Building a Universal Drafts System in a VS Code Extension — Part 2: Sync, UI & Remote Drafts
In Part 1 , we built the Draft type, DraftsService , and the save/upsert flow. Now for the interesting parts: loading a draft, keeping the Markdown ed…
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VS Code Remote SSH: Automatically Invoke VS Code as Your Editor from External Terminals
The Problem to Solve VS Code Remote (SSH) is powerful, but there are situations where you want to handle terminal operations in your favorite external…
I got tired of searching my shell history, so I built QuickRun.
We all do it. Typing the same commands every day, continuously asking Google or a colleague on Slack for the 100th time how that one specific command …
I Built a VS Code Extension That Solves One of the Most Frustrating Problems in AI-Assisted Development
A few weeks ago I was debugging an auth issue with Claude Code. 45 minutes in, credits ran out mid-sentence. I switched to Gemini and had to explain e…
I built a VS Code extension in 3 days because copy-pasting into ChatGPT was annoying
Three days ago I was sitting on yet another ChatGPT session, spending more time explaining where my code lives than actually asking the question. Not …
I got tired of copying code into ChatGPT — so I built a VS Code extension
If you’ve ever tried to use ChatGPT or Claude with a real project, you probably know the pain. You don’t just copy a snippet — you need context. Then …
I built a VS Code extension that scaffolds React Native MVVM features in one command
Every React Native developer knows this ritual. You need a new screen. So you open an existing feature folder, copy the files, rename them one by one,…
AI Coding Tools Have a Context Problem — Here's the Fix
The Wrong Unit of Context Most AI coding tools work at the file level . That's fine for a React component. A component is self-contained — the context…
Go Templates Snippets for VSCode
I started learning how to use Go templates about a year ago and I found it arduous to stressful to type syntax like {{ block "name" pipeline }} in ful…
Visualize Function Call Graphs Interactively in VS Code — Call Graph Navi (Personal Project)
Introduction I built a VS Code extension that lets you interactively visualize function calls. It is not just a graph renderer; I focused especially o…
I Built a VS Code Extension That Validates VAST XML as You Type
If you work in ad tech you've probably seen VAST XML. It's the IAB standard that carries every video and CTV ad impression: the tag that tells a playe…
Supercharge AWS Diagrams in VSCode with Mermaid and Custom Icons
Want to turn your architecture docs into visual gold? With the new Mermaid.js architecture diagram syntax and custom icon packs, you can create AWS di…
How We Built a Chat Layer for GitHub Right Inside VS Code
Pair-coding with someone in the same repo, every chat ping forces an alt-tab. Discord on one monitor. Slack on another. PR comments in a browser tab. …
How to Set Up a Local AI Coding Assistant That Actually Works
The AI coding assistant landscape keeps shifting. Names change, products get reshuffled, pricing tiers evolve. If you're tired of depending on cloud-h…
I built a bug reporting system into my VS Code extension — here's how it works
One thing I learned early while building CIPHER-Local — a VS Code extension that indexes your codebase and serves code intelligence to AI assistants v…
Generate a Puppet Module Using GitHub Copilot and VS Code
This tutorial shows how to use GitHub Copilot with the Puppet Model Context Protocol (MCP) server to generate, validate, and refine a Puppet module—ev…
JSON to TypeScript: Generate Types in 5 Seconds
JSON to TypeScript: Generate Types in 5 Seconds Published on : Dev.to Tags : #typescript #vscode #productivity #code-generation #extension Reading tim…