easiest one to get going with is to add the Playwright MCP. As a python dev you might have used it to do test automation? Anyway, it gives your tool eg Cursor, Claude Code access to the browser and automation using playwright. Meaning it can literally load a page to confirm its own change just had the desired effect.
The blender one is also fun as a starting point, if you do any 3d modelling (or even if you don't).
So what about flight searches where we have to query several 3rd party providers, and can take 45 seconds to get results from all of them (out of my control). I can dynamically update the page (and do) but a scraper would have to wait 20-45 seconds to get the 'cheapest' flight from my site. I can add async the queries and have the fastest pipes, but if the upstream providers take their time (they need to query their GDSs as well), there's not much you can do.
Oof, reminds me of the data pipelines I maintain that pull data from Salesforce. I've optimized the heck out of all of our internal database queries and they're blazing fast. Then my pipeline has to wait patiently for the SOQL response.
Basically a test of putting guard rails around format and content of a website and seeing how much I could automatically generate on a topic of interest to myself.
Biggest benefit I've seen with cursor is to write tests for everything. Far too mcuh content hallucination, or made up links at first, but once you put in some test guardrails you can minimise this.
I played with Kepler GL a couple of years ago to visualise the Canterbury quakes. It's kinda phenomenal to see how frequent the little ones are, and the aftershocks from big ones take a while to drop off...
Unless I'm mistaken, the article says drug overdoses is a leading cause of deaths in that category.
1) That's not THE leading, necessarily
2) only 70% of those drug cases were from fentanyl.
It's a hell of a drug and a hell of an epidemic, but if my reading is correct, let's keep headlines more accurate.
Been claiming this for years - been to 3 total eclipses and found it weird how the clouds seemed to almost make way for it. Nice to see some science behind it.
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