My Global Hack Week Recap: Cursor, Grok and a Few Tiny Apps
Last week I took part in MLH's Global Hack Week as part of Hacktoberfest 2026. I had one week, a healing ankle, and a goal of finishing my Hacktober…
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Claude Code read a file listed in .claudeignore 12 of 12 times; a Read deny rule blocked every read except grep -r
A .claudeignore entry changed nothing in Claude Code 2.1.289: the fake secret it listed came back in 12 of 12 attempts across Read, cat , grep -r ,…
Give your coding agent an "ask first" list, not just a "never" list
Most agent configs have two modes: things the agent may do, and things it must never do. Real work needs a third bucket: ask first . A flat deny-lis…
This week in Cursor + .NET — 7 rules (week ending October 04, 2026)
Every weekday a single, opinionated rule for senior C#/.NET engineers using Cursor. Here's the full week in one read — canonical posts live on the A…
Claude Code vs Cursor: Terminal Agent or Full IDE?
TL;DR Claude Code wins if you live in the terminal: it plans multi-step refactors, runs its own commands, and works inside any codebase without an e…
Дизайн за 5 минут. Дайджест сентября 2026
Привет, Хабр! На связи Андрей, продуктовый дизайнер Garage Eight . В сентябре обновлений было много: новые модели, интерфейсные фичи, библиотеки и н…
Кедр: SACD ISO в FLAC, написанный в Cursor
Мне нужна была утилита под macOS, которая берёт образ Super Audio CD и делает из него FLAC. Обычный путь «открыть ISO в ffmpeg» здесь не работает: в…
Stop your AI agent from writing N+1 Prisma queries (free Cursor rule + Claude Code skill)
AI coding agents are great at writing Prisma code that works and quietly terrible at writing Prisma code that scales . The most common thing I see i…
AI Coding Assistant Comparison: Copilot vs. Cursor vs. Codeium 2026
AI Coding Assistant Comparison: Copilot vs. Cursor vs. Codeium 2026 The AI coding assistant landscape is a battlefield, with GitHub Copilot, Cursor,…
Same app. Same taps. Why does one feel premium?
Revolut, Linear, and Apple Wallet feel expensive. Most apps don't. The gap is rarely the design. It is what happens in the 200 ms after every tap. S…
KERNEL SHADOWS: курс по Linux, где ни один тест не требует root, сети и железа
Три недели назад я рассказывал про курс языка C, который собрал себе сам с помощью ИИ. Тем же способом собрался второй — про Linux. Идея была записа…
ИИ – это трактор без водителя: почему 98% разработки с LLM решает экосистема
Есть тезис, за повторение которого в последнее время мне регулярно «прилетает» в комментариях и кулуарах: сама языковая модель дает примерно 2% резу…
Writing Cursor rules that actually fire: activation modes explained
A Cursor rule that never fires is indistinguishable from a rule you never wrote. There is no warning, no log line, no UI flag. You find out when the…
Benchmarking affaan-m/ECC in Cursor: Agent Harness Rules Without Context Exhaustion
When evaluating affaan-m/ECC (v2.0, The Agent Harness Operating System ), the main attraction is standardization. Instead of manually copying fragme…
A Minimal AGENTS.md and Cursor Rules Setup for Next.js App Router
Coding agents do not know the conventions of a Next.js codebase unless the repository tells them. Without that context, a new session can introduce…
Stop Shipping Architecture Diagrams That Cannot Be Verified
It is 3:00 AM, database connections are dropping, and the on-call engineer is staring at a diagram routing traffic through a cluster decommissioned…
How to Search Cursor Chat History Across Workspaces
Originally published on Extracurricular AI . You remember fixing the authentication bug. You cannot remember which project contained the conversatio…
Let Claude Code and Cursor query your database (safely) — the MCP setup
An agent that can read your database answers questions you'd otherwise open a SQL editor for. "Why did signups drop on Tuesday?" "Which orders have…
What Is an AI Harness? A Practical Guide with a Laravel CMS Example
An AI harness is a structured set of files, rules, skills, workflows, and project context that surrounds an AI coding agent. Instead of repeating th…
A translation tool built for developers: hover, comment replacement, terminal translation, Markdown mode
Context switching kills productivity — especially when you constantly translate docs, source comments, issues, and terminal errors. I’ve been using…
Why `anthropics/skills` Earned 277 Stars Today: Reusable Agent Workflows, Not More Prompts
anthropics/skills is a public collection of Agent Skills: portable, task-focused instruction packages that help coding agents handle repeatable work…
I parsed 559 public CLAUDE.md files. Most of what's in them isn't rules.
I've been building a tool that checks whether Claude Code actually followed the rules in your CLAUDE.md. Early on I realised I was testing it agains…
OPERATION MOONLIGHT 1.0: курс языка C, который я сам себе собрал
Мне хотелось разобраться с языком C по-человечески: не «сто задач на указатели», а так, чтобы каждая написанная программа была зачем-то нужна. Готов…
'Enshittified at a Surprising Clip': A Week of Hacker News on AI Coding Tools
Some fortnights the complaints about AI come from people who barely use it. This one they came from the people who use it most. Scroll Hacker News o…
Cursor Origin VS Github
The day GitHub broke for 7 hours, Cursor launched its replacement. Coincidence? Sure. But 35% of merged PRs are now written by AI. Buckle up. On the…
I was solving agent portability at the wrong boundary
Copying the last repo's agent setup into a new one worked at first. It also copied product-specific assumptions. Once I had several active projects,…
The Upgrade That Wasn’t: When ‘Newer’ AI Feels Like a Downgrade
Some fortnights the complaint is the bill. This one it was the product itself. Across the forums where paying customers of the big AI tools compare…
Easily setup Vault for Cursor cloud agents
One of the easiest and most helpful features of Cursor is Cloud Agents. With often 1 click you can have an agent in an ephemeral environment that yo…
Три плагина для Mattermost за день: как мы закрыли боли мессенджера с помощью Cursor
Очередная история про AI и разработку, но с конкретикой. Mattermost на Team Edition, три ежедневные боли: нельзя нормально ответить на сообщение в к…
SKILL.md is not a compiler
If you use Cursor long enough, you will watch it ignore a rule you wrote down. You add a SKILL.md. You tell it "no explicit any". You maybe add a ho…