Technical-Findings

At 9:14 a.m. on a Wednesday, I open the laptop. The daily briefing for today is already there. Above the fold: a Whoop recovery score of 62 (fine), a Wakatime row showing 4h 21m on the OpenTelemetry Go compile-time instrumentation repo yesterday, three GitHub PRs waiting on review, and a Things 3 task that has been sliding forward for nine days: Review that thing from X. Each previous day the task migrated, and the journal entry from that day is one click away. The reason it kept slipping is in those entries somewhere. ...

TL;DR: Spent a week building cool stuff with Cursor, an AI-powered IDE. Found it surprisingly effective for both coding and managing my second brain. When your requirements are clear, it’s almost magical! ✨ 1 1 “Magic” here = fast iteration because the AI had unambiguous intent + cohesive context windows. ↩ The Setup: R&D Week Vibes You know that feeling when R&D week rolls around, and you’re caught between “I should learn something useful” and “I want to have fun”? Well, this time I decided to combine both by digging into Cursor, an AI-powered code editor that’s been making waves in the developer community. ...