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:…
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…
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 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…
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,…
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…
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…
Learn how Antigravity Usage Intelligence lets you monitor token consumption, cache savings, and quotas in Google’s Antigravity IDE.
Figure: Example Antigravity Usage Intelligence dashboard in VS Code, showing token usage charts and quotas. For developers building with Google Anti…
Daxon: Bringing a Complete Data Intelligence Workspace Into VS Code
What if your data tools lived where you already write your code? We built Daxon to answer exactly that. Daxon is an all-in-one Data Intelligence &am…
Stop Shipping Architecture Diagrams That Cannot Be Verified
It is 3:00 AM, database connections are dropping, and the on-call engineer is staring at a diagram routing traffic through a cluster decommissioned…
I built a Jira client for VS Code that stays signed in (free tier, $19 one-time for Pro)
Every Jira shop I've worked in has the same little tax: a Jira tab you keep flipping to for the ticket number, the status, that one comment with the…
VSCode extension for browsing crypto files/vaults
Tired of using different command-line tools for different crypto files and password databases, I built a VS Code extension to keep everything inside…
Introducing Flame IDE 🔥: Multiple Projects, Parallel Branches, and AI Agents in One Workspace
Hi DEV! 👋 I’m the developer behind Flame IDE , a free desktop IDE for macOS, Windows, and Linux. I built Flame to bring my everyday development work…
Cline Under Load: Measuring Approval Latency, Context Cost, and Shipping Speed
The interesting problem Cline solves is not simply “write code with AI.” It turns an IDE into an execution loop: inspect the repository, propose a c…
Running the WUIC assistant on a local LLM: Ollama, an MCP server, and a free agentic VS Code
Our in-product RAG chatbot has two halves. The first is retrieval — hybrid BM25 + bge-m3 + a fine-tuned reranker, running locally as native .NET/ONN…
A translation tool built for developers: hover, comment replacement, terminal translation, Markdown mode
Context switching kills productivity — especially when you constantly translate docs, source comments, issues, and terminal errors. I’ve been using…
How to Use GitHub Codespaces in Google Antigravity IDE (and Manage Multiple Accounts)
If you use Google Antigravity IDE, Code-OSS, or any open-source editor, GitHub Codespaces has no native extension support. To solve this, I built an…
How a VS Code Debugger Actually Works: DAP, CDP, and a C# Debug Adapter
A practical look inside browser debugging—from pressing F5 in Visual Studio Code to controlling Chrome through the Debug Adapter Protocol and Chrome…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…