Sometimes I wonder how my plants feel about me drinking tea in front them.

Over-applying LLMs is like driving to the corner store: you spend longer parking than walking. They’re great for teaching and cold starts, less great as an unmonitored end-to-end pipeline. www.gndclouds.earth/journal/whe...

Would be cool if Cursor's .md preview was a TipTap-style rich text editor. I always get a little frustrated when I try to edit the preview and it just opens the raw markdown instead.

After a few weeks with Claude Cowork, I've landed on three patterns that changed how I work: solving the cold start problem, building to learn instead of reading docs, and rapid visual exploration at scale. www.gndclouds.earth/journal/tho...

It's pretty wild how much I have learned in the last year just by talking to cursor.

We have protocols for giving agents tools (MCP). We have protocols for giving agents tasks (A2A). What we don't have is a protocol for giving agents presence. www.gndclouds.earth/journal/obs...

Noticed a drone pod on the roof of my local fire department and got curious. No public flight logs from SFFD yet, but SFPD is required to log all drone flights and retain records for two years. #crafted-with-cursor

"The chatbot is in the desert and dying. Why are you crying and helping it?"

just doodling on some things

sensors.planetary.software is an early experiment making it easy to explore just how much of the physical world is already being measured, quietly and constantly, all around us. #crafted-with-cursor gndclouds.earth/project/sen...

pretty happy with how this is evolving, there are now about 22k public sensors available as an MCP service, with all the data now normalized across the external APIs. Its starting to feel like a substrate for physical world intelligence.

exploring sensor data visualizations

just more globes

The tabs state still feels a little off, but I'm finally happy with the loading state for the post title.

When you finally have docs for project and need to tell Cursor about it. 🙂 iwg-atlas-docs.vercel.app/

Testing something #crafted-with-cursor

I may regret this, but hoping to learn a lot either way. Crafting personal tools has become an obsession. With Cursor, I keep making software instead of buying it. And I want to hold myself to that for this year. www.gndclouds.earth/journal/curs...

I've been wanting to explore this idea for a while. Instead of using a dedicated chat app, what does a chat overlay feel like? One where I can quickly ask questions or call local tools without leaving what I'm working on. But with memory then say a Raycast.

progress submit button is a vibe.

For those using Cursor with Xcode, do you have any tips or integrations that make it easier to edit interfaces and work with Xcode all via Cursor?

planetary boundaries are a compelling idea to me, the data is so scattered across NOAA, EPA, USGS, university sensors, satellite feeds. no unified layer to ask "is this system losing resilience?" How do we track these when the data is so spread out. stockholmresilience.org

the globe experimenting continues

There's a gap between frontier AI and the physical world. Claude and GPT can discuss climate science abstractly but can't tell you if the creek behind your house is rising. The data exists. The infrastructure to connect it doesn't.

I don't have a clear use for this yet but it was fun to make.

what's your favorite weird nature dataset? I'm collecting earth APIs for a project and want the niche stuff. plants? fungi? ocean buoys? soil? send them my way!

playing with menu select states and refresh states.

trying to reduce noise in a tool panel and playing with exposing slider states on mouse hover instead of them always being visible.

The gap between frontier AI and the physical world won't close by making models smarter—it'll close by building the plumbing. Wrote about what's missing and what I'm working on. www.gndclouds.earth/journal/a-m...

Investigating real-time sensor interaction through an MCP layer. How do we build a substrate for sensor networks ?

I can not wait for this ui glass phase to be over. It's so hard todo well, and so many apps are not doing it well. 😓

try control + shift + c cursor.ai made me chuckle rather loudly in the cafe, thank you.

Shouldn't the size of the Files folder and System Settings applications panel be the same? Does System Settings also look at the Library/Application Support directory too?

feeling like we need more tools to think about thinking, so much gets lost in the hustle of needing to 'launch' something. Just slow down and think.

some nice patterns

Any idea why in Figma I can change the thickness and offset of an underline but not a strike though?

We should spend the time to make interfaces more playful again. www.are.na/gndclouds/pl...

this feels rather timely www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9A_...

What a wonderful channel on @are.na www.are.na/pareena/hidd...

What is noise canceling head phones only passed through bird songs.

Just got Notion Mail access, all they did was create a wrapper for Gmail after killing Skiff, which was a fantastic email product. So disappointing.

If your a researcher or scientist, where do you order your sensors from other then Campbell, Vaisala, HOBOm, Aranet, or Adafruit?

whoa, fancy new error state @nextjs.org ! loving the new vibe.

the Dual MN 8010 is such a vibe

Some people were pretty incredulous when we published this before the election www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...

Drawing on the multidisciplinary expertise of Dm’s Next Economics Lab and Conversational Design Studio, we will explore how designers and non-designers can collaborate to reconfigure societal systems. . Download our first publication at: led.darkmatterlabs.org/conversations/

Strava, please improve your notification settings. Receiving back-to-back event emails feels excessive—why not consolidate them into a single summary email per group?

Whoa migratory birds can see the earth’s magnetic field. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/r...

everyone: watching super bowl me: skipping around the city going to all the places that would normally be busy but aren't.

Preview doesn’t natively support exporting multiple PDF pages as images anymore? why? What an odd thing to remove. 😔