Ben Borgers

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Posts

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

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

Tufts Meal Plan Wrapped

Building an e-ink picture frame that displays an iCloud photo album

2023 in review

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

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

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

“21” by Patrick Roche

I Used All of My Meal Swipes!

Sunk Cost Chinese

Is Advice Flawed?

Why Do I Care About Grades?

Doubly Parasocial Relationships

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

Stubborn Consistency [100 daily blog posts]

Have Your Cake and Eat It Too

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.sh

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?

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

War Room

Blocks recap