As I wrote in the previous article, the developments with Cursor gave rise to an opportunity to replace spreadsheets with React apps, while saving on time and brainpower. In this article, I’ll share more tips on what happens after the app is developed. Inevitably, you will discover bugs and room for improvement for it to match your vision precisely.

Recent developments in Cursor AI-powered IDE have effectively made it so that it takes less time and effort for me to develop a React app for my administrative needs rather than turn to a spreadsheet. This post describes the technique I use to do so.

Programming is easy and effortless when things go right. This happy path is where AI shines. There are sandboxed environments of development, coheasive ecosystems of tools, frameworks, libraries, which play well together to achieve a certain goal. There are also generally accepted patterns and ways of doing things. While you’re working within such a sandbox, exactly following the purposes it was built for, you’re on the happy path.

Two months ago I moved to Japan to pursue something I’ve always wanted to do. I’ve been a fan of Japanese culture for a long time, and always wanted to understand the language - so now I’m studying at a language school in Tokyo.

Being exposed to unbiased, relevant, high-quality news can open the door to professional opportunities, learning, quality personal time. How do we consume news and other content in this day and age? It is mainly via personalized feeds of social networks and notifications they send us.