Ben Borgers
Ben Borgers’ personal website.
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- 244 from 31 May 2021 to 6 Sep 2026
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- monthly (10 in the last year)
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- personal blog
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2026 7
2025 19
- Fall 2025
- Coding agents write 90% of my code now
- Don’t standardize your company’s coding agents yet
- I’ve been loving Claude Code on the Web
- My coding agent has ads now
- We put the lying machine into the correct answer website
- You should be able to run your dev server against your production database
- Don’t forget to set a minimum app version for your feature flags
- How Notion sees itself
- Should Cursor be taught in college?
- Calculating related posts on my blog using vector embeddings
- How I would have picked my classes, in retrospect
- Summer 2025
- The stickiest parking permits known to man
- Goodbye, Tufts
- Automatically graphing how busy office hours are
- The morning of graduation
- Make sure your university events are actually interesting
- Parking Tickets Wrapped 2024
2024 10
- Website redesign, December 2024
- Winter break project list [2024]
- FileCopy
- How ChatGPT spoiled my semester
- AI is an impediment to learning web development
- Donating forks to the dining hall
- Trip to Germany, spring 2024
- Tufts Meal Plan Wrapped
- Building an e-ink picture frame that displays an iCloud photo album
- 2023 in review
2023 18
- 5% of things go wrong
- Winter break project list
- How I got scammed on Facebook Marketplace
- Ben Forms
- Prototyping an AI-powered note-taking app
- JumboCode+
- What is JumboCode?
- Stickies: Spatial note-taking
- JumboCode plans for Head of Engineering
- The real reason for my multiple majors
- Learnings from JumboCode
- War Room: Expansion features
- War Room “Bib”
- War Room — using the native date picker
- Planning my week
- Majoring in more
- No Dessert Challenge
- Publishing my Fall 2022 class notes
2022 188
- Semester 3
- Website redesign, December 2022
- Brief: AI-summarized news
- Building henrynitzberg.com
- Optimizing Kiwi for scale
- New in Superadmin: styling, images, rich text
- “you have a lack of deadlines”
- Apple Credit Card Rewards
- Automatic Dark Mode Colors Don’t Work
- Why I Love Laravel
- Why I Love Tailwind CSS
- Bagel Institute
- IKEA Backpack
- Thumbs up for Six Flags
- One Year Ago Email
- First Name Usernames
- Productivity YouTubers
- Novel Food
- Three People Talking
- Driving School Corruption
- Bubble Tea Snobbery
- Basecamp Talks to You
- Professorship Bias
- Bronze, Silver, Gold
- Muted
- Reading with RSS
- Schmooze
- I’m a Sucker for the Brand
- 5 Pages a Day
- Late Night Sprints
- Pebble Presentation
- Things Go Downhill After We Leave
- Stories for College Applications
- Software Seems Resilient
- Dark Sky
- Are My Technical Posts Worth It?
- Customer Rewards Programs
- Habit Toddler
- Gerald R. Gill Papers
- Daily Habits
- The Web is a Superpower
- An Eye for Design
- How You Perceive the World
- Cheating on Field Notes
- Writing Tasks Down
- Your Feelings Are Not Unique
- Recording Screencasts
- Current Self and Going to Libraries
- Security Questions
- Class Council: “Brutally Honest”
- Girl Talk: All Day
- My Stress is an Inside Job
- Teaching Enthusiasm
- HEY’s Fun Names
- Punctuation
- Kid Money
- “21” by Patrick Roche
- Music at 20%
- Public Radio Stories
- Website Rewrite 2
- Hands Occupied
- Not Developer Enough
- School But Online
- Listserv
- Tmrw
- I Used All of My Meal Swipes!
- Sunk Cost Chinese
- Is Advice Flawed?
- Why Do I Care About Grades?
- Doubly Parasocial Relationships
- Strong Hobbies
- I Don’t Get Getir
- Charles’ Sandwiches
- Portal
- Getir Colors
- Draft Now, Publish Later
- Lessons Learned from Hanging Posters
- 3blue1brown.elk.sh
- I Miss Google Classroom
- On “Incrementally Correct Personal Websites”
- Reflection on Shutting Down Blocks
- Gerp
- Pictures as Memories
- Welcome to TikTok
- Google Won the Kids
- Bin System
- Stubborn Consistency [100 daily blog posts]
- Have Your Cake and Eat It Too
- Instagram’s Lifespan
- Twitter Not Found
- Batching
- RealMoji
- Hash Tables [explained for anyone]
- year 1
- The Day Should End at 3am
- Tufts & Change Makers
- The Content Machine
- Date Picker Details
- Pluto was 2006??
- The TikTok Peer Group
- Trash Bags in the Laundry Room
- Waking up Early
- How I Sent Texts for Assassins
- Elk
- The Cost of Building an Idea
- Website Like a Library
- Publishing Class Notes
- How /swipes Works
- Designing Posters for Humans
- CS 15: Data Structures
- Formulaic Classes
- 5 Weeks Left
- Half a Slice of Apple Pie
- Un-figure-out-able Software
- Covid Test Instructions
- Personal Software
- Do You Subvocalize?
- Read the Dang Thing Out Loud
- Web of Thoughts
- Preschooler > AI
- The Code That Keeps Me Alive
- iPad Impatience
- You Might Be Right, But Shut Up
- Thinking in Silence
- Did MCAS Matter?
- Pi
- The Land of Endless Socialization
- Best Type of Bathroom Lock
- Heart Reacts
- It Does Have to Be Every Day
- Tufts Meal Plans Are a Scam
- The Redemption Arc Is Coming
- Couch Guy
- Overwhelmed
- October 5th, 1582
- It's Fun to Do Things with Care
- r/AskReddit
- Am I a Gym Bro Now?
- App Identity
- Giving Out Chick-fil-A on a Schedule App
- 60 kHz
- Social Jealousy
- I Misjudged My Chinese Professor
- Understanding CalcYouLater Subconsciously
- A Sixth Sense for Errors
- A Design Improvement for Our Communal Showers
- Information Distribution
- It Doesn’t Have to Be Every Day
- My Guilt for Useless Things
- Cornflakes
- Gamelan Music
- Streaks Are Extremely Powerful
- Ben-Edit
- Work-Life Separation in College
- Website Rewrite
- Fancy Quotation Marks
- Meaningful Conversation
- 3:00 a.m. Radio
- Gimme Back My Headphones
- We’re All Powered by Electric Meat
- College CS Classes Are Tragically Dull
- I Keep Rewriting My Personal Website
- A Small Life Radius
- Mornings Set the Tone
- The Brain Can Observe Itself
- Locked Posts on Ghost
- Good Software Has a Clear Geography
- Everyone’s Asking for Tips Now
- There’s No Personal Space in College
- Is It Worth It to Be Passive Aggressive?
- I Run My Life on Reminders
- The Beginning of College Sucks
- My Office Makes Me Feel Stupid
- How Recurring Tasks in War Room Work
- I Love Email
- The Magic of the Common Room
- Why Do We Still Use Snapchat?
- Friday, January 21, 2022
- Thursday, January 20, 2022
- Wednesday, January 19, 2022
- Tuesday, January 18, 2022
- Monday, January 17, 2022
- An emoji picker epiphany
- Sunday, January 16, 2022
- I want to use all of my ridiculously many meal swipes
- Saturday, January 15, 2022
- Friday, January 14, 2022
- Thursday, January 13, 2022