Around the Web #1

PublishedOctober 19, 2024

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Vignesh M

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Share interesting links I read, things I found online.

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I've started using Cursor as my main IDE for the last two weeks and moved away from IntelliJ completely. If you asked a week before if I'll be switching to an IDE other than Jetbrain's, I would have said no. But I've seen cursor doing great things and I just wanted to try it for few days.

If you're used to a tool for so long and want to try something new, the best way would be to switch cold turkey and using it for few weeks. That's what I did with cursor and it clicked. I don't want to go back to webstorm as of now.

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The following links doesn't fall under any specific category, but are just the stuff that I found interesting.

That's about it. I'm trying to keep this as low effort as possible because that's the only way I'll keep doing it. Let me know what you think about these links or this format.

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