LinksDecember 2025
Use a CMS instead of building one(www.sanity.io)
There's been some "drama" about the Cursor company site. Apparently, they've removed their headless CMS integration to manage their content from within in their repo in the future.
That's a bold move and I don't think it's a good one. The Sanity folks responded and shared tons of very good arguments for using a CMS.
Disclaimer: I used to work for Contentful for multiple years, so I'm obviously biased here...
VS Code without tracking/telemetry(vscodium.com)
VS Code is a fairly complex project used by millions (?) of people. I haven't worked on a project of this scale yet, but I know that getting error reports is painful because there are high chances that your product just dies on another machine and nobody tells you about it. For error monitoring, I see clear value in software "calling home".
I do understand people not liking this for privacy reasons, though. Maybe VS Codium is something for you if you like using VS Code but would like to have it without telemetry and tracking.