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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.

Latest Posts

unikernel-and-wasm-part-2

bneil.me · 2y

In yesterdays post I laid out some of my experiences with unikernels and touched a little little bit on wasm technology. While also throwing some docker into the mix as well,...

unikernals-and-wasm

bneil.me · 2y

Much like many of us who got swept away from the fantastic world of docker, I have been interested in technology that built upon solaris zones or BSD jails for a long long time....

on-gitter

bneil.me · 2y

Back in the day, when I was daily using scala. I truly enjoyed the client ‘gitter’ for communicating to all the cool folks over in the scala ecosystem. So today I was having...

quote-from-frost

bneil.me · 2y

In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on. Robert Frost Feel like ive been spending more and more time focusing on quotes like this. Almost like...

weekly-writeup (week 2 of Nov 2023)

bneil.me · 2y

Highlights Listening to my mom work with my cousins on selling our grandparents old place (its time) Playing a game called ‘Concrete Genie’ My kiddo having her bday Finding a...

i-love-pomodoros-but-meetings

bneil.me · 2y

Of all the time management strategies that I apply on the daily is the pomodora technique. I think ive mentioned it in my other note articles on this blog but it really is a...

on-four-day-workweeks

bneil.me · 2y

Probably one of the more contentious discisions that I’ve had to deal with as a person with the ability to set culture at my startup, Compliable, was to support the four day...

on-slow-coding

bneil.me · 2y

When I say Psudocoding, what I mean, is a process of writing comments in place of an actual program to inform what the application/feature will be before the actual code is...

its-easier-said-than-done

bneil.me · 2y

I spent a long time thinking about what I should be writing for today and tomorrow. So this entry is just going to be a quote and a quick description of why it rings truth in...

great-secret-sharing-saas

bneil.me · 2y

Wanted to share a great SaaS secret sharing service I stumbled upon a few years back. https://scrt.link/, why: Really love the persons development attitude It works really well...

virtual-standups

bneil.me · 2y

A big sync of time, even in a relatively small startup is the daily standup for agile teams. Personally I’ve been in small standups, ive been in large standups. I’ve been in...

weekly-writeup (week 1 of Nov 2023)

bneil.me · 2y

Highlights got to try out a lime scooter for the first time watched more bicycle youtube videos then should be allowed my journal finally was completed for a year, so I can flip...

another-site-to-discover

bneil.me · 2y

Was over at jzhao.xya - really loved the site layout. But specifically was reading Networked Thought. As someone who has been trying to use hugo as a successful digital garden,...

more-from-the-depths

bneil.me · 2y

Things ive researched that were non work related today Found this article call MVC is dead, its time to MOVE on. Really liked the idea, even if a little dated from 2012. Just an...

what-i-searched-today

bneil.me · 2y

Today on domains I wish id bought sh.itjust.works buymea.beer Things ive researched that were non work related today Manifesting, is it bullshit? resulted in this article Had a...
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