When Perplexity introduced Comet with a waitlist, I thought that was a bad business decision in this day and age where everyone is racing to be the first to market. But TRAE taught everyone that there’s always worse way to do things.

For context, TRAE is another VSCode clone with AI sprinkled on top, similar to Cursor and Windsurf, but they were back by ByteDance (the company behind TikTok) and that got everyone hyped. And for a while they gained a certain amount of cult following. Nothing like the kind of following Cursor or Windsurf have of course, they were quite late to market and initially they were only available on Mac. I used to say that in a world where Figma already gained absolute dominance, TRAE wanted to be Sketch. But they eventually released a Windows version and things started to pick up from there. They had a pretty generous Claude Sonnet rate limit for the free tier and ‘free’ always attract people. The rate limit is pretty hard though just like any other service with a free tier, couple with the fact that they still don’t have a working build for Linux, the platform with the largest amount of developer, means that TRAE remains a novelty of an editor: something people crawl back to at the end of the day when they hit the rate limit in Cursor, Windsurf or Gemini CLI.

But TRAE isn’t just a mere VSCode clone, it’s a clone backed by ByteDance, and that means they have to capital to push it forward, should they wanted to. And pushed forward they did. TREA recently launched version 2.0, marking a complete rebranding, moving away from the color Orange to a more technomatrix style Green color, and that’s not all. They’re also promising a whole new mode called SOLO, supposedly a complete all-in-one agentic mode that can do a lot more than just correcting your vibecode slops, it can also use the terminal, write documentations, use browser etc. And that got their followers losing their damn minds.

When people write docker instruction that makes use of docker run command without a detached flag.

Why is it annoying?

Say I SSH into a server, fire up a new service, wait for it to download all the necessary images and perquisites, got it all running nicely. Now all i want is to close the tunnel and go on doing other things. But no, you realize docker is still occupying your terminal. Closing the connection now would also kill the service you just launched. How stupid is that.

Sure it’d only take a few additional seconds to rerun it in detached mode, but that’s still an additional 15-20s of utterly wasted time. There’s no excuse to write instruction this poorly especially for a project with multi thousands users, and especially now that we can get a machine to write better instruction for you.

I just got back from my 7th, and definite last Year End Party with my company. Seeing so many people saying this will their last YEP with the company filled me with so much thoughts I couldn’t sleep, I had to get up at 5AM to write it down.

So where do we start? I guess we’ll take a quick look back at 2024.

2024 was a…pedicular year, for lack of a better word. There was so many new things to learn, and yet far fewer things to do.

I love Cursor as much as the next guy but there’s one thing I don’t like about it. When you install it on Windows or Mac, it will takeover the ‘code’ command in your terminal, which is usually reserved for VSCode (for example if you navigate to a folder and type code . it will open that folder in Cursor instead of VSCode). This is fine if you use Cursor exclusively but if you’re like me who uses Cursor and Cline side by side, then this is especially annoying when you want to launch code.

Luckily user ubergonmx from Cursor forum provided a solution on Windows, here’s how:

Open this folder %localappdata%\Programs\cursor\resources\app\bin

Delete:

• Code
• Code.cmd

That’s it. Now the code command will launch VSCode instead. If you look inside that folder you’d notice the file cursor and cursor.cmd are still there, which means if you want to launch cursor instead of code you can simply type cursor . , which is how it should’ve been.

That’s all folks