Big fan of Gemini 2.5 + Cursor but its far from a panacea.
After using Cursor heavily the past few weeks I agree with the authors points. The ability to work outside of Cursor/AI is paramount within small software teams because you will periodically run into things it can't do - or worse it will lead you in a direction that wastes a lot of developer time.
Cursor will get better at this over time, and the underlying model, but the executive vision of this is absolutely broken and at this point I can only laugh at the problems this generation of startups will inevitably go through when they realize their teams no longer have the expertise to solve things in more traditional manners.
Roo Code with Gemini 2.5 Pro has been really great and FREE. I'm super curious to see how this landscape changes. I'm still surprised Windsurf managed to be acquired for $3B too. Give it a few years and there won't be a point in paying for these editors. I don't think there is currently.
Yeah the guards go home for the evening and then you can probably walk in after dark. You'd have to walk a really long distance in some of them though, because the vehicle gates are usually a very long walk from the scenery, and that's at high altitude.
It’s a nice idea. I know someone who released something super similar called TreeTop. There’s also something I’ve been getting ads for called NomadTable. There’s an urge for connection out there.
This is really cool. I also had similar frustrations with excel on big group trips and made an app called https://avosquado.app that is similar but also different.
I like the live save of input. I had some UI issues on mobile web but am curious to check it out more on my desktop! What did you use as a backend?
It was already common then, I gather—the ex-developer-product-owner guy who showed it to me (in the course of doing something else) didn’t seem to think it was remarkable, just an assumed capability. I don’t recall the name of the product, but it’d record all the input and page content for an entire session, you could watch it play back like a video. Exactly like standing over someone’s shoulder while they used their computer. Creepy as fuck, but some genius renamed “spyware” to “telemetry” and that was enough to get every developer on board because we’re super insecure and will jump at the chance to pretend we’re building Mars rovers or something else real while we make yet another “app” the world doesn’t need (I suppose that’s why that label was so successful at changing attitudes, anyway)
Click-mapping came earlier, and there may have been a few places mouse-movement and cross-page-load session tracking some sessions, but I don’t think it was a “just turn it on and leave it on” thing for even most large sites. And a lot of early heat maps came from user studies, which is the right way to do that.
[edit] also, that just happened to be the first time I’d seen a single session represented that way, rather than aggregates. Again, it wasn’t some brand-new thing then, it’d been around long enough to have multiple companies offering it as a service, not just an internal tool at a couple giants.
Super great movie. We watched it in our transitional justice class in university. Our professor was from the eastern bloc and grew up with the informants and the collapse of it all. It was interesting to study what happens after the end of an oppressive regime. The movie illustrated that pretty well in its timeline.
Asana! They have a board view and you can just create a project that is a 'sprint' by adding categories and putting it in the board view. And then add tickets from other projects to the sprint and drag them through different states. And it's free.
Mobile app is also very very good which means you can easily update or use it to make tickets while on the go...or in bed.
