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Run Ox Alpha in Claude Code without touching your Claude subscription

Ox Alpha showed up on OpenRouter on 20 August with no author attached to it. Nobody has confirmed which lab built it — community fingerprinting poin…

10 VS Code snippets essential for every Python developer

Why use snippets in the era of AI agents? Modern AI tools can generate Python code at an impressive speed. Scaffolding APIs, generating test suites,…

macOS: Open Files and Folders in VS Code from Finder

You probably already know that you can open the current directory in Visual Studio Code from Terminal with: code . That works well when you're alrea…

Testing Next.js App Router API Routes Without Leaving Your Editor

If you work with Next.js, you know this routine. Write an API route, switch to Postman or Thunder Client, rebuild the request, test it, then jump ba…

I Built an AI Code Reviewer. Then OWASP Broke It.

Most AI coding tools are very good at helping developers write code . But I wanted to explore a different question: Can AI help developers find the…

The Twenty-Hour Fuse

Two nights of debugging, one incident left to write about. The night of August 14th, a Claude Code session hung for an hour inside the VS Code exten…

Two Clocks, Neither Lying

The night of August 14th, Claude Code was planning me a trip. An eight-day itinerary — not code, just travel planning — running in the VS Code exten…

Cline After 5 Months: The Free VS Code AI Agent That Isn't Actually Free

Disclosure: This article contains affiliate links. We may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. It never changes our rankings — we only make mo…

I Audited My VS Code Setup for 2026. Here's What I Deleted, Added, and Why.

I clocked my VS Code startup time: 4.2 seconds . That's with 34 extensions installed, 11 of which I hadn't touched in six months. So I ran a full au…

Why I Stopped Waiting on Ruby LSP and Built My Own Fuzzy Symbol Search for VS Code

If you've worked in a mid-to-large Rails codebase in VS Code, you've probably run into this: you want to jump to a method, you hit Ctrl/Cmd+T, you t…

I Got Tired of AI Agents Breaking My System Contracts, So I Built Something to Stop It

Okay, story time. If you've worked on a full stack app where the backend is Java/Spring Boot and the frontend is React, you know the drill. Someone…

Critical One-Click RCE Flaw Exposes VS Code and Cursor Users to Remote Code Execution

Cursor, VS Code, and Antigravity are the best AI editors most of us have ever used. Here's the new 1-click RCE bug, and what to do about it today. T…

I Built a VS Code Extension, I would like your feedback!

Welcome to my first post! If you write React and TypeScript regularly, you probably already know the feeling: you know how to write a useState + use…

IntelliJ IDEA Goes LSP: Java and Kotlin Intelligence Comes to VS Code, Cursor, and Agentic Flows

Deploying code-server for VS Code on Ubuntu 24.04

code-server is the open-source project that runs full VS Code including extensions, integrated terminal, Git, IntelliSense — on a remote server, acc…

Protect your application from npm supply chain attacks with tinyNpm!

tinyNpm is a vs code extension that helps protect you from supply chain attacks, stale packages, and bloated code! I had been using package.json ver…

My theme build fails if any color misses WCAG contrast — here's the pipeline

Korean temples and palaces have been painted with the same mineral pigment system — dancheong (단청) — for about 1,500 years. Deep indigo woodwork, ci…

Doggy_Tinder

I am trying to make a Doggy Tinder style Python app thing using python on VSCode. I have had a few issues like an image no appearing and what not so…

🚀 I Built a VS Code Extension for Game Developers to Preview Sprites, Spine & GLTF Models Without Leaving the Editor

If you've worked on a game or an interactive web project, you've probably experienced this workflow: Open Aseprite to check a sprite sheet. Open Spi…

Google Sheets in VS Code, Cursor, and Windsurf over MCP

Half the data I need while coding does not live in the repo. Seed rows, the pricing table, a small feature-flag list, the copy a non-technical teamm…

I built a local-only VS Code extension for generating Angular TestBed specs

Angular component tests often start with the same chores: configure TestBed import the component provide shallow dependency stubs set required input…

MergeForge: Resolve Git Conflicts in VS Code or Cursor Like in JetBrains

Tired of squinting at VS Code’s stacked merge editor? MergeForge brings a JetBrains-style three-pane conflict resolver to VS Code and Cursor — and p…

VS Code Shortcuts Every Developer Should Know

Hey devs! If you're still clicking through menus and dragging lines of code around in VS Code, you're wasting time you don't even realize you're los…

You're not as smart as you think you are

Nobody sets out to ship a SQL injection. Nobody opens their editor thinking "today I'll hardcode a secret." It happens because, in the moment, you w…

Technical debt isn't debt. That's the problem

"Technical debt" is the most comforting lie in software engineering. It's a financial metaphor borrowed to make a bad decision sound like a strategi…

I built a VS Code extension that reads your code aloud and narrates git diffs with AI

I do a lot of doc-heavy and review-heavy work, and I kept losing time re-reading dense markdown and PRs instead of just listening to them. "Just use…

10 VS Code snippets essential for every C++ engineer

Why use snippets in the era of AI agents? AI can generate code faster than ever. A single prompt can produce entire classes, build files or test sui…

Taming the Python and VS Code Workspace Environment

The Setup Blueprint Constructing a reliable Python pipeline in VS Code requires anchoring the system with isolated environments. After deploying the…

Introducing OrBit: A Local-First Workspace Synchronization Engine for Developers

As developers , we often face challenges keeping our workspaces perfectly synchronized across devices and collaborators. Whether it’s dealing with s…

Benchmarking Mitii AI Agent: 78% Success Rate on 500+ Tasks Using a Local Qwen3-Coder (30B)

Building an AI agent that doesn't just confidently hallucinate but actually writes safe, reliable code is a massive challenge. It is an even bigger…