Weeknotes #50 (October 18, 2025)
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Things I found, read, did, and produced this past week.
Things I consumed
- As part of my friend's movie night, I suggested RRR, a 2022 Indian film telling a fictionalized tale of two revolutionaries during the british control of India. It was a long movie with a length of over 3 hours, and yet it definitely kept me engaged with the over the topness of the comedy and personal struggles and motivations for the main characters.
- Pokemon Legends: Z-A, the newest game in the series came out this past week. Set entirely in Lumiose City based on Paris and the setting previously seen in the 3DS X & Y games changes the traditional turn-based gameplay loop into a more action based RPG. I've played about 10 hours so far and although I still have some gripes here and there, I do appreciate the evolution of the series and am interested to see how this evolves into the 10th generation of games coming likely next year.
- Agent Skills is a new extension of Claude where you write markdown files explaining how you want to extend the standard models / provide it tools for doing certain actions. I think what is beneficial for this is the security model around them that when running it against the API or using the Claude.ai website, if it needs to execute code or examine files, it is all done in a container on Anthropic's servers with very limited networking at all beyond initialization of the container, so that is hopeful to block a good amount of people trying to do prompt injection and exfiltrating data / secrets that you don't want exposed. As well when used with claude code, any actual code execution is run locally and ony the end result is then passed back up to the model, so in that case a user can protect themselves similar with restricted container / virtualization techniques.
- The Apple M5 chip has been released with updates to the MacBook Pro, iPad Pro, and Vision Pro all getting the new chip. Compared to the M4 it seems to again be incremental improvements, but some highlights I've seen is the base iPad Pros now come with 12GB of memory and on top of all of this, none of the prices have risen, compared to a month ago where the iPhone Pro went up $100 to allow the iPhone Air to take the $1000 USD slot. I mainly have a lot of M1 hardware and it is still kicking and not seeing any slowdown so I am probably going to hold off on personally upgrading any of my M1 hardware for now.