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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How Rory Thorne Destroyed the Multiverse

bneil.me · 4y

I’m a sucker for good dialogue. Thankfully this book delivers that in bountiful helpings. Whether it’s a fairies gift or the divine. very human. multiverse to which we are...

Piranesi

bneil.me · 4y

Really weird but really neat book. A book in which the protagonist and environment, were constant highlights. The supernatural gift of navigating the maze of rooms, makes...

Books Read in 2022

bneil.me · 4y

Selfhelp Book - Atomic Habits Book - Little Habits Book -Designing Your Life Book - Willpower Book - Obfuscation Book - Thinking fast and slow] second brain power of moments...

Babylon's Ashes

bneil.me · 4y

Legacies and Strategies The free navy. Finally given some room to govern, falls. It was a wonderful exposition into how a careful story. Well crafted. Can create a narrative...

First Post

bneil.me · 4y

Trying to follow along and get a build for hugo and for gemini working in github actions. nice

Nemesis Games

bneil.me · 4y

Never break the party It’s been really interesting in other expanse novels, the close releationships. The comradery. Then here, you see people. People that want to reconnect. It...

Cibola Burn

bneil.me · 4y

He reaches out Sometimes I read a book and I start laughing at just how bad things keep getting regardless of the beste intentions of the characters in the book. Having now gone...

Abaddons Gate

bneil.me · 4y

I’m burning through these books and this one was no different. Maybe it’s the instant draw. To characters whose only hope of kindling a romantic hookup is belting themselves...

test

bneil.me · 4y

What an amazing article, wtg.

Calibans War

bneil.me · 4y

I couldn’t put this title down from page one. Where in Leviathans Wake I was impressed by the world building and just wild adventure, in caliban’s war the character and story...

Leviathan Wakes

bneil.me · 4y

Really great world building, interesting plot and just enough tension to really feel like an adventure. I was a little confused when reading this book at first since the...

Connecting/Migrations in RDS

bneil.me · 4y

Goose Since goose uses pq under the hood, to hit remote urls goose postgres "user=postgres password=${PROD_PGPASS} dbname=test sslmode=disable host=database.rds.amazonaws.com"...

Note taking apps

bneil.me · 4y

Obsidian Currently Using Notes/Second Brain obsidian.md -> sourcehut -> all mobile devices

Audit Service - RDS

bneil.me · 4y

Audit Service or Round 2 Fight Description When I started to think more critically about how interactions would work inside dynamodb for auditing I quickly learned about pain....

Audit Service - Dynamodb

bneil.me · 4y

Audit Service Description Decided that I wanted an audit db and service to help keep track of user behaviors. Since I already have some in Redis, and some in Postgres I thought...
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