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...

An underbaked GPT-Codex-5.3-Spark review

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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

Claude combines datadog and git history to fix a prod bug

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

GitHub - benborgers/opensheet: 💾 An API to get a Google Sheet as JSON, no authentication required.

💾 An API to get a Google Sheet as JSON, no authentication required. - GitHub - benborgers/opensheet: 💾 An API to get a Google Sheet as JSON, no authentication required.

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

Coding agents write 90% of my code now

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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

wrote a post about how Notion sees the world:

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

Should Cursor be taught in college?

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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

Ben Borgers@benborgers.com · 10mo ago

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

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

Ben Borgers@benborgers.com · 10mo ago

current design → work in progress

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

Ben Borgers@benborgers.com · 10mo ago

made 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