---
title: "🪻 \"First we build the tools, then they build us.\" - Marshall McLuhan"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/first-we-build-the-tools-then-they-build-us---marshall-mcluhan-cskqxzf7c
source_url: https://buttondown.com/cassidoo/archive/first-we-build-the-tools-then-they-build-us/
type: article
source: "rendezvous"
published: 2025-07-14T08:09:37.632Z
updated: 2025-07-14T08:09:59.845Z
tags: ["ai", "webdev", "javascript", "css", "vim"]
reading_time: 3
upvotes: 1
comments: 0
language: en
---

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# 🪻 "First we build the tools, then they build us." - Marshall McLuhan

**[rendezvous](https://daily.dev/sources/rendezvous)** · 3 min read · 1 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

A developer newsletter featuring links to CSS intelligence and conditional functions, quantum internet developments, and AI coding tools. Includes a coding challenge about implementing Vim navigation commands to track cursor position in multi-line strings, plus community solution highlights from previous challenges.

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