inspired by Claude Code for Web — hacking together a way of spinning up multiple ampcode.com background agents that run inside @vercel.com sandboxes
October 26, 2025 at 3:25 PM
inspired by Claude Code for Web — hacking together a way of spinning up multiple ampcode.com background agents that run inside @vercel.com sandboxes
wrote a post about how Notion sees the world:
October 10, 2025 at 12:02 PM
wrote a post about how Notion sees the world:
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
October 8, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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
over the weekend, I built a small cms for the blog on my website. everything gets committed back to git as markdown files
October 7, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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
October 4, 2025 at 1:22 PM
a little more tinkering
current design → work in progress
October 3, 2025 at 3:06 PM
current design → work in progress
playing with a new design for my personal website (as always)
October 3, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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
October 1, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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
September 30, 2025 at 5:18 PM
this copy-pastable snippet in Notion Calendar is worded so elegantly with the meeting link. literally one of my favorite features of the app
Reposted by Ben Borgers
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
September 28, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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
spun up a D1 database to count requests per Google Sheet ID per hour, so I can figure out who the biggest users are
September 22, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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
spun up a D1 database to count requests per Google Sheet ID per hour, so I can figure out who the biggest users are
ever since Redis rebranded I can only see it as a gentrified food brand
September 20, 2025 at 1:56 PM
ever since Redis rebranded I can only see it as a gentrified food brand
animation when you try to download the lower quality optimized image (right-click/drag)
September 18, 2025 at 2:01 PM
animation when you try to download the lower quality optimized image (right-click/drag)
recently, it feels like LLMs either one-shot the code I want (saving me 5x the time!) or *almost* one-shot what I want, leading me to burn 5x the time trying to get it right before giving up and writing it myself
September 16, 2025 at 2:39 PM
recently, it feels like LLMs either one-shot the code I want (saving me 5x the time!) or *almost* one-shot what I want, leading me to burn 5x the time trying to get it right before giving up and writing it myself
I built a pipeline for making exam prep questions:
1️⃣ take a long PDF
2️⃣ feed it into the Anthropic API (which can “see” PDFs) to summarize each slide in detail
3️⃣ turn each slide’s description into a dozen questions
4️⃣ use a smaller Anthropic model to score the student’s answer
1️⃣ take a long PDF
2️⃣ feed it into the Anthropic API (which can “see” PDFs) to summarize each slide in detail
3️⃣ turn each slide’s description into a dozen questions
4️⃣ use a smaller Anthropic model to score the student’s answer
September 9, 2025 at 2:18 PM
I built a pipeline for making exam prep questions:
1️⃣ take a long PDF
2️⃣ feed it into the Anthropic API (which can “see” PDFs) to summarize each slide in detail
3️⃣ turn each slide’s description into a dozen questions
4️⃣ use a smaller Anthropic model to score the student’s answer
1️⃣ take a long PDF
2️⃣ feed it into the Anthropic API (which can “see” PDFs) to summarize each slide in detail
3️⃣ turn each slide’s description into a dozen questions
4️⃣ use a smaller Anthropic model to score the student’s answer
built a little app to help my girlfriend study for a dental school exam
September 9, 2025 at 1:41 AM
built a little app to help my girlfriend study for a dental school exam
Anki (the flashcards app) is proof that, if your product is useful enough, you can ship it in a garbage package of terminal-based launchers and inscrutable UI and still be wildly successful
September 8, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Anki (the flashcards app) is proof that, if your product is useful enough, you can ship it in a garbage package of terminal-based launchers and inscrutable UI and still be wildly successful
now a proud owner of the 1984 Macintosh Manual
September 7, 2025 at 2:12 PM
now a proud owner of the 1984 Macintosh Manual
dumped a sketchy pre-paid mastercard from my wifi provider into ampcode.com because they blocked Venmo and Amazon
September 4, 2025 at 1:56 PM
dumped a sketchy pre-paid mastercard from my wifi provider into ampcode.com because they blocked Venmo and Amazon
you graduate college and 3 months later they’re calling you “Mr. Borgers” 👴
September 2, 2025 at 10:14 PM
you graduate college and 3 months later they’re calling you “Mr. Borgers” 👴
print your Linear tickets for the vibes
September 1, 2025 at 1:05 AM
print your Linear tickets for the vibes