: 0, 2019: 1, 2020: 2, 2021: 1, 2022: 0, 2023: 0, 2024: 4, 2025: 3, 2026: 14.
  1. 2017 1
  2. 2018 0
  3. 2019 1
  4. 2020 2
  5. 2021 1
  6. 2022 0
  7. 2023 0
  8. 2024 4
  9. 2025 3
  10. 2026 14
A

A few things I've made

4 of 7 applications

Not a complete list. Just a few recurring artifacts — each with its full story in the applications gallery.

  • I Live

    Patcher

    Founder-built product for Eurorack musicians: patch editor, rack planner, and community module database shaped around a real workflow pain point.

    Platform
    Web
    Ver
    v6.5
    Since
    2021
    Stat
    actively maintained since 2021
    • Product
    • Angular
    • TypeScript
    • Supabase
    • Open Source
  • II Pre-release

    Kinetip

    A native macOS driver that makes a pen tablet a first-class pointing device — absolute positioning and context-aware inertial scrolling, built in Swift.

    Platform
    macOS
    Stat
    in daily use, release hardening
    • macOS
    • Swift
    • Realtime
    • Accessibility
  • IV Live

    CostaMeno

    Mobile-first utility that turns Italian fuel-price open data into a fast, trustworthy tool with no login, no ads, and no tracking.

    Platform
    Web · mobile-first
    • Next.js
    • TypeScript
    • Open Data
    • Civic Tech
  • III In development

    Impulse

    A node-based WebGPU visual engine for live AV performance, built as a transparent TypeScript alternative to opaque proprietary creative tools.

    Platform
    Web
    Stat
    used in performance prep
    • WebGPU
    • TypeScript
    • Creative Tooling
    • Systems Design
B

Writing

3 of 19 posts

A few places to begin.

  1. No. 018

    Layers and Ensembles: Engineering a Development Loop Like a Network

    How a sentence I kept typing to my AI agents turned into a skill system, and why it ended up shaped like a neural network: depth, width and a council of specialists.

    • AI
    • Workflow
    • Agents
    • Architecture
    • Process
  2. No. 009

    Impulse — A Visual Engine Built for Live Performance (and AI)

    I perform audiovisual sets. TouchDesigner taught me how visual engines work, and its interface convinced me to build my own.

    • WebGPU
    • Three.js
    • Creative Coding
    • MIDI
    • Web Audio
    • TypeScript
    • Live Performance
    App · Impulse
  3. No. 012

    Home Assistant as Infrastructure, Not a Hobby

    A dedicated server, a UPS, cheap AliExpress switches and a lot of YAML. How I rebuilt my home automation from scratch so I could actually rely on it.

    • Home Assistant
    • Self-Hosting
    • TrueNAS
    • Homelab
    • Smart Home
    • Networking