Hello world!
My weekend has been very very slow. Slept in a bunch and didn’t do a whole lot. Same as the weather, frankly. I’ve been in the progress of reshuffling some of my self-hosted apps around, with the goals of eventually decommissioning the dedicated server I’m currently renting since my home server is much more powerful now. I’ve been a little inspired since Xe Iaso’s Recent talk on their cool homelab setup, perhaps I’ll do a little write up of my own afterwards; I really should use the blog more often.
Work is having our dev team try out the LLM-integrated editor Cursor for a while. In the interest of being unbiased I have been giving it a fair shot, using it to help author some of my commits of the last week to varying degrees. The autocomplete on tab has been a little nice but can get in the way occasionally as it’s also my key to complete IntelliSense suggestions, and I think it’s actually been sneakily deleting code that is actually used, somehow. I’ve caught it 3 times so far. The chat system is interesting but I haven’t found much use in its results for the problems that I face at work. I’m going to keep with it for a while longer, see if there’s anything redeeming about it further on.
Also it’s locked to using cloud AI shit like OpenAI & Claude, sadly. Would like to be able to try it out with my local Ollama instance, but I suppose there’s other extensions that would allow me to do so.
I’ve been a little better at being healthier this week, trying to reduce my snacking frequency and what it is I’m snacking on, as well as easing into more frequent exercising. I’ve found that the VR exercise has been working really well for me, especially in terms of motivation, so that’s going to be my go-to from now on where possible.
This week’s song is PRAANA - Zilker Gardens Echo