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As you can probably tell, I've been on a bit of a builder kick the last few weeks. Today's "release" (it's been live for a few days already) is a tool to help fix a manual process we had in our family - tracking allowance for the kids.
I know I'm not alone in being a bit of a weather nerd. Along with four or five weather apps on my phone, I've got two physical devices in my office that show the weather and a weather widget on my Mac that shows the day's forecast. That's not enough. What I really wanted was a radar widget as well, so I built one:
Good morning my fabulous readers. This will be a quick post as I just wanted to share something cool I built with Cursor over the past couple of days - a LEGO screensaver. I'm a huge fan of "show me something random from something I like" and have built multiple bots in that vein. I recently discovered Rebrickable's LEGO datasets which contains a CSV file of LEGO sets. The data looks like so:
Greetings, programs. Once again, I'm a bit behind on these posts, but I just got back from two weeks of travel and I'm so happy to be home for a while. My last trip was pretty stressful. On the way out, our plane blew a tire (or tires) which required an emergency landing in Dallas (which is where we were scheduled to stop anyway). Everything ended up fine, but as I said, stressful. Then coming home we were minutes from our destination when the pilot had to turn around due to storms. You can actually see exactly where in the route where they said NOPE:
I've shared a few posts recently talking about how I'm using Cursor to learn and employ agentic development. Primarily that work has all been done via our Agent view, but this is just one of the surfaces you can use with the platform. I had a chance recently to try out the SDK and I thought I'd share a little demo I built with it.
This was a "I can't fall asleep and my mind is wondering" type of idea and honestly, I'm surprised at how good it came out. For a while now I've shared demos where a user picks an image and ... something. It doesn't matter. But I typically add a preview of the image when it's selected. This works because once the user selects a file on their local system, JavaScript can then access the bits of that file, making it trivial then to render it. The idea I had, late at night, was simple - what if this could be a web component and expanded to cover different file types?
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