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Submission + - Cursor for LibreOffice Week 2 & 3 (AI agents and voice) (keithcu.com)

Submitted by KeithCu on Tuesday March 17, 2026 @11:17PM

KeithCu writes: I’ve been calling this project Cursor for LibreOffice to myself, but I knew I couldn’t use the name forever, so I researched and chose WriterAgent. It supports Calc, and Draw as well, but I didn’t like OfficeAgent, which sounds like some Soviet-era KGB job title. Last week’s post was how I took John Balis’s clean little Localwriter and bolted on threading, tool-calling, chat, and enough other stuff that it started to feel like a powerful chatbox inside LibreOffice.

Submission + - Building Cursor for LibreOffice: A Week-Long Journey (keithcu.com)

Submitted by KeithCu on Saturday March 07, 2026 @02:47PM

KeithCu writes: How I turned John Balis’s localwriter, and code from LibreCalc AI and LibreOffice-MCP, into one unified, optimized extension in a week.

Submission + - 1+ Year Running Arch Linux on a Lenovo Yoga 2 (keithcu.com)

Submitted by KeithCu on Tuesday April 07, 2015 @05:07PM

KeithCu writes: Other than the hardware-specific issues, I’ve been amazed by how well Arch Linux works, given that it doesn’t have release cycles, or a big team with a lot of money supporting and marketing it. I’ve heard only 30 developers maintain the core Arch packages, with most of them having a full-time job doing something else! At the same time, it shouldn’t be a total surprise things work so well because free software doesn’t just fall off a turnip truck:

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