Payload, Dokploy, and Cursor Quality of Life Updates

There hasn’t been much movement in Payload since the team took some time off to end the year. The Payload team did release version 3.70, though.

This version adds the ability to sort by multiple columns in the REST API using an array. Payload only supported string-based sorting for the REST API, so this version is a nice quality-of-life boost for those using REST rather than the Local API.

The team added new documentation for Lexical blocks. Now you can find better documentation with full examples demonstrating their usage and customization options. This is part of an ongoing effort to improve Payload’s documentation, so expect more changes like this in the future.

I explored Payload’s new modular dashboard feature in a video. I go over the configuration of the modular dashboard and show how to create widgets and fetch data in those widgets. Hope this helps get you started.

The Figma team is improving the UI of Figma Design and more. Their improved left navigation bar seeks to make it easier for you to move between assets, variables, and more.

They also updated their connection to Jira. Now supporting webhooks, teams can get instant design updates directly in Jira tickets with no extra configuration. This is only available for new links for now, but this new feature will roll out to existing linked files soon.

The Next.js team has not released any new minor versions. The Payload team did request a few changes necessary to make Payload CMS work with Next.js 16, so we should expect to see that support shortly.

The Dokploy team fixed one of my UI pet peeves with their platform in version 0.26.3. You can now switch environments from breadcrumbs. This wasn't something that ever turned me away from their platform, but it sure was annoying. The team released several more features and bug fixes, so be sure to check out the changelog to see if it’s worth your time to upgrade.

Oh boy. OpenAI introduced ChatGPT Health. So now you can send all your confidential health information to a company to train their AI. As you can tell, I’m not a fan of this new feature.

ChatGPT is not a doctor. It can’t diagnose you. It doesn’t know you. It can’t see you. I don’t trust this change with my life, which is exactly what you’re doing if you use this feature. If you use this feature, please keep your doctor in the loop, and please don’t use it to diagnose yourself like we’re tempted to do now with WebMD.

To mimic the warning that ChatGPT gives at the end of their Health chats, as well as their normal chats: ChatGPT can make mistakes—it can hallucinate—so please don’t take what it says as absolute truth.

For me? I’m not going to trust my health to a hallucination machine.

To their credit, they do say they don’t replace medical care, but I do wonder how many people are going to treat ChatGPT as their primary care physician. There are already too many people treating it as their resident everything-expert.

In other news, Elon Musk’s lawsuit against OpenAI switching to a for-profit model is cleared to go to a jury trial in March. I’ll keep an eye on yet another lawsuit.

Cursor hit the ground running with some new and improved CLI features and performance.

You can now use the agent models command, --list-models flag, or /models slash command to see all your available models and switch between them. This makes it quicker and easier to switch on the fly without complicated commands and context switching.

Using the /rules slash command allows you to create and edit rules from the CLI rather than Cursor’s GUI.

The last update from Cursor this week is the added ability to enable and disable MCP servers from the command line. Use the /mcp enable and /mcp disable commands to handle this.

There’s no new Railway news this week, as their team took time off over the New Year as well.

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