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.
September 2026
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Another store getting migrated Today’s pivotal tasks are all related towards moving things away from redis and into dynamo. So far ive gotten the underpinnings done by creating a dynamo store The main struct looks like this type DynamoStore struct { tableName string primaryKey string store *dynamodb.DynamoDB } The...
Hugo for note taking I’m wondering if using Hugo for writing notes would even be applicable to my current work flows. Right now I usually just use Evernote, but then I never really go into Evernote and re-review all the things ive noted. I keep feeling like there has to be a way to manage GTD, alongside tools that...
Webmentions So as I journey through the fun webmentions, it looks like since im just using github pages, I would migrate over to using cloudflare so I could play more with webworkers. My last attempt was that Danny Devito Quote generator that I believe was working fairly well. Although, having said that it really...
Whats going on? It all started with finding a webring. I hadnt seen one since the mid 90’s and the accidental stumbling upon one was almost magical. If you’ve never had the pleasure, a web ring was this piece of tech that was largely social. It was a way of finding genres of websites you were interested in and daisy...
Publications Recently (well in 2016) I co-authored a book called Professional Scala, it was an exciting experience and I really enjoyed the feedback from the scala community. Other Blogs Developer Death March - A blog about developer horror stories and funny content Things in progress Go checkout my NOW page, it has...
Last Updated: Nov 4, 2025 Its the start of November, lots of leaves on the ground. Been enjoying the colder weather. The time change has been pretty good this year. Horrible for walking after work but great for taking the dog out and seeing the sunrise. latest picture i put on pixelfeed Reading The Measure Thinking...
The Mystery I was reading through the docker documentation for docker registry and ran into this curious idea of nondistributable artifacts and how that related to some layers that are proprietary. Which got me thinking about how I could setup my own non distributable layers. So looking into...
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