bneil.me
bneil.me
Ben Neil
This website is the personal site of Ben Neil, a lifelong programmer and generalist. This site is always a work in progress, constantly evolving and growing as I explore new technologies and ideas.
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TL;DR: A pinned sidebar panel that shows a date-sorted table of all notes linking to currently viewing. Usually in obsidian I have a graph view of open but ive found this to be better in understanding connections, since i can view the...
W is for Weird At first I was thinking to say ‘websites’ for this prompt, but then I thought, lets go with ‘weird websites’. So many of these i discovered on the useless web and drip with that web 1.0 vibe. I miss the culture and days...
V is for Vertigo When thinking of a fun word to have with V, I thought it would be fun to admit a weird weakness I have for elevators. For some reason, every time I leave an elevator that has ascended after more then a few floors, I get...
U is for Ultralisk I don’t talk about starcraft. Its one of my favorite games and I absolutely love playing zerg. I don’t care how much ive lost. But there is something about being the swarm. Being the obviously the most adaptable of the...
T is for Tavern (short fiction) The thing about riding the same twenty miles every Saturday is that you know your route. You know it and you memorize what you see along the way. The faulty sprinkler that kicks off in your far neighbors...
S is for Smoke Thought a little 4-20 subject would be fun. I was trying to think, back in college and earlier what I used to get up to on this day and honestly, I can’t remember. Joke or not it cracked me up. So what was my favorite...
R is for Riddle So I don’t have many original riddles, but when ‘R’ came around I thought id share it. So without much ado: If cyclops from the X-Men, came out one night, after dusk, to the breaking waves of the pacific ocean. Then upon...
Q is for Quiet One thing I miss growing up, was visiting my grandparents long gone house. It was in Northern California, pretty far from the interstate and even far far, at least in memory from much light. I remember summers visiting...
P is for Page While writing online has its function. Its endless virtual space that can be thought of as pages. They aren’t in fact real pages. At least in the physical state, it is in fact a facsimile. Which had me in thought today,...
O is for Opencode Recently picked up opencode go, which is a low cost subscription to try out some models like kimi k2. Its been a solid plan, as subscriptions go. At least it seems more sane than 200+ a month. In either case, its been...
N is for Nowhere One of the best places ive ever been was in the middle of nowhere. I have to say, if you’ve never been away from the cities, away from traffic, in a random out of the way place. Just west or east of a places with people,...
M is for Multitasking Its funny. A few years back, I read that a person couldn’t actually multitask. That it was infact just focusing on one thing and flipping to the next. That it wasnt healthy and that it was essentially feeding the...
L is for Lazy Every now and then I remember a conversation I had with an friend and old coworker. Where, at the time, I was going on about some framework or programming thing. He had mentioned that not only he didn’t like programming but...
J is for Justfile My coworker put me on to justfile a bit ago, and after wrestling with Makefiles for a few decades, its a nice upgrade. The justfile syntax is yaml with instructions that are in yaml for more credence towards earning my...
I is for interesting This article: https://nikola-breznjak.com/blog/devthink/productivity-paper-pomodoro-kanban-tracking-and-actually-showing-up/ which was a summary of the audio recording here: https://devth.ink/e002_productivity/ Since...