Ben Borgers @benborgers.com · 19/04/2026building a “new tab” page to surface old twitter bookmarks + saved articles 020
Ben Borgers @benborgers.com · 05/04/2026I made an ICS feed of events happening at Fenway Park so I know when traffic’s gonna be bad 000
Ben Borgers @benborgers.com · 19/03/2026Journal entry from November 22, 2022 (8 days before ChatGPT’s initial release) 000
Ben Borgers @benborgers.com · 12/02/2026Finally caved, bought a Mac Mini this weekend and built a mini OpenClaw clone on top of Claude Code + tmux 030
Ben Borgers @benborgers.com · 12/02/2026Claude combines datadog and git history to fix a prod bug 110
Ben Borgers @benborgers.com · 12/02/2026Asked Claude to continuously quiz me on a class - it unexpectedly built a little spaced repetition engine that fires questions every 2 hours 010
Ben Borgers @benborgers.com · 30/01/2026Having Claude redesign websites in early 37signals/Ruby on Rails aesthetic 020
Ben Borgers @benborgers.com · 19/12/2025Before coding agents, I probably wouldn’t have taken screenshots of a component in all 8 of its states before and after a PR to verify nothing accidentally changed. Now, I can teach the agent to take iOS Simulator screenshots and do it for me! 020
Ben Borgers @benborgers.com · 19/12/2025I attach a lot of cleanshot.com screen recordings to pull requests. I just built a CLI that takes a the screen recording URL from the clipboard and turns it into a visual thumbnail, ready to paste into GitHub: 010
Ben Borgers @benborgers.com · 26/10/2025inspired by Claude Code for Web — hacking together a way of spinning up multiple ampcode.com background agents that run inside @vercel.com sandboxes 010
Ben Borgers @benborgers.com · 08/10/2025regretfully, building a custom CMS for my blog was not necessary. I checked back in on keystatic.com and they've fixed some of my biggest gripes — it feels quite nice now 110
Ben Borgers @benborgers.com · 07/10/2025over the weekend, I built a small cms for the blog on my website. everything gets committed back to git as markdown files 030
Ben Borgers @benborgers.com · 03/10/2025playing with a new design for my personal website (as always) 010
Ben Borgers @benborgers.com · 01/10/2025Action Button shortcut to either save to my to-do list or Notion instantly 020
Ben Borgers @benborgers.com · 30/09/2025this copy-pastable snippet in Notion Calendar is worded so elegantly with the meeting link. literally one of my favorite features of the app 010
Ben Borgers @benborgers.com · 28/09/2025I forked my photo of the day website (photos.ben.page) for my mom and now she’s memorized the git commands necessary to push new photos to her site 010
Ben Borgers @benborgers.com · 22/09/2025woke up to a $135 Cloudflare bill for github.com/benborgers/... — now at ~500,000,000 requests/month 🫠 spun up a D1 database to count requests per Google Sheet ID per hour, so I can figure out who the biggest users are 010
Ben Borgers @benborgers.com · 20/09/2025ever since Redis rebranded I can only see it as a gentrified food brand 010
Ben Borgers @benborgers.com · 18/09/2025animation when you try to download the lower quality optimized image (right-click/drag) 120
Ben Borgers @benborgers.com · 09/09/2025I built a pipeline for making exam prep questions: 1️⃣ take a long PDF 2️⃣ feed it into the Anthropic API (which can “see” PDFs) to summarize each slide in detail 3️⃣ turn each slide’s description into a dozen questions 4️⃣ use a smaller Anthropic model to score the student’s answer 010
Ben Borgers @benborgers.com · 09/09/2025built a little app to help my girlfriend study for a dental school exam 010
Ben Borgers @benborgers.com · 08/09/2025Anki (the flashcards app) is proof that, if your product is useful enough, you can ship it in a garbage package of terminal-based launchers and inscrutable UI and still be wildly successful 020
Ben Borgers @benborgers.com · 04/09/2025dumped a sketchy pre-paid mastercard from my wifi provider into ampcode.com because they blocked Venmo and Amazon 010
Ben Borgers @benborgers.com · 02/09/2025you graduate college and 3 months later they’re calling you “Mr. Borgers” 👴 010
Ben Borgers @benborgers.com · 01/09/2025Stickies, a spacial note-taking app I prototyped a few years ago: 010
Ben Borgers @benborgers.com · 30/08/2025I built a bot that emails past years’ journal entries to me every morning 020
Ben Borgers @benborgers.com · 24/08/2025After 4 years (!!) of using a hand-rolled DIY password manager, @jeromepaulos.com has convinced me to switch to 1Password 020
Ben Borgers @benborgers.com · 24/08/2025If you write down cafe bathroom codes in @notion.com, you can use Notion AI to recall them next time 010
Ben Borgers @benborgers.com · 17/08/2025Been using @uselumen.com (by @colebemis.com) which is a nifty note-taking app that saves to a GitHub repo. Since my notes are just in a git repo, I created a small CLI so that Claude Code can read and write my notes too: 020
Ben Borgers @benborgers.com · 16/08/2025Airtagging my car is maybe the smartest thing I’ve done to compensate for having bad memory 020
Ben Borgers @benborgers.com · 14/08/2025Analyzing data for a 1-week-long dating app I built for Tufts • When you “like” someone, what % of the time do you match? • What times of day are more active? 020
Ben Borgers @benborgers.com · 08/08/2025the new ChatGPT background effect: a big exported image (called “burrito-nux” for some reason) with 50% opacity and blur-2xl 130
Ben Borgers @benborgers.com · 04/08/2025another game I built for my club this past semester was “tuftsguessr”: a team-based geoguessr with photos I took around tufts university 010
Ben Borgers @benborgers.com · 31/07/2025me hiding the wifi-sniffing raspberry pi’s to make this work 041
Ben Borgers @benborgers.com · 30/07/2025“is tufts busy?” used hidden raspberry pi’s to intercept wifi probe requests and estimate how busy university buildings were built with @bighead.bsky.social, dan, and alex @ jumbohack in february 251
Ben Borgers @benborgers.com · 29/07/2025to my great surprise, one of my first full-stack web apps ever is still going strong after 5 years it was built for an online school in my hometown. my terrible code has processed probably high 6-figures in total payments 130
Ben Borgers @benborgers.com · 27/07/2025best things about @notionhq’s office last summer that I would steal: • soft jazz playing 24/7 — so you can talk without feeling like you’re interrupting the silence • dedicated lunch area with benches — everyone eats together, not at their desks, and chats 030
