Neil Blakey-Milner

Weeknotes: 2025-W26

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Summary

Finally fully caught up on weeknotes. Continued improving my garage workshop in the first half of the week, then switched over to seeing what everyone’s been talking about with Beat Saber on my new Quest 3S.

Officially summer beard season.

Photos

(Based more on time of processing than time of taking…)

Backyard visitor

New toy

Enjoying

Newly discovered

container-use

Container Use lets each of your coding agents use their own containerized environment, allowing for quick clean-up as well, multiple simultaneous changes to the same codebase at the same time without the overhead of creating your own work trees, as well as some level of protection from running within the container itself.

This will make YOLO usage of agents a bit safer - something I’ve been loathe to do thus far.

Highlights

Some will tell you to avoid reinventing the wheel, but they’re wrong: you should build your own wheel, because it’ll teach you more about how they work than reading a thousand books on them ever will.

– “Writing Toy Software Is A Joy” by Joshua Barretto

PKM systems promise coherence, but they often deliver a kind of abstracted confusion. The more I wrote into my vault, the less I felt. A quote would spark an insight, I’d clip it, tag it, link it - and move on. But the insight was never lived. It was stored.

Worse, the architecture began to shape my attention. I started reading to extract. Listening to summarize. Thinking in formats I could file. Every experience became fodder. I stopped wondering and started processing.

– “I Deleted My Second Brain” by Joan Westenberg

This fractal is more complex than the Mandelbrot set - Stand-up Maths

This fractal is more complex than the Mandelbrot set - Stand-up Maths

Enjoyable visual explanation of Mandelbrot and Julia sets and how they’re related.

Building an Airplane Fuselage from 100-Year-Old Blueprints - Xyla Foxlin

Building an Airplane FUSELAGE from 100-Year-Old Blueprints - Xyla Foxlin