Ben Borgers

Last semester, when things were getting stressful with schoolwork and freelance work, my girlfriend Trisha took my computer and made a note for planning out my tasks for the upcoming week.

Before this past semester I decided to put myself to a challenge: no dessert from the dining halls for the entire semester.

This past semester at Tufts, I added a second major: Engineering Psychology.

For a long time I’ve had the idea of publishing class notes on my website.

At the end of my freshman year at Tufts, I wrote a recap entitled year 1.

Why a redesign?

Like a lot of people, I’ve been going down the rabbit hole of playing with the ChatGPT AI recently.

As the first website that uses Superadmin, I built my roommate a portfolio for his art!

I’ve spent the past two days trying to gain confidence that Kiwi will perform at scale (and tearing my hair out in the process).

For the past few days I’ve been churning out new features on Superadmin, a CMS I built for my own projects and websites I make for people.

There’s this tweet I came across a while ago: i guarantee you have a lot more ideas in you than you think. you don't have a lack of ideas, you have a lack of deadlines.

I signed up for an Apple Card credit card a couple months ago because I truly am an Apple fanboy (and the Wallet app is very slick).

When building dark mode into a website, it’s tempting to invert the gray color scale across the site.

My favorite way of building web apps is to use Laravel, a PHP framework.

I’m a really big fan of Tailwind CSS, a framework for styling websites.

Bagel Institute is an app that I built for my dad.

I bought a new backpack for college.

When I went to Six Flags a month ago (the “Thrill Capital of New England,” as numerous announcements will remind you), I for some reason fixated on the hand signals that all the ride operators were doing.

Every morning, I get an email from a bot that I created.

I’m really jealous of people who can get their first name as a username.

YouTubers who make videos about how to be productive all have the same job: being a YouTuber.

I’m a person who has settled favorite foods in different cuisines.

When two people talk, they take turns talking about each other.

The driving school that I went to — the one that practically everyone at my high school went to — felt corrupt.

I used to not understand when people said that they preferred one store’s bubble tea over another.

Basecamp is the project management tool made by the people who made HEY, the email app that I use that I’ve blogged about before.

My dad is a math professor, and I’ve talked a lot with him about the disconnect between professors and their students.

I was talking with Trisha about a new project.

Was the original idea of Zoom that you’d spend most of the meeting muted?

I’ve used RSS to subscribe to blogs for around two years.

There’s this new dating app called Schmooze that had people advertising on Tufts’ campus a couple months ago.

Trisha makes fun of me because I’m drawn to brand-name stuff.

In recent weeks, I’ve tried to make it a daily habit to read 5 pages each day.

There’s this wonderful feeling that hits when I’m working past midnight.

In middle school, I really wanted this smartwatch called the Pebble Time.

Have you noticed that things seem to always go to shit after you’re through them?

While doing college applications, I kept telling two storylines about myself: I had spent the previous summer calling random friends who I didn’t know as well out of the blue and trying to get to know them better.

From the outside, apps seem resilient.

One of the first apps I really liked was Dark Sky.

I’ve been writing technical blog posts since October of 2019.

I realized while buying a new pair of shoes with Trisha today that my instinct is to refuse when offered to sign up for a store’s rewards program in exchange for a discount.

I recently watched a great video about the science behind habit-forming.

Today, I got an email from Tufts about their Juneteenth Observance Ceremony next week.

At the moment, I’ve accumulated a list of aspirational daily habits: Publish a daily blog post, like this one.

There’s something insane about creating apps for the web.

I think I have an eye for design.

A few years ago, I watched a video that mentioned how it’s been found that people with depression perceive more neutral interactions as negative.

There’s this brand of pocket notebooks called Field Notes.

There’s a funny thing about my to-do list: when I write something down on my list, it generally gets done.

One of my favorite mantras in life is: Your feelings are not unique.