After almost a year I'm back again, resuming my weekly journal. This time I think I'm gonna stick around because I have found this amazing AI speech to text tool which will make journaling much less friction process. As I'm speaking, I'm realizing my last blog post and even this journal is starting to sound like a sponsored article by superwhisper 😁.

A week of exploring AI tools

I experimented with lots of AI tools this week. I installed Cursor for the first time ever. For some reason I've been under the impression that it was just a slightly better copilot, pretty much an auto-completion tool but I couldn't have been more wrong! The auto completion is incredible. It works across the file and not just where your cursor is. And the chat is pretty responsive, much, much better than Copilot. And the agents are pretty smart as well. I think I'm gonna ditch VS Code for a while now and just use Cursor.

And then I started to look for other tools, similar to cursor and then came across Cline - a VSCode extension. A lot of people on the internet were saying it was better than Curusor. Obviously I gave it a shot. Cline is pretty cool, I don't know if it's better than cursor but it's definitely much much more expensive.

Then I also tried out Claude Code. I looked at what Aider was, but I don't think I'm gonna need it with all the tools that I already have.

After hearing a bunch about mcp, I finally gave it a shot. I think it's pretty cool. The one that I briefly used is the Postgres mcp server. I asked it to create a view and it just did. It got it right the first time.

I also tried out the new LLM from Google: Gemma 3. I tried out both the 27B and the 12B model. The 27B runs fine on my Mac. There are some initial delays. But I don't feel the need to use it because the cloud tools are just better and faster. I'm gonna keep it around just to prepare for the day my internet goes down.

I think the two tools that would be the find of the week or even - find of the year - for me so far would be SuperWhisper & Cursor.

I bought a new Air Purifier

I got the - BlueAir 3410. I wanted to get one last year because the pollution here in Kathmandu, Nepal was so bad, it literally hurt my lungs . The plan was to import one from India but yeah things didn't go as planned. I didn't find anyone that could help me import it so yeah things just ended like that.

I literally had never heard of BlueAir before I came across this experiment video yesterday. A mini BlueAir gave a run for its money to all the other big players.

This time as winter has ended the pollution has started to go up. It's just starting... there is a road construction happening around Kathmandu Valley and then it's the time of here where you're gonna face lots of drought throughout the country and I just had to get it one get one as early as possible This was purchased with a very short research. I basically just saw a video yesterday and BlueAir was one of the value for money. APU fires and fortunately I found an official store just near me so I just got the 3421 APU fire. It doesn't really have all the bells and whistles. Like I really wanted one that would have an app that I could connect to smart devices in future. But you know what really matters is it purifies the air properly. And I think it's doing pretty good job because every time I open the door, the fan just goes up and it shows orange which means there's a fairly, fairly, fairly bad pollution.

Life stuffs

  • Yeah, it's been two weeks. This is my second week of learning to drive. I did the L back. It just started on the uphill downhill.

  • I had what I think is the best fried rice ever that I've tried so far at Haopin Hotpot

  • Been browsing through this Chinese Dad's cooking channel. Tried this Brocoli recipe. A commonly used sauce seems to be a mixture of

    • light soy sauce
    • Oyster sauce
    • Sugar
    • Slat
    • Corn Starch
    • Chicken Bullion Powder

  • It's only been my first month in the MacOS ecosystem and I've already purchased my first software. I got the lifetime subscription of iStatMenu7.