Ben Borgers

stayed up til 5am recreating tuple.app using Fable

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

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

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

Building a mini viewer for diffs

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

building another CMS for myself

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

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

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

github.com/benborgers/... did 1.6 billion requests last month, which is very cool and also produces an astronomical Cloudflare bill

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

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!

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:

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

I have a disease

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

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

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

a little more tinkering

current design → work in progress

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

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

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

got a poster

made a poster

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

now a proud owner of the 1984 Macintosh Manual

dumped a sketchy pre-paid mastercard from my wifi provider into ampcode.com because they blocked Venmo and Amazon

you graduate college and 3 months later they’re calling you “Mr. Borgers” 👴

print your Linear tickets for the vibes

Stickies, a spacial note-taking app I prototyped a few years ago:

I built a bot that emails past years’ journal entries to me every morning

After 4 years (!!) of using a hand-rolled DIY password manager, @jeromepaulos.com has convinced me to switch to 1Password

If you write down cafe bathroom codes in @notion.com, you can use Notion AI to recall them next time

“new deck” pop-up

Been 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: