Lev Lazinskiy

Recent Posts

• Cursor Playbook

  Learned about nxtscape from HN today and interesting to see this cursor playbook emerging.

  1. Take an existing open source product with a huge marketplace/ecosystem
     • cursor: vs code
     • nxtscape: chrome
  2. Fork it
  3. Change some branding
  4. Stick some LLM hooks into it and fire up a sidepanel to chat.
  5. Profit.

  The existing ecosystem is the key here, but Google does not want to lose browser market share. There are a hundred chrome forks that they don’t care about just like there were many vs code spins out in the world. Microsoft only started to pay attention once they started losing deals and developer mind-share to cursor.

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• Generated Dependencies

  The other day I wrote this chunker for my Bluesky dagger module using Claude that automatically splits up long posts into chunks and posts the correct amount of things onto Bluesky. It took a few seconds to generate and worked on the first try. Then I had this brilliant idea to add a few tests to make sure it keeps working for the long haul and all hell broke loose.

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• Chinese Bio

  I’m taking an in-person Chinese class in San Mateo and our final assignment for this block is to a write a biography in Chinese and then stand up in front of the classa and read it. Here it goes.

  大家好！我姓Lazinskiy叫Lev. 我是俄国人。我是三十六岁。我有一个哥哥。我哥哥和他的妻子有四个孩子。三个儿子和一个女儿。第一个儿子六岁。第二和第三个儿子都四岁。他的女儿六月。他们都说英语和俄语。他们住在Ohio。我爸爸妈妈也住在Ohio。我住在加州。

  我在Florida上大学。Florida 夏天太热了。二零一一年我毕业了。二零一五年我搬加州。我十个年住在这里。二零二零我结婚了。因为我的丈夫是中国人，所以我正在学习中文。我和我的丈夫今年买了第一个房子。我们还没有孩子。

  我现在在电脑公司工作。我每天很忙。虽然我的工作有一点儿累，但是我喜欢我的工作。周末我喜欢走路，做饭，看书，和休息。我想去中国放假完。在中国的时候我会吃好吃的菜。

  同学们，我喜欢跟你们一起学习中文。谢谢你，下个月见！

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• Rules for joining a startup

  Hot takes that I’ve learned along the way.

  Do’s

  WIP

  Dont’s

  1. Don’t join a stealth startup.
  2. Don’t join a role where you title is “founding X”, the longer the X the more urgent this warning.
  3. Don’t join a startup run by siblings, the more siblings the more urgent this warning.
  4. Don’t join a startup with a solo founder.
  5. Don’t join a startup that adds an extra vowel in their name (i.e ‘heey’, ‘wiin’, ‘claap’)

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• Everything wrong with developer tools in a single paragraph

  I’m working on making a Dagger module for Wrangler, a CLI from Cloudflare that allows you to manage worker projects.

  In their docs it feels like they summarize everything wrong with modern dev tools in a single paragraph:

  To install Wrangler ↗, ensure you have Node.js ↗ and npm ↗ installed, preferably using a Node version manager like Volta ↗ or nvm ↗. Using a version manager helps avoid permission issues and allows you to change Node.js versions. Wrangler requires a Node version of 16.17.0 or later.

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