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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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, because why not. Im trying to reflect on basically ten years...
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. Even when VM’s (virtual machines) became popular, its...
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 some nostalgia for my old friends and decided to fire up my old...
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 a koans, I find sitting with it, I find an understanding...
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 poem the kids wrote me when they were younger Having a moment...
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 cornerstone of my daily routine. Well that is until a meeting...
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 work week. Which, is to say, our variant - where you pay for...
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 written. This can include a process of journaling and mock code...
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 me. The Quote: “Everything that irritates us about others can...
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 for sharing on time secrets (rather then sending in anyplace...
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 remote 5am standups and ive been in afternoon, butt in seat...
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 back and forth now to last year at this time! may end up...
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, im impressed. Going to keep on keep’n on.
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 interesting read and I needed something for the days blog…
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 recommendation from a friend to watch Mel Robbins: This One...