Not "with it" today

I didn't sleep well last night. Most nights I don't sleep well. Today I'm dragging ass more than usual though, not sure why. I went to bed at a decent hour (for me) yesterday, so I should feel fine but I don't. Just lethargic and tired. It's been a month since I had my little heart issue, and I haven't had any problems since then. I still don't know why it happened, what the cause was, or if it will happen again. I had an appointment with my primary care doctor that got postponed a week, so hopefully this coming Wednesday I'll be able to show her the cath lab report and finally get some answers. So I've been working with a new IDE for about the last 5 weeks or so. It's called Cursor, and it has an AI baked into it that is pretty impressive. I first heard about it at a Python meetup group I attend on Tuesday nights, so I signed up for a Udemy course about Cursor roughly a month ago and have been working through the course material ever since. It's got me building a site that uses Next.js and TypeScript to run. The site has an API key generator built into it that I managed to get working after a lot of troubleshooting and code rewriting, mostly by Cursor. It's also got a tool that uses an LLM to summarize readme articles from GitHub. I managed to get both of these components working on a MVP level, but I've run into a big issue with the user authentication part of it. It uses Google's cloud services, and i can't seem to get the login authentication flow to work right. I think I'm going to have to start the course over again before I can get everything working properly, which sucks, but if it's what I need to do then it'll be good practice with Cursor. Overall I'm pretty impressed with Cursor. You can tell it something like "Build a website that has this list of features, etc etc" and it will autogenerate all the code needed to bring it to life. You can even drag and drop screenshots into it and it can generate code from that which resembles the screenshotted website. It's kind of scary how much easier it is to write code in Cursor, when it works that is. I've run into enough issues during this tutorial I've been working on that I've seen where Cursor can come up short. An AI can get you 75 percent of the way there, but not all the way all of the time. There's this new diet I've been on since January, too. It's called the Mayo Clinic diet, and it's got me eating much healthier now. I haven't lost any weight yet because I've been cheating and eating bread, but the recipes are good mostly. There have been a couple of stinkers I've run across but overall it's been a positive experience. At home I have some chicken in the fridge I made yesterday that's going to be tomorrow's dinner. I have to find a vegetable to go with it though. If I stick with it long enough I might even lose some of the padding I have around my waist. We'll see...

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