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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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 introduced. The plot is one that is easy to imagine and easy to...
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 Piranesi a delight. Fugue state aside. The internal monologue....
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 Shape Up https://basecamp.com/shapeup/0.3-chapter-01 the web of...
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 that can form and hold an empire. That and rail guns keeping...
Trying to follow along and get a build for hugo and for gemini working in github actions. nice
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 was, at this point, my investiment into the crew of the...
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 through a few of these expanse books, I knew that the crew...
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 into a junker spaceship and hurling themselves through a gate...
What an amazing article, wtg.
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 arcs are on a completely different level. From a war breaking...
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 prologue was really odd. That and the whiplash we get as we are...
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" status PSQL / RDS I didnt have a default database created, so...
Obsidian Currently Using Notes/Second Brain obsidian.md -> sourcehut -> all mobile devices
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. Lots and lots of pain. Including the fact id probably end up...
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 this might be a useful exercise. The main thing id like to...