Ben Borgers

I’ve been thinking lately about what I want the Ben Content Machine to be like.

I was building a date picker last night, and I decided to structure it as three select boxes: I’m sure there’s nicer date pickers, but this was quick and easy.

We all know the uproar around Pluto not being a planet anymore.

On TikTok, it feels like everybody’s in your peer group.

This one isn’t deep, but it’s just a thought I had: there should be trash bags in the laundry room.

I had a thought this morning, as I was getting ready at 7:30am for a morning class: I think that waking up early makes me happy.

At the end of senior year of high school, some friends and I ran the yearly senior tradition of Assassins.

A lot of my projects are under the domain elk.sh.

I usually use a framework called Laravel to build web apps for my side projects.

I want my website to be more like a library.

Last summer, the summer before freshman year of college, I had this idea that I’d keep really detailed notes on my classes and then publish them somehow on a website I’d make.

I have a page of my website at benborgers.com/swipes that tracks my progress towards using all 400 of my meal swipes this semester.

There’s a lot of posters up on campus, trying to get you to come to things or apply for things or do things.

One thing I enjoy about my current Tufts CS class, CS 15: Data Structures, is that I’m learning the things I’ve felt like I should know but didn’t.

I’ve got to say, my enthusiasm for Chinese class is waning again.

I’m back at Tufts after spring break today, and realized that there are only 5 weeks left of school.

Three weeks ago, I went to get dessert in the dining hall.

I don’t really remember a time before smartphones and the internet.

I’ve taken a couple rapid Covid tests over the past couple days, and (although this is weird) I really loved the instructions that came with the BinaxNOW tests.

Since I know how to make web apps, the urge to create personal software for myself and the people around me is huge.

Years ago, I heard about the concept of subvocalization on the Hello Internet podcast.

There are people who enjoy the process of editing their writing.

The new thing for note-taking apps is that you can link your notes together with “bi-directional links” — if you link from one note to another note, the other note also indicates that it was linked to by the first note.

My dad told me an interesting idea about AI that I haven’t been able to shake since.

In December, MSCHF released a project called Tontine.

My new iPad was supposed to arrive today, but instead UPS pushed the delivery date back until next week.

In yesterday’s blog post, I linked to an op-ed about how kids should be allowed to be bored more often.

At home, I listen to a podcast or music while showering.

Starting in third grade, we took the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System test — the MCAS.

In elementary school, I learned 60 digits of pi by memory.

College feels a bit like the land of endless socialization.

Traits of a good bathroom lock: It’s completely clear whether it’s currently locked or unlocked.

Heart reacts have got to be one of the best inventions in modern text-based communication.

I wrote a couple weeks ago about how It Doesn’t Have to Be Every Day.

Today, I did a bit of investigative journalism.

When humans tell stories, they like to tell them with a redemption arc.

Do you remember Couch Guy?

I think that one of my biggest problems is that I get overwhelmed easily.

A cool fact that I came across on Twitter this morning: October 5th, 1582, never existed.

In CS 15 (Data Structures), we’re currently doing the second of two back-to-back projects.

I read a lot of r/AskReddit as a middle schooler.

Before last August, I would have recoiled at the idea of going to the gym.

I bounce around productivity apps, and I don’t like that.

In November of senior year, I added a Chick-fil-A tab to Blocks, the schedule app I built for my high school.

There’s a radio station in Colorado that broadcasts the time.

Isn't it surprising how little it takes to trigger social jealousy?

A month ago, I wrote a scathing account of my first Chinese class.

We got our next Computer Science project yesterday, named CalcYouLater (get it?

I’ve been seeing at a lot of errors lately in my code for CS 15: Data Structures.

My dorm’s communal showers are already quite good.