Darren Beale's Web Log

How to give Cursor AI the current date & time

Bealers — Wed, 09 Oct 2024 12:13:05 +0000

If I’m using Cursor to help me scaffold out a new app, it sometimes creates Laravel migration files with the filename , which is annoying, to say the least. This is because it doesn’t know the current date or time, so as a quick hack until – I assume – they add it as a feature, I’m using a free API that returns a JSON representation of the current date and time. Here is Europe/London…

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Sending Slack messages from Laravel console commands

Bealers — Thu, 26 Sep 2024 10:20:57 +0000

I recently struggled to get my Laravel 11 app to send messages to a Slack notification channel. My first confusion was that the docs refer to making the relevant model class and sending the notification that way. Which wasn’t relevant to my use case as I wanted to send it from a utility command. Googling – or, erm, maybe it was Claude – came up with this route method…

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Replicating Roam’s /tomorrow command in Obsidian

Bealers — Tue, 20 Feb 2024 17:22:22 +0000

Roam Research‘s fabulous note taking app (Roam) was my daily PKM driver for a few years. Roam introduces the concept of daily notes for journaling but the real power is the way that it surfaces linked mentions. These are game changers for allowing the information captured within your system to bubble to the surface. I am forever thankful to Roam for introducing me to linked mentions.

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Fix Virtualbox Symlinks in Guest share on Windows host

Bealers — Thu, 17 Sep 2020 20:23:40 +0000

Note to self In my [[Windows 10 dev environment]] I have a shared folder between the host machine (my laptop) and the guest VM. The ability to create symlinks within the guest is disabled by default in Virtualbox because security. These steps work to fix that. Add this to Set gitbash to run as admin right-click and set it to run as administrator (compatibility…

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The Importance of Reminders in my Trusted System

Bealers — Thu, 18 Jul 2019 12:17:12 +0000

I have a sieve for a brain. I can forget things easily. Really easily. I blame this on my A.D.D, my general anxiety and some weapons grade hedonism in my early twenties. There is so much stuff whizzing around inside my head at all times; it is an utter mess in there. Recall is a real problem. This is why a Trusted System is so important for me to even attempt to get stuff done.

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Bloody Freezing – Week(ish) notes 1

Bealers — Fri, 09 Feb 2018 08:17:26 +0000

As threatened in my end of year review I’m giving the weekly notes format a trial. Admittedly the term ‘week notes’ is not overly accurate given it’s early Feb as I write this but “Notable stuff since the last time I posted” doesn’t roll off the tongue as well. After a lazy and over-indulgent Christmas I took a few weeks to get back into the swing of my training. This was intentional as…

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Geek Runners 2018

Bealers — Tue, 30 Jan 2018 15:23:08 +0000

A bunch of geeks who work in digital and who also like to run will be entering the May the 4th be with you trail race on, erm, May 4th 2018. It will be held on the stunning Shropshire Hills, kicking off from Carding Mill Valley. The night before I’ll be curating a Shropgeek evening themed loosely around endurance sports, technology and the great outdoors. We have three superb talks lined up…

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2017 in Review

Bealers — Wed, 17 Jan 2018 14:22:30 +0000

Welcome to my third retrospective in four years. I didn’t bother writing one of these for 2015 as I was glad to see the back of the year, but in hindsight I regret not doing so as it was a formative time for my re-invented business and it is useful to be able to look back and see how one has grown or changed. I also really enjoy reading other people’s reviews, especially those of my…

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Flappy Bottles & Sweat

Bealers — Tue, 05 Sep 2017 18:03:38 +0000

Hello and welcome to autumn. As I said last week, to gain some writing momentum I’m going to simply share what I’ve learnt the previous week as well as anything else that seems relevant to running, fitness or health. I’m playing with the format and may even make it into a proper newsletter, but for now I’ll simply list a bunch of stuff under some headings. I hope something in here…

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On your marks…

Bealers — Fri, 25 Aug 2017 12:53:48 +0000

I’ve been meaning to start documenting my running & health journey more regularly but the usual trifecta of imposter syndrome, motivation and knowing what to write got the better of me. The thing I have been most self-conscious about is being another selfie and inspirational quote merchant who doesn’t add that much value. Given my sometimes very unmotivated mental state it felt hard to come…

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