Sovereign AI on a Synology NAS for a Small Agency
A practical look at what a small agency needs to make a Synology NAS searchable with a local AI stack on a Mac Studio, and what is still undecided.
Tools
Honest takes on the tools I use daily. What earned its place in my stack, what I dropped, and why most "best of" lists are useless. 24 posts
Running a baseball weekend with Heja, iScore, and WhatsApp
A simple workflow for a five-team baseball club using Heja, iScore, WhatsApp, a 4-inning rotation PDF, and Instagram batching instead of heavy sports software.
When a ChatGPT sync bug made my Mac the source of truth
A ChatGPT projects sync bug left my desktop app and the web client disagreeing about reality, so I treated one Mac as the source of truth and reached it remotely.
Why Littlebird Sits At The Center Of My AI Stack
I cancelled my separate AI subscriptions and centered the stack on Littlebird, with a Mac Studio as a sovereign AI hub and a single context loop.
Replacing Three Client Dashboards With One Local n8n
A client needed recurring reports from three different dashboards. One local n8n instance can take over the work, cut SaaS costs, and keep their data closer to home.
Why my posts now start with five bullets
I stopped asking my automation to invent posts from topics and started feeding it five ugly bullets from real life instead. The system did not change much, but the writing did.
The client code I will not paste into an AI tool
A practical line between “helpful AI code review” and “leaking your client’s business model,” based on operational privacy rather than legal fine print.
The Schema.org Markup Every Client Site Should Ship With
The structured data I ship on almost every client project fits on a single page. This is the JSON-LD I actually deploy, not theory.
Shooting With Restraint: iPhone, Lightroom, And A Component Mindset
Photography got way better for me when I dropped the gear chase and treated images like components in a system: shot on an iPhone, finished in Lightroom, used on the web.
Killing CalendarBridge and RankPill: An Honest Audit of My Setapp Stack
I killed CalendarBridge and RankPill, then audited my entire Setapp stack. This is how I trimmed the bloat without losing any real capability.
The Tower Workflow That Keeps My Mac Studio And MacBook Air Perfectly In Sync
How I keep a Mac Studio and a MacBook Air in sync using Tower, Git and a few strict rules, so I can jump between desk and couch without merge hell.
Mac Studio As My Daily AI Workhorse (And How I Actually Use The GPU)
How I use a Mac Studio as a daily AI development box, where Apple Silicon shines for AI workloads, and how to avoid the usual GPU bottlenecks.