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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 wer…
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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 strategic …
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 a…
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 suite…
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 e…
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 slo…
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 ch…
Stop Giving AI Agents Your Whole Laptop: Secure Them with Dev Containers
I recently started using Visual Studio Code Dev Containers with LLM coding agents and I thought to share it because, in my opinion, it is one of the s…
GitHub Copilot's enterprise managed-settings.json is now GA
GA in a sentence GitHub moved its enterprise managed-settings.json to general availability on July 1, giving GitHub Enterprise Cloud admins a single J…
7 Hidden VS Code Extensions That Feel Like Cheating
If you are still using a vanilla installation of VS Code, you are leaving massive amounts of productivity on the table. We all know the standard exten…
I found 10 bugs in my own security scanner. Here's what they taught me about false positives.
I found 10 bugs in my own security scanner. Here's what they taught me about false positives. I built a VS Code extension that scans code for leaked s…
Why Manual Test Cases Should Live in YAML
Most teams still treat manual test cases as rows in a SaaS database. That worked when cases were written slowly, reviewed rarely, and automation lived…
I Built a Free VS Code Extension for Odoo Developers 🐍
As an Odoo developer, I was tired of writing the same boilerplate code every single day. Every time I created a new model, I had to write: from odoo i…
Setting Up VS Code for Java Development
VS Code is the most popular code editor on the planet. It's fast, free, and runs everywhere. But out of the box, it knows nothing about Java. Open a .…
Share .ssh/config with your devcontainer
How to share your ~/.ssh/config with devcontainers The purpose is to enable using git with your provider directly from the devcontainer. The problem i…
Python Setup for Real Projects: VS Code, venv, pip and requirements.txt
Many Python beginners can write basic programs but get stuck when they try to run a real project on their own laptop. The issue is not always coding. …
I built a live secret scanner for VS Code (and why CI scanning is too late)
We've all done it: pasted an API key into a file "just to test," then a week later it's in your git history, a screenshot, or a livestream. Most secre…
10 AI Coding Tips That Actually Work (And How to Keep It Simple)
Feeling overwhelmed by the constant flood of new AI features, MCP servers, and agentic platforms? In a world full of tech noise, it's easy to get exha…
I built a visual .env manager for VS Code 🔐
The Problem Every developer deals with .env files daily — juggling secrets, switching between environments, and occasionally committing API keys by ac…
How I cut accessibility remediation time by 70% without leaving VS Code
The problem Every time I found an accessibility issue in a PR review, the same thing happened: tab out to the WCAG docs, figure out the right fix, com…
I Stopped Using Heavy IDEs. AI Became My IDE.
I used to think a serious developer needed a serious IDE. Big project? Open PhpStorm. Design work? Open Photoshop. Need every refactor, every inspecti…
I built a VS Code extension to stop wasting time copy-pasting code into AI
Every time I wanted AI help with my code, I'd spend five minutes copying files one by one into Claude or ChatGPT. By the time I'd pasted everything, I…
Fable 5 dropped and I'm suddenly a lot more paranoid about my VS Code extensions
Three days ago, Anthropic released Claude Fable 5 — their first publicly available Mythos-class model, sitting above the entire Opus tier. It benchmar…
My experience moving from GitLens to a simpler inline git blame tool.
Working heavily with Node.js, Vue, and TypeScript, my editor is usually doing enough heavy lifting as it is[cite: 1]. I'm pretty obsessive about keepi…
Designing Atlantico: a calm theme for focused development
I recently published Atlantico, a calm theme for Visual Studio Code and compatible editors, built around soft contrast, clear syntax roles, and a cohe…
I Built a VS Code Extension for Google's Antigravity CLI (Because I Refuse to Leave My Editor)
There's a pattern I've noticed with every new AI coding tool that comes out: they all want you to switch editors. Or open a new terminal. Or context-s…
Claude Code Workflows: The Plan Moves Out of Claude's Head and Into a Script You Can Edit
Subagents, skills, and agent teams all keep the plan in one place: Claude's head. Claude decides, turn by turn, what to spawn next, and every result h…