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Phillip A. WesselsMay 26, 2026 • 10 min read

Commanding the Command Line

You may experience some emotions of trepidation when staring at the empty prompt in the...

#terminal#bash#wsl#vscode

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How I Escaped Claude & Cursor Limits: The Ultimate Free Local AI Coding Setup with Ollama + Continue.dev (2026 Guide)

David BilsonMay 26, 2026 • 4 min read

How I Escaped Claude & Cursor Limits: The Ultimate Free Local AI Coding Setup with Ollama + Continue.dev (2026 Guide)

As a developer, I got tired of waiting 5 days for Claude resets and burning through Cursor’s $20...

#ai#vscode#llm#programming

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Building Marksmith: lessons from making Markdown bearable in VS Code

Im WoojinMay 24, 2026 • 4 min read

Building Marksmith: lessons from making Markdown bearable in VS Code

I'll start with the moment that pushed me to build this. I was editing a 1,200-line README. Spotted...

#vscode#markdown#llm#showdev

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Ambastha Diagrams: A Beta Tool for Easy Diagramming in VS Code

Sudhanshu AmbasthaMay 26, 2026 • 2 min read

Ambastha Diagrams: A Beta Tool for Easy Diagramming in VS Code

We've all been there: you’re in a classroom, a lab, or on a sandboxed device where you can't install...

#productivity#visualization#javascript#vscode

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Phillip A. WesselsMay 26, 2026 • 4 min read

Using the Terminal in VS Code

VS Code is technically an editor, not a full IDE (Integrated Development Environment). Unlike IDEs.....

#terminal#vscode#bash#mentoring

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Building My AI-Powered VS Code Extension 🚀

Zuned KhanMay 23, 2026 • 2 min read

Building My AI-Powered VS Code Extension 🚀

For the Finish Up-A-Thon, I worked on an AI-powered VS Code extension focused on improving developer...

#vscode#ai#javascript#react

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I Built My First VS Code Extension — A Sound Alert for Failed Terminal Commands

raghul-techMay 24, 2026 • 2 min read

I Built My First VS Code Extension — A Sound Alert for Failed Terminal Commands

The Problem I run a lot of long terminal commands — builds, test suites, Docker...

#vscode#typescript#opensource#devtools

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Firmware Calculations Are Invisible — So I Built CalcDocs for VS Code

Gian Michele PasinelliMay 27, 2026 • 3 min read

Firmware Calculations Are Invisible — So I Built CalcDocs for VS Code

Every embedded project eventually accumulates “hidden math”. Not complex algorithms. Just hundreds...

#vscode#productivity#c#firmware

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I Gave 13 LLMs the Same Codebase and Asked for a Specification. Six Ran on My Laptop.

Thomas LandgrafMay 25, 2026 • 9 min read

I Gave 13 LLMs the Same Codebase and Asked for a Specification. Six Ran on My Laptop.

There are benchmarks for code an LLM writes. HumanEval, MBPP, SWE-Bench, LiveCodeBench. There are no...

#ai#vscode#programming#markdown

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Architectural Collapse: How Extension Poisoning, Node Vulnerabilities, and Infrastructure Fog Enabled the GitHub Repository Breach

Akash LomasMay 25, 2026 • 5 min read

Architectural Collapse: How Extension Poisoning, Node Vulnerabilities, and Infrastructure Fog Enabled the GitHub Repository Breach

Enterprise perimeter defenses are fundamentally built on an obsolete assumption that, the developer'...

#vulnerabilities#github#vscode#npm

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VS Code Now Credits Copilot on Every Commit by Default

ArthurMay 22, 2026 • 6 min read

VS Code Now Credits Copilot on Every Commit by Default

There's a one-line pull request open against microsoft/vscode. It changes the default value of a set...

#vscode#microsoft#githubcopilot#git

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I built an audit-friendly SQLite viewer for VSCode because I stopped trusting marketplace extensions

MarioloezMay 22, 2026 • 5 min read

I built an audit-friendly SQLite viewer for VSCode because I stopped trusting marketplace extensions

Atalaya — Spanish for "watchtower". A high vantage point with a clear view over the territory...

#database#security#showdev#vscode

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The Day GitHub Fell: Inside the 3,800-Repository Leak That Started With a VS Code Extension

xu xuMay 22, 2026 • 6 min read

The Day GitHub Fell: Inside the 3,800-Repository Leak That Started With a VS Code Extension

Your VS Code just installed a new extension. 50,000 downloads, 4.7 stars, a GitHub repo with clean.....

#security#github#devrel#vscode

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Cursor Review 2026 — Honest 'Not For Me' Take From a VSCode User

Ravi PatelMay 25, 2026 • 6 min read

Cursor Review 2026 — Honest 'Not For Me' Take From a VSCode User

Why I didn't stick with Cursor — and why that's a recommendation, not a complaint. Honest review fro...

#cursor#vscode#aicodingtools#toolreview

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Studio Violin - Helmholtz bowed string · H2 correction · Stradivari body EQ · Sympathetic resonance · Physical modelling

Gary Doman/TizWildinMay 24, 2026 • 3 min read

Studio Violin - Helmholtz bowed string · H2 correction · Stradivari body EQ · Sympathetic resonance · Physical modelling

Studio Violin Helmholtz bowed string · H2 correction · Stradivari body EQ · Sympathetic resonance ·....

#vscode#programming#dsp#productivity

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How I Boosted My Productivity by 10x Using Claude Code (Opening the Black Box)

Özgür KurucanMay 24, 2026 • 3 min read

How I Boosted My Productivity by 10x Using Claude Code (Opening the Black Box)

Since autonomous AI agents entered our lives, software development workflows have changed radically....

#opensource#ai#vscode#devtools

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Windsurf vs Cursor 2026: The $250M Acquisition Changes Everything

The Dev BriefMay 25, 2026 • 3 min read

Windsurf vs Cursor 2026: The $250M Acquisition Changes Everything

Windsurf vs Cursor 2026 looks completely different after Cognition AI's $250M acquisition of...

#ai#webdev#productivity#vscode

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I built a VSCode extension that visualises your code navigation as a call tree — made for legacy codebase pain

breadkrumbMay 25, 2026 • 1 min read

I built a VSCode extension that visualises your code navigation as a call tree — made for legacy codebase pain

Been working on legacy Angular codebases for 2+ years and constantly losing track of where I am when...

#productivity#showdev#tooling#vscode

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I Built ShellReq - A Native API Client for VS Code & Terminal

Mahesh ShindeMay 25, 2026 • 2 min read

I Built ShellReq - A Native API Client for VS Code & Terminal

ShellReq - Native API Client for VS Code & Terminal A lightweight, native API testing...

#opensource#vscode#typescript#npm

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Phillip A. WesselsMay 26, 2026 • 5 min read

Using VS Code with WSL

Note: This guide is for Windows only. If you're on macOS, you are already living in Unix in VS Code,...

#vscode#wsl#mentoring

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From Copilot to Cursor to Claude Code for VS Code: My Journey to the Optimal Setup

QuoLuMay 22, 2026 • 5 min read

From Copilot to Cursor to Claude Code for VS Code: My Journey to the Optimal Setup

There is a flood of AI coding tools. GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Claude Code, Cline, Continue... There a...

#claudecode#vscode#cursor#githubcopilot

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Streamlining Workflows with a MIDI Controller: Efficient Multitasking

Patrick HannahMay 25, 2026 • 3 min read

Streamlining Workflows with a MIDI Controller: Efficient Multitasking

Explore how integrating a MIDI controller with Kiro can streamline your multitasking workflow, ensur...

#midicontroller#kiro#claude#vscode

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We Got Flagged in a SOX Audit Because of Code Comments. So We Built a VS Code Extension

Diego PabloMay 24, 2026 • 4 min read

We Got Flagged in a SOX Audit Because of Code Comments. So We Built a VS Code Extension

How we automated compliance-grade documentation for regulated-industry codebases — and what we...

#vscode#fintech#heathtech#devtools

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BugBench: a developer origin story and practical guide for VS Code / Kiro users

Simphiwe TwalaMay 25, 2026 • 4 min read

BugBench: a developer origin story and practical guide for VS Code / Kiro users

A short origin: BugBench began as a scrappy NetBeans plugin, matured into CodeRef for IntelliJ with ...

#showdev#testing#tooling#vscode

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