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
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 coding up any htmx examples or alpinejs or really much...
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, ive slowly been working on what I see as the pedigree of a...
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 Jujutsu Kaisen The Kindgoms of Ruin Taking the lead is Frieren,...
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 fun. The cats at the in-laws were having fun and the turkey...
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 startup and time doing its thing. A usual entry starts with 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 for jquery that seems like it may work. Like much of my...
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, but it was fun seeing them laughing at the absolutly...
Happy Thanksgiving. May the holidays officially begin!
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 visiting The Paranoid Times which had an article for using said...
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 today in meetings I lost my voice which is something im not...
Highlights Listening to the QAnon Anonymous Podcast - little intense but facinating. They have smaller podcasts as well that look interesting Relaxing night reading and listening to music A bath after a difficult workday, had a screaming...
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 make a bin directory mkdir bin Then lets add the .air.toml...
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 source tech called alfred which has a nice file search and...
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 it on weekends or late nights. So im hoping that this will...