Ben Borgers

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War Room — using the native date picker

February 13, 2023

War Room “Bib”

February 12, 2023

Planning my week

January 16, 2023

Majoring in more

January 8, 2023

No Dessert Challenge

January 7, 2023

Publishing my Fall 2022 class notes

January 4, 2023

Semester 3

December 31, 2022

Website redesign, December 2022

December 27, 2022

Brief: AI-summarized news

December 4, 2022

Building henrynitzberg.com

December 1, 2022

Optimizing Kiwi for scale

November 26, 2022

New in Superadmin: styling, images, rich text

November 23, 2022

“you have a lack of deadlines”

July 11, 2022

Apple Credit Card Rewards

July 10, 2022

Automatic Dark Mode Colors Don’t Work

July 9, 2022

Why I Love Laravel

July 8, 2022

Why I Love Tailwind CSS

July 7, 2022

Bagel Institute

July 6, 2022

IKEA Backpack

July 5, 2022

Thumbs up for Six Flags

July 4, 2022

One Year Ago Email

July 3, 2022

First Name Usernames

July 2, 2022

Productivity YouTubers

July 1, 2022

Novel Food

June 30, 2022

Three People Talking

June 29, 2022

Driving School Corruption

June 28, 2022

Bubble Tea Snobbery

June 27, 2022

Basecamp Talks to You

June 26, 2022

Professorship Bias

June 25, 2022

Bronze, Silver, Gold

June 24, 2022

Muted

June 23, 2022

Reading with RSS

June 22, 2022

Schmooze

June 21, 2022

I’m a Sucker for the Brand

June 20, 2022

5 Pages a Day

June 19, 2022

Late Night Sprints

June 18, 2022

Pebble Presentation

June 17, 2022

Things Go Downhill After We Leave

June 16, 2022

Stories for College Applications

June 15, 2022

Software Seems Resilient

June 14, 2022

Dark Sky

June 13, 2022

Are My Technical Posts Worth It?

June 12, 2022

Customer Rewards Programs

June 11, 2022

Habit Toddler

June 10, 2022

Gerald R. Gill Papers

June 9, 2022

Daily Habits

June 8, 2022

The Web is a Superpower

June 7, 2022

An Eye for Design

June 6, 2022

How You Perceive the World

June 5, 2022

Cheating on Field Notes

June 4, 2022

Writing Tasks Down

June 3, 2022

Your Feelings Are Not Unique

June 2, 2022

Recording Screencasts

June 1, 2022

Current Self and Going to Libraries

May 31, 2022

Security Questions

May 30, 2022

Class Council: “Brutally Honest”

May 29, 2022

Girl Talk: All Day

May 28, 2022

My Stress is an Inside Job

May 27, 2022

Teaching Enthusiasm

May 26, 2022

HEY’s Fun Names

May 25, 2022

Punctuation

May 24, 2022

Kid Money

May 23, 2022

“21” by Patrick Roche

May 22, 2022

Music at 20%

May 21, 2022

Public Radio Stories

May 20, 2022

Website Rewrite 2

May 19, 2022

Hands Occupied

May 18, 2022

Not Developer Enough

May 17, 2022

School But Online

May 16, 2022

Listserv

May 15, 2022

tmrw

May 14, 2022

I Used All of My Meal Swipes!

May 13, 2022

Sunk Cost Chinese

May 12, 2022

Is Advice Flawed?

May 11, 2022

Why Do I Care About Grades?

May 10, 2022

Doubly Parasocial Relationships

May 9, 2022

Strong Hobbies

May 8, 2022

I Don’t Get Getir

May 7, 2022

Charles’ Sandwiches

May 6, 2022

Portal

May 5, 2022

Getir Colors

May 4, 2022

Draft Now, Publish Later

May 3, 2022

Lessons Learned from Hanging Posters

May 2, 2022

3blue1brown.elk.sh

May 1, 2022

I Miss Google Classroom

April 30, 2022

On “Incrementally Correct Personal Websites”

April 29, 2022

Reflection on Shutting Down Blocks

April 28, 2022

gerp

April 27, 2022

Pictures as Memories

April 26, 2022

Welcome to TikTok

April 25, 2022

Google Won the Kids

April 24, 2022

Bin System

April 23, 2022

Stubborn Consistency [100 daily blog posts]

April 22, 2022

Have Your Cake and Eat It Too

April 21, 2022

Instagram’s Lifespan

April 20, 2022

Twitter Not Found

April 19, 2022

Batching

April 18, 2022

RealMoji

April 17, 2022

Hash Tables [explained for anyone]

April 16, 2022

year 1

April 15, 2022

The Day Should End at 3am

April 14, 2022

Tufts & Change Makers

April 13, 2022

The Content Machine

April 12, 2022

Date Picker Details

April 11, 2022

Pluto was 2006??

April 10, 2022

The TikTok Peer Group

April 9, 2022

Trash Bags in the Laundry Room

April 8, 2022

Waking up Early

April 7, 2022

How I Sent Texts for Assassins

April 6, 2022

elk.sh

April 5, 2022

The Cost of Building an Idea

April 4, 2022

Website Like a Library

April 3, 2022

Publishing Class Notes

April 2, 2022

How /swipes Works

April 1, 2022

Designing Posters for Humans

March 31, 2022

CS 15: Data Structures

March 30, 2022

Formulaic Classes

March 29, 2022

5 Weeks Left

March 28, 2022

Half a Slice of Apple Pie

March 27, 2022

Un-figure-out-able Software

March 26, 2022

Covid Test Instructions

March 25, 2022

Personal Software

March 24, 2022

Do You Subvocalize?

March 23, 2022

Read the Dang Thing Out Loud

March 22, 2022

Web of Thoughts

March 21, 2022

Preschooler > AI

March 20, 2022

The Code That Keeps Me Alive

March 19, 2022

iPad Impatience

March 18, 2022

You Might Be Right, But Shut Up

March 17, 2022

Thinking in Silence

March 16, 2022

Did MCAS Matter?

March 15, 2022

Pi

March 14, 2022

The Land of Endless Socialization

March 13, 2022

Best Type of Bathroom Lock

March 12, 2022

Heart Reacts

March 11, 2022

It Does Have to Be Every Day

March 10, 2022

Tufts Meal Plans Are a Scam

March 9, 2022

The Redemption Arc Is Coming

March 8, 2022

Couch Guy

March 7, 2022

Overwhelmed

March 6, 2022

October 5th, 1582

March 5, 2022

It's Fun to Do Things with Care

March 4, 2022

r/AskReddit

March 3, 2022

Am I a Gym Bro Now?

March 2, 2022

App Identity

March 1, 2022

Giving Out Chick-fil-A on a Schedule App

February 28, 2022

60 kHz

February 27, 2022

Social Jealousy

February 26, 2022

I Misjudged My Chinese Professor

February 25, 2022

Understanding CalcYouLater Subconsciously

February 24, 2022

A Sixth Sense for Errors

February 23, 2022

A Design Improvement for Our Communal Showers

February 22, 2022

Information Distribution

February 21, 2022

It Doesn’t Have to Be Every Day

February 20, 2022

My Guilt for Useless Things

February 19, 2022

Cornflakes

February 18, 2022

Gamelan Music

February 17, 2022

Streaks Are Extremely Powerful

February 16, 2022

Ben-Edit

February 15, 2022

Work-Life Separation in College

February 14, 2022

Website Rewrite

February 13, 2022

Fancy Quotation Marks

February 12, 2022

Meaningful Conversation

February 11, 2022

3:00 a.m. Radio

February 10, 2022

Gimme Back My Headphones

February 9, 2022

We’re All Powered by Electric Meat

February 8, 2022

College CS Classes Are Tragically Dull

February 7, 2022

I Keep Rewriting My Personal Website

February 6, 2022

A Small Life Radius

February 5, 2022

Mornings Set the Tone

February 4, 2022

The Brain Can Observe Itself

February 3, 2022

Locked Posts on Ghost

February 2, 2022

Good Software Has a Clear Geography

February 1, 2022

Everyone’s Asking for Tips Now

January 31, 2022

There’s No Personal Space in College

January 30, 2022

Is It Worth It to Be Passive Aggressive?

January 29, 2022

I Run My Life on Reminders

January 28, 2022

The Beginning of College Sucks

January 27, 2022

My Office Makes Me Feel Stupid

January 26, 2022

How Recurring Tasks in War Room Work

January 25, 2022

I Love Email

January 24, 2022

The Magic of the Common Room

January 23, 2022

Why Do We Still Use Snapchat?

January 22, 2022

Friday, January 21, 2022

January 21, 2022

Thursday, January 20, 2022

January 20, 2022

Wednesday, January 19, 2022

January 19, 2022

Tuesday, January 18, 2022

January 18, 2022

An emoji picker epiphany

January 17, 2022

Monday, January 17, 2022

January 17, 2022

I want to use all of my ridiculously many meal swipes

January 16, 2022

Sunday, January 16, 2022

January 16, 2022

Saturday, January 15, 2022

January 15, 2022

Friday, January 14, 2022

January 14, 2022

Thursday, January 13, 2022

January 13, 2022

War Room

October 22, 2021

Blocks recap

May 31, 2021