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.

Latest Posts

last-day-of-NaBloPoMo2023

bneil.me · 2y

Wrapping up NaBloPoMo2023 Doing thirty days of blog posts was a lot harder than I thought. The last couple days especially felt difficult, since I didn’t have time to continue...

as-a-cto-who-is-technical

bneil.me · 2y

small psa, this is a little ranty because I enjoy writing code and solving problems. I also enjoy teaching and leading engineers. So here comes my rant/opinion Over the years,...

current-anime-watching

bneil.me · 2y

Again, running low on ideas for one post per day, so today im going to rank the anime im watching on crunchyroll Top Tier Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End Shangri-La Frontier...

weekly-writeup

bneil.me · 2y

Highlights remembering to meditate taking a walk having a few street tacos Thanksgiving walking out of the super market and seeing a flock of birds Takeaways Thanksgiving was...

quote-myself

bneil.me · 2y

Bleh, another day of thinking about new things to write… oh, I said this today and thought it witty “its like beliving in unicorns or fat free bacon” takes bow

on-journaling

bneil.me · 2y

I journal every day. Its one of the few things that I have been able to keep up since last October. For me it was a way to get through some of the harsher realities of the...

more-alpine-fun

bneil.me · 2y

Started thinking that I wanted to have an explosion after someone signs up for an email. So I started researching how one would create an explosion. Found some code similar code...

took-a-day-off

bneil.me · 2y

Really was looking forward to today and I wasn’t disapointed. Had a great day with the kids and got them playing PaRappa the Rapper 2. I remember playing it way back in the day,...

thanksgiving-2023

bneil.me · 2y

Happy Thanksgiving. May the holidays officially begin!

on-gemini

bneil.me · 2y

The Gemini protocol is this neat gopher like protocol that lets me broadcast this blog like a good ol fashioned MUD. Its fantastic. Originally I found out about the idea, by...

how-did-today-go

bneil.me · 2y

Alright, ill admit it, my draft box for this challenge is running a little dry. So I’m going to phone it in today and just say that today was a challenge. I had to talk so much...

weekly-writeup

bneil.me · 2y

Highlights Listening to the QAnon Anonymous Podcast - little intense but facinating. They have smaller podcasts as well that look interesting Relaxing night reading and...

alpine-pt2

bneil.me · 2y

Continuing on, lets go ahead and add air because doing reloads is lame. Also going to add a makefile because I feel like those two go together like beer and skittles. First lets...

osx-spotlight-for-debian

bneil.me · 2y

Was putsing around on the debian 12 machine today and wanted to quickly find a program. Due to the start menu being so far away. After hunting online, I found this nifty open...

a-quick-alpine-page

bneil.me · 2y

Had a little bit of time today, so wanted to do a quick skeleton for golang that included htmx. My other project ‘optimal’ is going super slow, just because im only working on...
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