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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Day 8, What is the funniest book or TV show with which you are familiar? Recently I recommended Calvin and Hobbes. Once again would recommend that and Minus, from beats by kiwi. Outside of that the most recent book I read that had me...
Day 7: Do you have any unpopular opinions or dislike something that many people like? I believe birthdays should have been for pie and not cake. That most meetings could be a blog article in a wiki. That people complain about the things...
Day 6, What is or was your relationship with people from your parent’s generation? When I was younger I thought it was pretty good. But I’ll be honest, once I’d moved away from the parents twenty years back, the times I’ve worked with...
Day 5: What is the most memorable job you’ve held? Easy enough. My most memorable job was one my father gave me in the summer of 1996. I was presented with a few tons of sand/dirt that had been moved from a sewer trench – not exactly the...
Day 4, What woman in your family do you most admire and why? Thankfully, I’ve had a number of remarkable women in my life that I could look up to and admire. But, if I had to name one in particular, I’d say that I deeply admire my mom....
Day 3, Why do you like your favorite restaurant? The easy answer would be the food. But if I was to dig a little deeper, its the feeling of space combined with good cheer. I like the fact that I can spend time with my family over a meal...
Day 2, On what subjects are you outspoken and on what subjects are you mostly mute? Kinda surprised this would be the start of day two’s questions. So lets get into it. I am outspoken mostly topics of biking infrastructure and the need...
Introduction So when I was looking through some rss tech, I stumbled upon the website blogroll and after clicking a few links, I found a fun blogging challenge called 50 blog posts in 50 days, that had been completed by forking mad. This...
Building a web scrapper… You know what’s fascinating about building a web scraping solution? It’s not just about extracting data - its about abusing local resources on your laptop to crawl information and make you mcp client of choice do...
From Flat File to PouchDB: A Little Database Upgrade Since the MCP Protocol has been getting alot of traction online recently. I thought id take a stab at making my own mcp server. Given that one of the first things I ran into was...
spoilers Jacqueline Harpman attempt to make me depressed. It worked. …. wow, really haunting view of a wtf of a start to a plot. The thing that I really enjoyed from the story as a whole was the skinner box nature of the child within....
spoilers Blake Crouch’s sliders esk “Recursion” novel takes readers on a journey through memory, time, and the very fabric of reality. The novel follows NYC cop Barry Sutton and neuroscientist Helena Smith as they grapple with a...
spoilers Blake Crouch’s really fun take on multiworld theory. The novel follows the poor professor Jason Dessen as he comes off a cracking win of a datenight into a horror show of a plot twist. Something not quite right about a guy who...
As a developer with close to twenty years of experience, I’ve been asked to estimate work time and again. The primary method for estimation has been using Agile methodologies, which most in the tech industry understand all too well. You...
Pocketbase So I didn’t see a golang sdk for hooking up oauth for pocketbase, so I hammered out this based on example sdk’s. A big help was the built in documentation in the user collection in pocketbase. type OAuthProvider string // type...