If you use AI agents or do vibe coding, you know how quickly repositories pile up across different accounts and providers. Personal GitHub, work GitHub, or even a self-hosted server like Forgejo… and suddenly you have dozens of repos cloned with the wrong identity, crossed credentials, and a monumental mess. This happened to someone very close to me — a non-technical person who is creating many “projects” with agentic AI and, like anyone starting with Git for versioning and backups, was going crazy. I created Gitbox to help “non-developers” manage multiple accounts and clones more easily, without them stepping on each other. If you’re a developer, think of it as another alternative — and if you like it, go ahead. I use it on all my desktops and headless machines. …

Downloading LLM models locally is something you do occasionally, but when you pull a massive 122B parameter model like Sehyo/Qwen3.5-122B-A10B-NVFP4, the download hogs the entire connection and leaves the rest of the household without internet. The Hugging Face CLI (huggingface-cli or hf) doesn’t have a --limit-rate flag, so you need to find alternatives. In this post I explain two ways to limit bandwidth on Linux using Docker (my preferred method) or Wondershaper at the host level. …

Apple Creator Studio is Apple’s new subscription that bundles its professional creative tools: Final Cut Pro, Motion, Compressor, Logic Pro and Pixelmator Pro. In this post I describe how I organize my video projects to make the most of available disks and keep everything under control. The challenge isn’t using Final Cut Pro – which is quite intuitive – but managing the file hierarchy across disks without ending up with orphaned libraries, overflowing caches, or losing raw footage. After several family projects, I’ve consolidated a protocol that works for me. …

I’ve been seeing people giving nicknames to their AI assistant. I’ve taken to calling mine “Sancho” (Panza), a nod to that lovable character – a practical, down-to-earth, loyal and skeptical fellow who avoids his own “hallucinations.” Let’s see if I can find time here and there to write notes about Agentic AI. One of Sancho’s key decisions is to rely on concrete abilities – Agent Skills, an architecture designed for AI models to learn and execute specific procedures in a persistent manner. …

Personal Knowledge Management (PKM) is a challenge. I’ve been taking notes for years, accumulating ideas, notes, meeting notes. I’ve tried everything: paper, loose files, Evernote, Notes.app, Craft, Standard Notes and Notion. They all promised to be “the definitive one.” None of them were. The problem isn’t the application, it’s the model. When your notes live in a proprietary format, on someone else’s servers, you’re renting your knowledge. And one day the company shuts down, raises prices, or you simply decide to switch… and you discover that migrating is hell. …

I just discovered pdfly (pronounced PDF-ly), the Swiss army knife for working with PDFs from the command line (CLI). It’s an application written purely in Python, designed to extract (meta)data and manipulate PDF files. It’s based on the fpdf2 and pypdf libraries, is a free and open-source project with no commercial affiliation, and is licensed under BSD-3-Clause. …