Neil Blakey-Milner

Now

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Location

Seattle since October 2015
Mountain View (2011-2015)
Cape Town (2000-2011)
Grahamstown (1997-2000)

Work

Doing my own thing (since December 2024)
Facebook Meta (2011-2024)
SynthaSite Yola (2007-2010)

Personal projects

Currently at least somewhat active

Obsidian starter video/post (Feb 2025)
Building a cabinet for my 3D printer (since forever, but any time now…)
Exploring a matching game idea in Bevy

Recent

Setting up and publishing Weeknotes (Oct 2024-Feb 2025)
Taking some woodworking classes (and built a tray!) (Jan/Feb 2025)
Setting up this very site (Feb 2024 and on)
Setting up my homelab multi-GPU server (Jan/Feb 2024)
Advent of Code 2023 (Dec 2023)

On pause

“Learning Rust through Advent of Code” blog series (Dec 2023-)
Working slowly towards my “Leveling up” book

Future?

Revamping my personal authentication story
More Bevy experimentation/playing is always on the cards
Finally looking at Neovim?
Finally make some personal video content? (including Motion Canvas, Manim, and friends)
Experiment with Tauri, Slint, and other Rust-friendly GUI/app frameworks
Combining Stable Diffusion, structured input, and projection mapping for great justice?