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I'm Francesco Di Donato, a software engineer building high-performance SaaS assets and native Mac utilities.

Escaping the hourly trap. Building automated SaaS assets & native Mac utilities. Digital Nomad.

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2024 – 2026

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Generate high-quality captions for your videos in seconds. Built natively for macOS to ensure privacy and peak performance.

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Remote Terminal: iPhone to Mac via Tailscale

April 10, 2026

Remote Terminal: iPhone to Mac via Tailscale

Set up a secure remote terminal from your iPhone to your Mac using Tailscale and Remobi. No port forwarding, no SSH keys, zero internet exposure. Takes five minutes.

BitNet b1.58: The 1-Bit LLM That Matches Full-Precision Models

April 9, 2026

BitNet b1.58: The 1-Bit LLM That Matches Full-Precision Models

BitNet b1.58 replaces every Transformer weight with -1, 0, or 1, cutting energy use by 71.4x while matching FP16 quality at 3B+ parameters. Here is how.

JSON-LD Structured Data for Blogs: A Real Implementation

April 7, 2026

JSON-LD Structured Data for Blogs: A Real Implementation

Pages with structured data are 2.3x more likely to appear in AI Overviews. Here is how I added BlogPosting JSON-LD to my Astro blog with real code.

How to Add Watermarks to Video Before Sending to Clients
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April 5, 2026

How to Add Watermarks to Video Before Sending to Clients

Burned-in watermarks can't be removed by screen recording or format conversion. Here's how to watermark video in your browser for free without uploading.

How to Crop Video for Instagram Reels, TikTok, and YouTube Shorts
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April 5, 2026

How to Crop Video for Instagram Reels, TikTok, and YouTube Shorts

Instagram Reels need 9:16. YouTube Shorts need 9:16. TikTok needs 9:16. Here's how to crop any landscape video to vertical format in your browser for free.

How to Compress Video Without Losing Quality (2026 Guide)
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April 5, 2026

How to Compress Video Without Losing Quality (2026 Guide)

A 5-minute iPhone 4K recording is 1.8 GB. Here's how to shrink it 90% without visible quality loss using bitrate targeting, resolution scaling, and browser-based WebCodecs.

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