Using LLMs and Cursor to become a finisher
By Zohaib Rauf
I’ve had a similar experience. I’m not an engineering manager, but I don’t get to write as much code as I’d like at home or at work. I’ve had several side projects (or even just ideas to explore) that I’ve put off forever because I didn’t have enough time to sit down and get through a lot of the boilerplate needed to even start.
Using Cursor, I’ve been able to get a couple of prototype apps built for myself. What would have taken at least 2+ weeks of effort is now just a few hours. I agree with Zohaib that you should start with a spec and work in small iterations. I have not has as good an experience letting Cursor bootstrap the project. I end up setting up the skeleton of the project myself and letting it take over from there. That may be unique to my projects though – one was Swift using Xcode and another .NET 8.
Updating My Obsidian Workflow: Unbelievable Power
By Christopher Lawley
I’m doubling down on my Obsidian use this year, specifically seeing how it can help at work. I’ve used it at home for many years, but I’ve mostly used it as a Markdown file organizer & search, nothing more.
I’m not using Christopher’s Launchpad concept, but I did figure out a super helpful template for my Daily Notes inspired by what he does. I’ll post about that in the future. Obsidian’s new Web Clipper tool was new to me as well. I’m trying that out as well to see how that integrates into my workflow. I can see that replacing Instapaper for me in a lot of cases as well as making it easier to save off useful webpages as resources for later.
My approach to running a link blog
By Simon Willison
Simon’s post is what inspired me to try collecting the links I’ve found useful this week and posting them here. I follow several people that post link blogs (or at least a link blog type post occasionally) and usually find them pretty helpful, so I thought I’d give it a try.