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Tuesday, October 08, 2024

Trying out Cursor editor

I'm trying out an editor called Cursor and am quite liking it as a replacement for VS Code + GitHub Copilot Chat. It is more aggressive in autocompleting than Copilot, which is good.

Another cool thing about Cursor is you can ask it questions about a specific PR (set scope to @PR):



Friday, October 04, 2024

A Raycast extension I contributed to

 I contributed a couple of commands to the excellent Raycast app and command launcher (similar to Alfred). The commands are called Transform and Transform Preview and are in the ChatGPT Quick Actions extension (needs a ChatGPT User API key).

Basically you select some text anywhere, do ⌥ Space to bring up Raycast, then select Transform and give it a prompt to act on and replace the selected text, like:
  • beautify JSON
  • do the math
  • count the occurrences of each line
Transform Preview displays the result in a window instead of replacing the selected text.



Things I bought that I wish I knew I could have gotten at Ikea for cheaper

 These are things I bought that I wish i knew Ikea sold so I could have bought them more cheaply:

  • doormats
  • rugs
  • saucepan
  • boot tray
  • cleaning gloves
  • microfibre cloths
  • soap dispensers
  • flat bedsheets
  • food containers
  • garbage cans
  • measuring cup
  • tape measure
  • can opener
  • salt and pepper shakers