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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.
September 2026
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Had a little bit of time today, so wanted to do a quick skeleton for golang that included htmx. My other project ‘optimal’ is going super slow, just because im only working on it on weekends or late nights. So im hoping that this will just be a little more focused and I can share some code AND get a free blog...
In yesterdays post I laid out some of my experiences with unikernels and touched a little little bit on wasm technology. While also throwing some docker into the mix as well, because why not. Im trying to reflect on basically ten years of technologies in those spaces between 2010 and 2020. Then trying laying out...
Much like many of us who got swept away from the fantastic world of docker, I have been interested in technology that built upon solaris zones or BSD jails for a long long time. Even when VM’s (virtual machines) became popular, its always been a fascinating way to carve out a box and serve applications securely. To...
Back in the day, when I was daily using scala. I truly enjoyed the client ‘gitter’ for communicating to all the cool folks over in the scala ecosystem. So today I was having some nostalgia for my old friends and decided to fire up my old client. Rather than being greeted with the usual rooms, turns out it was...
In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on. Robert Frost Feel like ive been spending more and more time focusing on quotes like this. Almost like a koans, I find sitting with it, I find an understanding that no matter what the world goes on. Its a humbling and wonderful thought.
Highlights Listening to my mom work with my cousins on selling our grandparents old place (its time) Playing a game called ‘Concrete Genie’ My kiddo having her bday Finding a poem the kids wrote me when they were younger Having a moment to drink a beer with my wife and catch up after a long day Takeaways It’s been a...
Of all the time management strategies that I apply on the daily is the pomodora technique. I think ive mentioned it in my other note articles on this blog but it really is a cornerstone of my daily routine. Well that is until a meeting happens. So this is more of a quick article on how to continue using a pomodora...
Probably one of the more contentious discisions that I’ve had to deal with as a person with the ability to set culture at my startup, Compliable, was to support the four day work week. Which, is to say, our variant - where you pay for the full forty hours and only enforce thirty two total hours of actual work. This...
When I say Psudocoding, what I mean, is a process of writing comments in place of an actual program to inform what the application/feature will be before the actual code is written. This can include a process of journaling and mock code in comments, writing in a notebook designs and consideration and even writing...
I spent a long time thinking about what I should be writing for today and tomorrow. So this entry is just going to be a quote and a quick description of why it rings truth in me. The Quote: “Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.” ~ Carl Yung Why it matters: So often,...
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