Issue #139  (Visualizing JSON Structures)12/18/24

As we approach the end of the year, the intro tip will be on hiatus until early January. The next two issues will feature the most popular links of the year, so if you've only been subscribed for a short time, you'll get a good indication of what links people clicked throughout 2024.

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Now on to this week's hand-picked links!

VS Code Tools

JSON Tree Visualizer — A VS Code extension that allows you to visualize JSON structures as an interactive tree directly in the editor, useful for working with complex JSON data.

Qwik Docs — A platform with VS Code extension to integrate your documentation flow with VS Code, to make documenting code a habit, and the ability to transfer knowledge to tools like Confluence or Notion.

Deploy Database in 60 Sec with Visual Backend Tool — Experience the power of Xano's no-code visual backend solutions and join over 80,000 users in revolutionizing your development process. Try it out for free today.   Sponsor 

KeyRunner — A VS Code extension for secure testing and handling of APIs with features like focus on encrypting data at rest, masking sensitive data on UI, and enabling local storage and execution of requests.

VS Code Articles & Videos

VS Code 1.96 (November 2024 Updates) — The latest updates to VS Code include overtype mode, import on paste, ligatures in terminal, Copilot debugging, and more.

📺 Get to Know GitHub Copilot in VS Code and be Productive Immediately — From the VS Code YouTube, this video takes you through all the places to find GitHub Copilot in your editor and how to interact with it, along with some tips on Copilot that will dramatically increase your productivity.

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How to Open Settings.json in VS Code Fast — There is a lot of repeated information in this one (apparently for SEO purposes), but it's pretty extensive and covers some things about settings.json that you may not have known.

Best of the Rest

On the Design of Text Editors — From 2020, this is a dive into what choices are made in the design of editors and what the alternative design choices might be, without any bias.

Text Saver — A browser extension that allows you to quickly save any snippet of text from a web page.

The Morning Paper for Tech — Want a byte-sized version of Hacker News that takes just a few minutes to read? Try TLDR's free daily newsletter. It covers the most interesting tech, startup, and programming stories in just 5 minutes. No sports and no politics.  Sponsor 

Suggestions?

If you have any link suggestions, including a tool, article, or other resource related to VS Code or another IDE, you can hit reply, send it via DM on X, or via chat on Bluesky.

That's it for this issue.

Happy VS Coding!
Louis
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