Shiv’s Notes | Welcome to Shiv’s Notes. I usually post instructions about tools and commands I use frequently, and sometimes other stuff. Topics are usually related to software development with emphasis on setting up a productive development environment.

Posts

Apr 29, 2025
Chrome Extension that could make you Insanely Productive
Apr 29, 2025
Using Dev Containers with Docker Compose in Cursor
Apr 29, 2025
How to highlight control characters in Cursor
Apr 29, 2025
How to specify recommended extensions in your Cursor Project
Apr 22, 2025
How to Use Mac's Option Key as Alt Key in Cursor Terminal
Apr 21, 2025
TypeScript Linting and Formatting in Cursor
Apr 21, 2025
TypeScript configuration best practices
Apr 20, 2025
Simple TypeScript Node.js project setup
Feb 9, 2025
Setting up Elasticsearch for Local Development
Feb 8, 2025
Deep dive into LLMs like ChatGPT (Andrej Karpathy)
Feb 7, 2025
Run anything as a Docker container
Feb 7, 2025
A new way to setup Python projects (Poetry)
Feb 7, 2025
Mapping CapsLock to Control
Feb 7, 2025
Harden Cloud Linux Server
Feb 7, 2025
Better Whitespace Etiquettes
Oct 7, 2024
Better Defaults for Terminal App
Sep 11, 2024
Set up Python, Ruby or Nodejs on macOS
Aug 10, 2024
Better Defaults iTerm 2