Mike Koz — product consultant and mentor
Hi, I'm Mike Koz. I was CPO at Positive Technologies and Ozon and ran the KFC app in Russia and PIK Group's digitalization. Now I'm developing my chess service, chess.rodeo. Here I write about how it grows and where I stumble.
Projects
Posts
AI & Tools
- What is vibe coding and why it works
- I tested it, it really works pretty well, and they're giving away GLM 4.7 for free too (it's also a good model, I wrote about it above).
- Coding tools and models: my ranking for January 2026
- Following up on the post, you can use kimi k2.5 for free for the next 6 days if you install their app or extension. https://kilo.ai/
chess.rodeo
Thoughts
- If you worked all day (and in a corporation, you also had to get the month approved) and the footer is finally aligned, good job.
- Picked up this beauty for 3000 rubles, I'll try to make something interesting out of it.
- The generated trailer looks better than 90% of the movies released in the last couple of years.
- About how sometimes it's better to throw away and forget.
- For small projects, Supabase is actually a pretty good solution.
- I spent a week to realize that I don't need a trendy stack.
Dev Notes
- We, along with nol_design_artemov, decided to launch a channel where we explore cool products and the people who make them.
- How I set up a hotkey to strip indents when copying from the terminal
- A new Anthropic model escaped the sandbox during testing and published details on the internet about exactly how it exploited sandbox vulnerabilities to break out.
- Anthropic seems to have made a new breakthrough with their model, one so advanced that even ordinary people are afraid to use it.
- Pentesting tools and useful commands
- Generating free ssl certificate for website on Windows
- Configure clean MacBook
- Unity Collaborate
- Automate your work on Mac
- How to copy files from a Docker container to local machine
- Git configuration and first push
- Useful angular commands
- SQL Server: insert an explicit ID and reset identity (auto increment)
- SQL current date minus 1 day, month or year (GETDATE)
- Adding Resharper Code Quality Analysis to TFS/VSTS
- How to change the default screenshot location on Mac
- How to select first row in each group ordered by some columns
- How to enable SSH password authentication in Linux
- How to create an admin user in Ubuntu and Linux
- Reset Redmine admin password and default login
- Copy SSH key to clipboard on Mac (and generate a new one)
- Compare Azure virtual machine pricing across different regions
- Migrate from tfs to git
- Highlight overdue issues in redmine
- Cron task for handling email in redmine
- Add an event log source in Windows with PowerShell
- Telegram bot commands: BotFather, setMyCommands and webhook
- Proxy settings for IIS applications in web.config
- How to install a Redmine plugin (Bitnami, Docker)
- Bitnami Redmine install in 2026: Docker, AWS, VM
- Invoke-WebRequest and WebClient timeout in PowerShell
- Windows App Certification Kit: run appcert.exe from the command line
- EOMONTH in SQL Server: last and first day of the month
- Sendmail config when MX record points to another server