Mike Alche ☀️ (@mike_alche) on X

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I just made a utility tool to better learn how big projects got made🛠️ For example, Next.js right now is huge and daunting. But if you go to the first commit ever, it's not that hard to see what was being done and what was the intention. The tool lets you easily step forward in time with the <- and -> arrows. You can press 'd' for diff mode where it'll grab the diffs between commits and apply it as changes so that you can easily see the changes in VSCode or

@cursor_ai

In the video example below I take the

@nextjs

repo and step through it in time to see which decisions were taken. I use the "changes" view in cursor to get a good diff view