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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.

September 2026

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Never break the party It’s been really interesting in other expanse novels, the close releationships. The comradery. Then here, you see people. People that want to reconnect. It was, at this point, my investiment into the crew of the Rocinate was tested. I didn’t want these characters to leave. To explore their own...
He reaches out Sometimes I read a book and I start laughing at just how bad things keep getting regardless of the beste intentions of the characters in the book. Having now gone through a few of these expanse books, I knew that the crew of the Rocinante, were going to see wild things in the through the gates. But I...
I’m burning through these books and this one was no different. Maybe it’s the instant draw. To characters whose only hope of kindling a romantic hookup is belting themselves into a junker spaceship and hurling themselves through a gate built from the reconstituted remains of Venus. But damn. The flair seems so...
What an amazing article, wtg.
I couldn’t put this title down from page one. Where in Leviathans Wake I was impressed by the world building and just wild adventure, in caliban’s war the character and story arcs are on a completely different level. From a war breaking out in the solar systems only bread basket too running full throttle towards a...
Really great world building, interesting plot and just enough tension to really feel like an adventure. I was a little confused when reading this book at first since the prologue was really odd. That and the whiplash we get as we are first getting introduced into the world that James Corey paints for us. For me my...
Goose Since goose uses pq under the hood, to hit remote urls goose postgres "user=postgres password=${PROD_PGPASS} dbname=test sslmode=disable host=database.rds.amazonaws.com" status PSQL / RDS I didnt have a default database created, so I needed to psql into it - summoning psql via docker container docker run -it...
Obsidian Currently Using Notes/Second Brain obsidian.md -> sourcehut -> all mobile devices
Audit Service or Round 2 Fight Description When I started to think more critically about how interactions would work inside dynamodb for auditing I quickly learned about pain. Lots and lots of pain. Including the fact id probably end up having to use dynamodb streams and couple that with elasticsearch. So im not...
Audit Service Description Decided that I wanted an audit db and service to help keep track of user behaviors. Since I already have some in Redis, and some in Postgres I thought this might be a useful exercise. The main thing id like to accomplish with this code is going to be a way to track events and break them...
Dynamo code snippet Recently got burned because we needed to do a recursive paging through dynamo var listOfThings []Whatever err := store.ScanPages(input, func (page *dynamodb.ScanOutput, lastPage bool) bool { for _, item := range page.Items { var whateva Whatever if val, ok := item["jval"]; ok { err :=...
No Man Sky Used to play the game a few years back and am starting to get back into it. Whats Great Been really enjoying getting back into the game. After a few hours I even got to see a sand worm comes flying out of the ground. I was so used to just being bored going from world to procedurally generated world that...

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