iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Ben Borgers @benborgers.com · 15/08/2026

stayed up til 5am recreating tuple.app using Fable

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Ben Borgers @benborgers.com · 19/04/2026

building a “new tab” page to surface old twitter bookmarks + saved articles

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Ben Borgers @benborgers.com · 05/04/2026

I made an ICS feed of events happening at Fenway Park so I know when traffic’s gonna be bad

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Ben Borgers @benborgers.com · 19/03/2026

Journal entry from November 22, 2022 (8 days before ChatGPT’s initial release)

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Ben Borgers @benborgers.com · 23/02/2026

Building a mini viewer for diffs

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Ben Borgers @benborgers.com · 14/02/2026

new post: testing out gpt-5.3-codex-spark ✨ ben.page/gpt-5-3-cod...

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An underbaked GPT-Codex-5.3-Spark review

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Ben Borgers @benborgers.com · 14/02/2026

building another CMS for myself

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Ben Borgers @benborgers.com · 12/02/2026

Finally caved, bought a Mac Mini this weekend and built a mini OpenClaw clone on top of Claude Code + tmux

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Ben Borgers @benborgers.com · 12/02/2026

Kicked off via voice message while I was on a walk

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Ben Borgers @benborgers.com · 12/02/2026

Claude combines datadog and git history to fix a prod bug

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Ben Borgers @benborgers.com · 12/02/2026

Asked Claude to continuously quiz me on a class - it unexpectedly built a little spaced repetition engine that fires questions every 2 hours

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Ben Borgers @benborgers.com · 30/01/2026

Having Claude redesign websites in early 37signals/Ruby on Rails aesthetic

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Ben Borgers @benborgers.com · 19/12/2025

new post: Coding agents write 90% of my code now ben.page/agents-write

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Coding agents write 90% of my code now

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Ben Borgers @benborgers.com · 19/12/2025

Before 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!

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Ben Borgers @benborgers.com · 19/12/2025

I 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:

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Ben Borgers @benborgers.com · 09/12/2025

I've used Hugo once or twice in the past! Unfortunately my brain is very JavaScripty so Astro hits the spot for me

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Ben Borgers @benborgers.com · 26/10/2025

inspired by Claude Code for Web — hacking together a way of spinning up multiple ampcode.com background agents that run inside @vercel.com sandboxes

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Ben Borgers @benborgers.com · 10/10/2025

wrote a post about how Notion sees the world:

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Ben Borgers @benborgers.com · 09/10/2025

New post: Should Cursor be taught in college? ben.page/cursor-college

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Should Cursor be taught in college?

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Ben Borgers @benborgers.com · 08/10/2025

regretfully, 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

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Ben Borgers @benborgers.com · 07/10/2025

over the weekend, I built a small cms for the blog on my website. everything gets committed back to git as markdown files

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Ben Borgers @benborgers.com · 03/10/2025

current design → work in progress

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Ben Borgers @benborgers.com · 03/10/2025

playing with a new design for my personal website (as always)

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Ben Borgers @benborgers.com · 01/10/2025

Action Button shortcut to either save to my to-do list or Notion instantly

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Ben Borgers @benborgers.com · 30/09/2025

this copy-pastable snippet in Notion Calendar is worded so elegantly with the meeting link. literally one of my favorite features of the app

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Reposted by Ben Borgers

Jerome Paulos @jeromepaulos.com · 29/09/2025

got a poster

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Ben Borgers @benborgers.com · 28/09/2025

I 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

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Ben Borgers @benborgers.com · 22/09/2025

woke 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

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Ben Borgers @benborgers.com · 20/09/2025

ever since Redis rebranded I can only see it as a gentrified food brand

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Ben Borgers @benborgers.com · 18/09/2025

the optimal UX here is probably not to use an optimized image at all on this page, or to load the full-quality version intelligently on right-click but the animation was fun to build

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Ben Borgers @benborgers.com · 18/09/2025

animation when you try to download the lower quality optimized image (right-click/drag)

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Ben Borgers @benborgers.com · 16/09/2025

recently, it feels like LLMs either one-shot the code I want (saving me 5x the time!) or *almost* one-shot what I want, leading me to burn 5x the time trying to get it right before giving up and writing it myself

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Ben Borgers @benborgers.com · 09/09/2025

I 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

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Ben Borgers @benborgers.com · 09/09/2025

built a little app to help my girlfriend study for a dental school exam

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Ben Borgers @benborgers.com · 08/09/2025

Anki (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