Retro_Cursor -- Fun thoughts BBS pre-flight setup

So, I so often run into stupid issues attempting to make things on windows that really should be on linux, but Ive been too lazy…

However, since I have a very serious project I want to build, I have spent the day creating a bullet proof, pre_project setup… with a nifty menu retro bbs style menu…


So I have tasks to check for API statements in the .env, and then do API connection checks prior to installs.

Cairo and some other pythonsql things are a pain in the ■■■ - so I have a specific cairo checker.


Dry run checker to preflight all the stupid dependencies needed:



In another thread, we were talking about Mermaids coming from the bots, so I made a mermaid to svg converter - then, I have it do the option for “produce project diagram”

It creates the mermaid converts to svg and asks if you wanna see it in browser…

Ive already integrated ManiM into cursor so I can just say to the agent “give me a BLAH” of this - and it spits open an minim visualization window thats interactive… – (manim is the Cairo dep)

(first attempt at getting Manim such that I say “give me XYZ” to agent it calls manim and gives it to me:

(although its ability to draw in Manim so far is still messy: