Ben Bjurstrom

I've been trying to figure out a way to use AI agents like OpenClaw or Claude Code to help track my personal finances. As a long time YNAB user, I've always have a tough time sticking with a budget. After a while uncategorized transactions pile up and I end up scrapping the whole thing. I ended up building a command line interface for Actual Budget that's agent friendly and includes a set of...

Hi, I’m Ben, long time web developer but this is my first time building a macOS app. I film a lot of tutorial and talking-head content and wanted to make it easier to chop out mistakes. So I built CutWord, a macOS app that lets you mark cue points with voice commands while you’re recording. Once the app downloads a Whisper model everything runs locally, so nothing leaves your machine. You can...

Excited to share a package I’ve been working on for the Laravel PHP Framework called Prezet. It transforms your markdown files into SEO-friendly blogs, articles, and documentation. I created this package to scratch my own itch as I prefer working with markdown files when creating blogs, articles, and documentation. I love being able to see the content diffs in source control as well as use my...

Hi, I am Ben Bjurstrom and I've been hacking away on a meal planning site called MealPractice for the last couple years. The main goals for the site are: 1. Enable users to create weekly meal plans, either from individual recipes or from a collection of recipes saved as a menu. 2. Allow users to publish the meals they're actually cooking, helping them identify their core meals and enabling...