Alex Borger

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I work in software development and tech for about 30 years. Most of the time I was self-employed and running my own software company. My focus was always on web and cloud technologies, data infrastructures, user experience, and security. In the recent years I expanded my interests and skills into artificial intelligence (neural nets, machine learning), and into several sustainability topics. I'm especially interested in using technologies as a major enabler for a more just, peaceful, curious, intelligent, and sustainable society.

I'm open for per-project hires, co-founding startups, or experimental collaborations. You can contact me via email or follow me on social media.

Blog

A collection of posts, notes, and small articles Blog

Recent Work

Computational Life Reactor (CLR)

CLR is an interactive browser implementation of the computational-life experiments studied by Agüera y Arcas and collaborators (mlst/YouTube). Random byte tapes are repeatedly paired and executed in the BFF language, allowing self-replicating programs to emerge without a fitness function or explicit selection process. CLR provides live population visualizations, frequency and compression measurements, and a step-by-step execution sampler. The simulation runs locally using WebAssembly and parallel browser workers. A great 12 minutes introduction into the topic featuring CLR is provided by Johannes Martin (Number Cruncher) on YouTube.

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Climate Change Tracker

Climate Change Tracker is a public climate data platform that makes global and national climate change data clear, accessible, and up to date. It transforms complex scientific information into dashboards, charts, and insights that help a broad audience understand where the world stands on climate change. Launched in 2021 by Alex Borger and Jiddu A. Broersma, the platform is today operated by the non-profit Data for Action Foundation and reaches around 10,000 users per month.

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Dashgrid

Dashgrid is a realtime data tracking platform that turns raw data streams into clean, shareable dashboards. Data is pushed through a minimal API and appears live in beautifully consistent, responsive dashboards, and widgets. Unlike heavyweight BI and data exploration tools, Dashgrid is built around simplicity: curated signals over noise, made for the people tracking the numbers as much as the developers providing them. Dashgrid launched in Q1 2026 and is currently in open beta.

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Open Source & Experiments

AI Playground: Neuron Lab

Interactive lab showing what a single artificial neuron computes

AI Playground: Gradient Descent Lab

How a neuron learns — gradient descent, step by step

MeScreen

A floating camera overlay for macOS that keeps a draggable camera circle above other windows

NextCursor

An adaptive macOS cursor that snaps to controls, morphs to their shape, and becomes an I-beam over text

Orbitals Writer

An experimental, playful system to encode words as unique glyphs

3D Earth Sim

Interactive 3D Earth simulator built with Three.js