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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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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 society, I want a refocus. Suburbia collapsing from mc mansions into dome houses. Tool...
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 a break in thinking up words to write about. So in the spirit of creativity, I...
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 not sure. Not writing causes burnout as well. Those thoughts and words never find...
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 inspired by people who learned and wrote in the open and even if this blog only...
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 dives, some are quick thoughts, and some are just me rambling about whatever the...
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 hopes, dreams, and goals” The Complete A-to-Z Collection Here’s every post I’ll write...
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 hopes, dreams, and goals” The Complete A-to-Z Collection Here’s every post I’ll write...
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 topics the series raised for me. I’ll try not to post spoilers, but that’s hard to...
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 slow. Probably the one event that impacted me the most, dating me a little, was...
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