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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H is for Hobby Im back stealing topics from the main site! From them: Is blogging a full-time job for you? Something you do on the side, in addition to your full-time job? Or is it just a hobby,something you do for giggles? My guess is...
G is for Ghost I was convinced my parents old house was haunted. It was built in the early 1900s, had faded and peeling wallpaper. Dilapidation and general neglect for the past eighty or so years was abundant. But what made me think it...
F is for Frames Just some css fun collected from gists and adapted, feel free to grab and share. Resize your images though and don’t use the width property, lol Le Classic Frame Ornate Frame Win 3.1 Frame Photo Viewer >_<...
E is for Events I wanted to write a small bit about Events, mainly the ones we choose to celebrate and ones we choose ignore. This is a little personal, so if you want to skip to another article, id go to that now. My old man hates his...
D is for dream I know I said yesterday I wasn’t going to keep sniping the A to Z blogs word choice. But dang, ‘Dream’ is a great one especially when paired with the question of ‘What do I dream of’? I don’t dream of a collapse of...
C is for creativity I have been stealing the ideas for the daily prompts based off the categories provided with the A to Z challenge main blog. Which hasn’t been creative. Going to stop doing that going forward but its been nice to have...
B is for Brainstorming Have you got “hopes, dreams, and goals” for your blog? If not, why are you doing this? Im doing this because its a challenge. The warning from this post was that writing for writing sake can cause burnout, but im...
A is for Aspirations What are your blogging aspirations? For me blogging is a way to be creative. I don’t have many aspirations about it except to share tidbits about books ive read or techniques ive learned. Thats it. I was personally...
Past Challenges A collection of completed blogging challenges. Well so far one. lol. 50 Blog Posts in 50 Days My completed 50of50 challenge - 50 blog posts written in ~50 days following prompts from Lou Plummer’s list. “Some are deep...
The A to Z Challenge I signed up for the April Blogging from A to Z Challenge! The challenge is simple: blog every day in April, with each day corresponding to a letter of the alphabet. The theme this year is “Aspirations: Blogging...
The A to Z Challenge I signed up for the April Blogging from A to Z Challenge! The challenge is simple: blog every day in April, with each day corresponding to a letter of the alphabet. The theme this year is “Aspirations: Blogging...
Red Rising; Thoughts on the Society I recently finished reading through the full Red Rising series, completing Light Bringer just a few days ago. After sitting with all of these wonderful books, I wanted to dig into some of the bigger...
Agree as well, regardless of if you’re having LLMs help with coding or writing. It’s your word/voice your putting out there. So you better be able to back it up. — in response to On Using AI in Blogging
Day 50, Write about a news event from when you were still in school and how it made you feel. News events in the 90s were a little different than now. You didn’t learn about them until you got home and turned on the news. Which is kinda...
Day 49: Do you have a set of rules or guidelines for your life? Did you write them? Why do you use them? I don’t usually bring up my belief system, but since that’s the point of this prompt, I’ll share. I identify as a Humanist because...