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Cursor rules to improve your productivity!

Cursor rules to improve your productivity!

Frontend Fridays #3 - August 30, 2024

Krishna Sumanth
August 30, 2024 • Estimated Reading Time: 2 minutes

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Let’s get to it:

#1 🎨

Switched from Cursor to Zed this week and really enjoying it so far. It's faster, and I like their approach to AI.
Also love editing and saving files directly in the search results page — makes refactoring much easier
— Nathan Baschez (@nbashaw)
7:15 PM • Aug 29, 2024

Which way western man?!

BTW, if you use Cursor, @pontusab launched a directory with .cursorrules of different languages! Check it out here - https://cursor.directory/

#2 🎨

#dev tip:
In Electron, if you need to open another window, instead of creating a new BrowserWindow, you can call window.open and render content into it using React portals.
The entire screen.studio app uses this concept
— Adam Pietrasiak (@pie6k)
9:52 AM • Aug 23, 2024

I love this UX tip – 1 line change, 10x improvement! 👌

#3 🎨

Here’s your periodic reminder that
`usr` in /usr/bin stands for “universal system resources” not “user”, and
`/dev` in `/dev/vdisk0` stands for “device” not “development”
🙌
— Tejas Kumar (@TejasKumar_)
4:26 PM • Aug 28, 2024

TIL! 🤯

#4 🎨

Haha we've all been there. I stumbled by this tweet earlier today and tried to write a little utility that auto-generates git commit message based on the git diff of staged changes. Gist:
So just typing `gcm` (short for git commit -m) auto-generates a… x.com/i/web/status/1…
— Andrej Karpathy (@karpathy)
8:50 PM • Aug 25, 2024

I’ve set up a “g” command in my CLI which adds, commits & pushes the changes to GitHub. Such a time saver!

#5 🎨

Famous last words 😂🤭
— Ryan Els (@RyanEls4)
8:00 AM • Aug 24, 2024

We’ve all been there! 🤣

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