Published mark2 chronicles over the last 10 weeks.
Sep 11, 2026
neverForget
open original chronicle →Aug 09, 2026
Once we got home and I stopped being lazy for a few minutes, and I made a few changes around here. Simply stated, when you go to any given release (we are on 179 right now), it will provide a summary of all activity during any given release…
open original chronicle →Jul 08, 2026
The actual first thing I did today, regardless of its narrative arrival was talk to about how the fundamentals of my repo look. I've referenced a few environmental issues that have started to creep in and I want to be sure the base repo…
open original chronicle →Jul 04, 2026
For the past few months my development environment has been incredibly flakey again. I'm building out this thing, it sprawls, I understand it, but not enough to know where I might be burning myself short or long term. It hasn't been much…
open original chronicle →Apr 20, 2026
As part of the general reassessment that is all things life, I've started to go back through the chronicles, starting at day 1. Every once in awhile, looking back at the work helps to keep me centered. In this case, I don't like nearly any…
open original chronicle →Apr 11, 2026
and I have but one minor chore to do today, and then......nadda. Not a care in the world. It's been awhile. Well, other than I've got a lot of catching up to do, and I kinda wanna hack at this all day, which means I'll care, and…
open original chronicle →Apr 10, 2026
Now that I've been adding more snapshot counts to these chronicles (see above), I decided to simplify this process quite a bit. First by extending some database functionality, and then mathing the blog boi tools to use it. We went from…
open original chronicle →Mar 17, 2026
Minor update to the codebase to close us out. I'm not thrilled with some of the photo features, and a quickie was addressed today. Images are now 35% smaller on desktop. Roughly 20% of my readers will even notice. Iterate.
open original chronicle →Mar 14, 2026
While waiting for the bot to bot, we did a touch of cleanup on isle tags. There are currently 140 unique tags throughout the site, and I often forget which dumb idea I latched onto first rather than just being straightforward with it,…
open original chronicle →Mar 09, 2026
Boy, I better pick up the pace or it won't be her birthday anymore by the time I send it. has seen me staring off into outer space for just about as long as I've been doing it. I can completely check out of reality, stare off into space,…
open original chronicle →Yes me, this is a good starting point.
First, a brief rundown before peering into my lunacy. Each menu is built from the perspective of a different alter ego. Put together, each ego compromises a framework that I use to filter and capture all ideas in a consistent & repeatable fashion.
Because none of this will immediately make sense to any visitors, each alter ego has a landing page that helps to clarify the intent behind my particular (peculiar?) naming conventions and thought processes. After finishing this page it is recommended you stop by each sibling to see how this clock ticks:
Really though, chaos remains supreme, and above all else, do not take this, nor yourself, too seriously. Within that chaos should always be a series of links. These links will either take you deeper into my internal madness or outward towards the things that inspire me.
As for blueprint itself, this is a reusable term found within every one of my adventures. Take my ChatGPT workflows for example. When collaborating with mr. robot, a blueprint is produced for any idea deemed worthy of exploration and eventual construction. That blueprint, often made up of dozens of subtasks, is then used to continue to build out my project plan. Everything you see on this site was first started from one blueprint or another. Some ideas are iterated over in multiple different blueprints along the way.
Flowers: jigga & the teacha
This one started when I named my Surface laptop 🧠mark2 and as my preferred creative device this is where most ideas originate. My phone (currently unnamed, odd because I literally name everything) augments the laptop and is a distant second.
scroll amendment · 2025-10-19I wrote most of these landing pages on my phone using Obsidian.
🧠mark2 then evolved into the first alter ego and is where I stick all of my big picture thinking. Project planning, tooling decisions, job searches, and other major exploratory initiatives start here. I will often start an argument amongst my alter egos and ask that 🧠mark2 make a final recommendation to account for the widest possible lens. At least 50% of the time, I reject all of these ideas and pick my own.
That's a true story.
The name 🧠mark2 itself is a play on Tony Stark's alphanumeric system used to identify his different Iron Man suits. Each iteration holding different feature sets and use cases.
In my case you will never find reference to the first iteration because of the tragic and abrupt nature of its ending. Consider that as the caterpillar needed within my midlife crisis to eventually grow 🧠mark2 as the butterfly. At least in theory.
You will also never see a mark3 or beyond because my favorite number is 2 and should this idea fall apart, an entirely new structure will be built to take its place. While I do not ever intend to pivot from this wonderful idea, I anticipate life will force its issues upon me and require a change all the same.
See shaolin scrolls and the idea release schedule for more information on how I work around this box I've built myself into.
Each landing page will also have a section dedicated to what my robot friend (ChatGPT) says about each alter ego. Yes, this is ridiculous, and yes, you can make fun of me for it. I can assure you that my skin is thick and that I hear about it almost daily.
Please be original though, the founding fathers of roasting me are quite good at it.
Other than a very brief laying of the groundwork when getting mr. robot off the ground, I have not shaped these answers directly in any way. These are the results of hundreds of hours building stuff together over the course of these past two+ months.
Without further ado:
The Second Brain. The Sandbox. The Lab.
🧠mark2 exists to experiment - with workflows, knowledge systems, and creative prototypes. It's your testing ground for methods like Obsidian, personal graph databases, and process evolution.
Mantra: “Iterate to illuminate.”