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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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O is for Opencode Recently picked up opencode go, which is a low cost subscription to try out some models like kimi k2. Its been a solid plan, as subscriptions go. At least it seems more sane than 200+ a month. In either case, its been fun trying the easy button. Also its been fun trying to create skills from CLI...
N is for Nowhere One of the best places ive ever been was in the middle of nowhere. I have to say, if you’ve never been away from the cities, away from traffic, in a random out of the way place. Just west or east of a places with people, you really can enjoy nowhere. I miss it some days, as im working to hard, or...
M is for Multitasking Its funny. A few years back, I read that a person couldn’t actually multitask. That it was infact just focusing on one thing and flipping to the next. That it wasnt healthy and that it was essentially feeding the same distraction brain rot that one could get from using social medias infinite...
L is for Lazy Every now and then I remember a conversation I had with an friend and old coworker. Where, at the time, I was going on about some framework or programming thing. He had mentioned that not only he didn’t like programming but that he was lazy. In that he found a way for a method to work and yeah, that...
J is for Justfile My coworker put me on to justfile a bit ago, and after wrestling with Makefiles for a few decades, its a nice upgrade. The justfile syntax is yaml with instructions that are in yaml for more credence towards earning my greatest title of ‘yaml developer’. Not the biggest fan of using more yaml, all...
I is for interesting This article: https://nikola-breznjak.com/blog/devthink/productivity-paper-pomodoro-kanban-tracking-and-actually-showing-up/ which was a summary of the audio recording here: https://devth.ink/e002_productivity/ Since I split my time daily between written notes and electronic ones. I found the...
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 that, regardless of why you do it, you want to do it well. Based on everything...
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 was haunted was the mirrors. My mom told me when we first moved in, when I was...
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 >_< C:\PHOTOS\SPRING2026\STEALING_APPLES.JPG
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 birthday. Or at least ive never known him to enjoy it. Same with Christmas and...
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