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