bneil.me
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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.
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On firebase, pocket base, etc To answer the age-old question: why would someone use a backend-as-a-service like PocketBase, Firebase or Supabase? Well, that was one of the...
Another Sunday, which means another great day to try out a new language. Today, as the day would have it, im going to be installing and trying out this language called...
OpenTofu and GCP Functions Had a few minutes so thought id see how to deploy a function using open tofu. for this example, please use the alias alias tf='tofu' The directories...
Creating a quick lookup of this months articles One thing I like to have in my workbench is a nice list of articles ive been updating I do that via this script in dataview: LIST...
Description enable this: git config --global merge.conflictstyle diff3 git config output: [diff] tool = meld [difftool] prompt = false [difftool "meld"] trustExitCode = true cmd...
Description Was using tmux dracula, and really wanted a little margin between the bottom of the prompt and where the tmux status line was. Found a few pages and put this...
TL;DR If the purpose of AI is to become a programmers best friend, shouldn’t we address a few issues in open source funding first? When I was first coming up in programming, it...
Recently, I wrote about an article on gut feelings and wanted to talk about things that ive been looking at that for some reason really resonate with me in terms of excitement....
I’m feeling stressed, so I thought building a little toy project might make me feel better Setup Go ahead and install rust, via rustup. Then grab cargo-generate. Once those are...
Reaching Out but Hitting Dead Ends This week in trying to drum up work, I’ve been focused on expanding my client base. It’s been a bit of a rollercoaster ride - some promising...
I’ve used the context package alot with basically little thought, so I figured it would be helpful to have a few notes on the use and reason behind it for later reference. So...
Trusting Your Gut: The Key to Fulfilling Work or how to stop attending meetings that make you feel sick Have you ever found yourself dreading a meeting, only to leave it feeling...
The last month, April 2024, has been a sobering time of calling friends, reaching out, networking, and generally trying to find some space and some security. While not all of my...
Got started on this book from a recommendation from my wife and wasn’t disappointed. Devil in the white city by Erik Larson goes into two pivotal events of the early twentieth...
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