Dictating Code Comments and Commit Messages: A Practical Hands-Free Setup
I do not want to dictate code. Brackets, indentation, and symbol-heavy syntax are a bad fit for speech, and autocomplete already does a lot of that…
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Bind for 0.0.0.0:5432 failed: port is already allocated - find port clashes before you run docker compose up
docker compose up -d , and one container stays down: Bind for 0.0.0.0:5432 failed: port is already allocated Then npm run dev adds its own version:…
VeryCodedly This Week: Paramount's $110B Takeover, OpenAI Watermarks EU Text, Margaret Hamilton Dies + More
It’s a new week, and shockingly, more stuff managed to happen. Here’s what we picked for you. Paramount Completes WBD Takeover Skydance is live. Par…
Managing AI Agents on a Remote Devbox
TL;DR: Running autonomous AI coding agents across local terminal tabs and desktop apps drops running tasks whenever your laptop sleeps, and scatters…
I Wanted to Comment Directly on AI-Written Documents, So I Built a VS Code Extension
Introducing Agentic HTML Visual Editor, a VS Code extension for reading and editing documents written by AI agents, and exchanging feedback through…
Cheat Sheet for Your First Open Source Contribution
Making your first open source contribution is intimidating. Honestly, it’s rarely the code that holds people back—it’s usually the fear of messing u…
Safely Pruning Dead Code and Dangling Imports with AST Transforms
Deleting obsolete code manually is tedious. You delete the function body, then delete the export statement, run tests, see an unused import warning,…
The "DB_PASSWORD" variable is not set. Defaulting to a blank string: fixing unset ${VAR} in Docker Compose
WARN[0000] The "DB_PASSWORD" variable is not set. Defaulting to a blank string. Compose prints that, then starts the stack anyway. The database exit…
I built a VS Code extension for working with remote servers without VS Code Server
I've been working on a VS Code extension called Remote Edit for the past few months. It began as a way to work with FTP/SFTP from inside VS Code, an…
claude code token optimizer vscode extension
TL;DR I built a vscode extension that reads the session transcripts claude code already writes to ~/.claude/projects/ and turns them into a dashboar…
I forked Text Marker (VS Code) to remove telemetry, add async matching, and persistent auto-save — Text Marker Plus
Hey all — I've been using Text Marker for persistent, multi-color highlighting for a long time. My code-reading sessions often stretch over several…
Iam 12 . I Stopped Coding Features and Started Designing Experiences. Here Is KODA cursor v0.4.0.
I am 12 years old. My development machine is a POCO C55 ($150 USD). It is December 2nd. Yesterday, I shipped v0.3.1. It worked. But it felt like a p…
How TokenCap Extracts Component Hierarchies and Props Flow from JSX and SFCs
Frontend codebases are notoriously difficult for AI coding assistants. While backend files have clear import/export hierarchies, modern frontends re…
How I built a VS Code extension that draws Railroad diagrams for regex and catches ReDoS
It started with frustration. I write code every day. And every time I need a regex more complex than \d+, the same thing happens: I open my browser,…
Preview MUI icons directly in VS Code with MUI Icon Preview
If you use Material UI icons in a React/Next project, you’ve probably searched for an icon name just to check what it looks like. I built MUI Icon P…
Change Tours | Because understanding a code change is hard
Project available at https://github.com/hannahpotter/changetours-vscode-pull-request-github Comments
I Built a Security Workbench for Flutter. Now I Want Developers to Break It.
I have spent a lot of time building Aqiron Security. Then I realized something uncomfortable: I know how it behaves on my machine. I don't know how…
I Built a VS Code Extension to Paste Your Project into Free Chatbots and Apply the Diffs in One Click! 🔥
Let me show exactly how it works with an example 🛻 The extension adds a new "ReptClip" tab in the VS Code bottom panel: I am going to use this exten…
Cursor: fix 'Waiting for extension host' hang
Cursor stuck on "Waiting for extension host"? Extensions dead, AI panel spinning, Git features gone? Work through this list top to bottom. The first…
I Made a VS Code Extension to Copy Your Repo to Your Clipboard as Clean Markdown Context for Your Chatbot
The UI: An example output: # Project structure ``` .gitattributes .gitignore AGENTS.md CONTRIBUTING.md LICENSE README.md assets/preview.webp docs/me…
For VS Code lovers, you can have a colored border and more from now...
I keep 5-10 VS Code windows open across different repos/worktrees, and Alt-Tab / the taskbar show the same icon for all of them. So I built vscode-b…
10 VS Code Extensions I Can't Code Without in 2026
Every "best VS Code extensions" list is the same 30 icons with a one-line blurb. This isn't that. A few months ago my Extensions panel had crept pas…
Stop copy-pasting files one by one into ChatGPT / Claude / Copilot. There's a faster way.
Stop copy-pasting files one by one into ChatGPT / Claude / Copilot. There's a faster way. Just published Code Merge — a VS Code extension I built. S…
I Turned My Editor Into a Pokémon World That Levels Up When I Actually Ship
Repo: https://github.com/UribeJr/pokedev Most editor pets are wallpaper. Cute? Sure. Connected to the work you’re already doing? Not really. So I bu…
What Is Playwright? Install It in VS Code with Python (Beginner Guide)
Playwright is a modern browser automation and end-to-end testing tool. It lets you control Chromium, Firefox, and WebKit using code. If you are usin…
Benchmarking affaan-m/ECC in Cursor: Agent Harness Rules Without Context Exhaustion
When evaluating affaan-m/ECC (v2.0, The Agent Harness Operating System ), the main attraction is standardization. Instead of manually copying fragme…
VS Code ignored my MCP config for an hour and never said a word
I spent an hour last week convinced my MCP server was down. It wasn't. VS Code had read my config file, found nothing it recognised, and said nothin…
Code Dictator vs Wispr Flow vs Claude Code vs Copilot CLI: Free Voice Dictation for AI Coding in VS Code
Voice input for AI coding assistants got crowded fast in 2026. If you're picking a tool, here's a direct, feature-level comparison — including where…
5 Microsoft Tutorials: Copilot Model Swapping, DeepSeek on Azure, Rust, .NET 10 RC, AI Agents
This week's Microsoft-ecosystem signal splits into two buckets: AI plumbing you can wire up in an afternoon (model routing, serving open-weight mode…
I wanted JetBrains-style Git in VS Code, so we built Git Brain 🧠
TL;DR for humans and robots 🤖 Git Brain is a visual Git GUI for VS Code, Cursor and other VS Code-compatible IDEs. It's designed as a JetBrains-styl…