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. …

Kubernetes (K8s) is an open-source platform for automating the deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications. It was built to work with Docker and depending on who you talk to, they’ll either say it’s hell or a piece of cake. The truth? If you’ve struggled with infrastructure (servers, networks), logged many hours with Linux, Docker and containers, it might not be that hellish and it’ll depend on how many hours you put in. Like most of my posts, this is based on documenting my Home Lab, with hours of testing, things that stop working when you least expect it. But the good thing is you learn a ton and, if you’re a bit of a geek, you even have fun. Here’s my experience, with tricks, mistakes and everything I wish I’d known before starting. …

Proxmox VE is a powerful and easy-to-use open-source virtualization platform that enables the deployment and management of virtual machines (VMs with KVM/QEMU) and containers (CTs based on LXC). If you have little experience it might be a bit daunting, which is why I recommend this wonderful project: Proxmox VE Helper-Scripts, where you’ll find hundreds of scripts to make your life easier installing CTs or VMs on top of your Proxmox. …