Getting MCP, Cursor, and WSL playing together [Updated 25/04/2025]
For weeks I've been trying to get MCPs working in cursor on my windows laptop, where my code is running in WSL. I've cracked it, thanks to a friendly person on Reddit.
I like reading Luca Restagno's newsletter, as he always has something interesting to say.
In this issue, he talks about coding week/marketing week, which is an approach to help us dev-centric people actually start to market the things we build.
He shares one great bit of advice:
Create two boards using Notion, Trello, or whatever you prefer.
One product board, and one marketing board. Keep them separated.
This way when you’re on one of the two weeks, you open the specific board and you know exactly what to work on.
For weeks I've been trying to get MCPs working in cursor on my windows laptop, where my code is running in WSL. I've cracked it, thanks to a friendly person on Reddit.
I've recently started expanding my usage of Cursor to let it run commands, tests, etc and fix it's own issues. Here's my experience.
I'm loving AI. Not for greating huge apps, but those little time-saving tools. Here's an example....