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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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Hugo and AI Should be pretty easy, just toss a robots.txt into your static folder and toss the following into it User-agent: GPTBot Disallow: / User-agent: ChatGPT-User Disallow: / User-agent: CCBot Disallow: /
The hidden meetup Back in Febuary, I was going through some articles on social.coop a mastmastodon instance that describes itself as being A Fediverse instance for people interested in cooperative and collective projects.. As im likely to do, I have been slowly networking and checking out all the culture and...
The Stack (original) Going to use the following frontend: htmx backend: golang / fiber for the language and server fig for configuration clover for the database The Repo Going to have a publicly hosted repo over at github. Description of the project The project is just going to be a little pet project that I can...
The month started great, a dry January. Which of course meant a few nightmare induced nights from not drinking. Which is crazy to me, as I usually have a beer and two shots and call it a night. All I can think is its sugar withdrawal or some such. Anyway, I love dry January since it gives me some time to feel what...
This is a test of me adding mermaid.js to this blog flowchart TB c1-->a2 subgraph one a1-->a2 end subgraph two b1-->b2 end subgraph three c1-->c2 end one --> two three --> two two --> c2 mermaid.initialize({}); svg { max-height: 100%; }
For years ive struggled with keeping up with ideas. Growing them, expanding them and more importantly proving them out. Then, when coming to this website ive found it especially hard when it comes to figuring out what would be an interesting read. So I typically end up reading more on the subject of coming up with...
Fun and Fantasy NOFX: The Hepatitis Bathtub and Other Stories Personal Development second brain power of moments Shape Up https://basecamp.com/shapeup/0.3-chapter-01 the web of meaning the this Antifragile Stumbling on Happiness / Daniel Gilbert The Surrender Experiment / Michael Singer (better in audible) Way of...
Obsidian Plugins As an update Note Taking Apps I ended up biting the bullet and a now using obsidian sync. Just in terms of ease of mind. Totally worth the investment. So with that my current list is as follows [ "table-editor-obsidian", "templater-obsidian", "dataview", "cm-editor-syntax-highlight-obsidian",...
The way this book introduces its world is fantastic. It was a slow reveal behind the eyes of an artificial friend named Klara. Whose innocence and observations creates a truly delightful narrative. We start with Klara inside a store waiting to be purchased and interacting with other artificial friends. What struck...
On Implementing webmentions When going through the process of implementing webmentions I found the process to be a little challenging. However, I would imagine most of my issues were due to having a static site. Lucking, I found some really excellent examples of people who had set things up and also used hugo! So...
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