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What engineering blogs or posts have you enjoyed recently? Been a few months since it was last asked on HN and curious if anything has stood out this year so far.

Hey HN, curious to learn if anyone is using project management tools for their personal projects.

I’ve started using Linear to organize tasks in my projects with some success. It is a balancing act though, between keeping a project organized and not adding too much process or overhead where it becomes cumbersome.

Anyone else using workflows like this?

Hey HN! I'm Mike from FlyLoop (https://getflyloop.com). FlyLoop automates meeting scheduling for you, like your own executive assistant. You chat with FlyLoop in plain English to manage your calendar and schedule meetings with your teammates. Demo video: https://youtu.be/ODgHilaWvA0

I built FlyLoop because scheduling meetings has always been tedious and time-consuming. I've wasted a lot of time combing through my teammates’ calendars just to find a meeting slot - then I remember that someone is in a different time zone and have to start all over. Another big pain point has been the maintenance that comes with being the owner of a meeting. If one core participant can no longer make it, I’m stuck juggling calendars again to reschedule. It’s exhausting.

That’s what sparked the idea for FlyLoop - a tool that takes the hassle out of scheduling and is simple to use. FlyLoop is an AI agent that integrates with your team's messaging and calendar tools. Just tell FlyLoop things like:

- "Set up a 30 minute sync with John, Maria, and Angela next week."

- "Find the next available time for our engineering standup tomorrow."

- "Reschedule my afternoon calls on Friday, I'll be OOO."

- "What are some time slots I can meet with Katie and Mark early next week?"

FlyLoop creates meetings by looking up the schedule of each participant you want to add and finding availability that works for everyone. It can also modify existing meetings you own, such as renaming, rescheduling, and changing the participant list.

FlyLoop is currently in private beta, and we're looking to work closely with a few organizations to get feedback and refine the product before a public release. We currently integrate with Slack and Google Calendar, but we can prioritize adding support for other providers such as Teams/Outlook if folks are interested.

Our priority is to get early feedback, so we are pricing FlyLoop at cost to run the service for your team. We’ll create invoices based on your team’s usage, and as we grow, we plan to transition to a more standard per-seat pricing model.

If you’re interested in trying it out, please fill out this form to get beta access https://getflyloop.com/beta or email me at mike@getflyloop.com, and I can help answer any questions you may have.

Thank you for reading! We look forward to hearing your feedback.

Does anyone else use Cursor to edit multiple codebases using a single editor, and if so how's your experience been? I've been using Cursor to open a director with both a frontend and backend project in it and work on them simultaneously. I've found the context can get lost when it switches between the projects though, and I have to be diligent in adding the files I want to edit to the context window.

Curious if anyone has been using Cursor like this, and if you've found success with it? I think codebase rules could be helpful here, I'll be experimenting with that more.