Rachel Cantor

Patreon's engineering team just published a deep dive on their seven-year TypeScript migration. The part that stuck with me: the typed foundation had to come first, or none of the tooling could be trusted. Wrote up a how-to on that infrastructure-first approach, including an...

Here's the tl;dr on how I handle feature development using Cursor as a solo dev:

1. Pick a feature and use the plan tool with blocking/non-blocking tasks in mind

2. Ask Cursor to analyze the plan for gaps in logic and unintended consequences

3. Use Cursor Composer to execute tasks...

Building RecipeCast solo meant I was my own QA, accessibility expert, and code reviewer. I needed AI to remember my preferences without me repeating them constantly. See how I use Cursor rules to ship consistent code: https://rachel.fyi/posts/say-less-with-cursor-rules/