Issue #152 (Note-taking Extension for Devs)03/19/25
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For almost two years now, VS Code has featured an improved search experience inside your command palette. It's not something you'd necessarily notice, but you may have picked up on some of the details.
Seeing as it's difficult to remember every command or shortcut by name, you can now do a search and get direct results followed by a section called "similar commands".
The search results will also include commands that are associated with any extensions you have installed. For example, typing something like "explain terminal" will bring up different results, including the primary ones from the GitHub Copilot assistant.
Apparently this search is continuing to improve, with the intention to eventually include keywords based on the description of the command but that don't necessarily appear in the command itself. This will also include words that are synonymous like show/reveal, copy/duplicate etc.
Now on to this week's hand-picked links!
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VS Code Tools
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dendron — A local-first, markdown-based, note-taking tool and personal knowledge management solution built specifically for developers and integrates natively with VS Code and VSCodium.
code2clipboard — A VS Code extension that lets you quickly copy multiple project files as text onto your clipboard. It automatically detects whether your project is React or Node.js by checking package.json and excludes unnecessary files like node_modules, .git, etc.
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ExtensionTotal — An extension for VS Code and JetBrains to streamline enterprise supply chain security by quickly detecting malicious, risky, vulnerable, or non-compliant third-party extensions and software packages.
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VS Code Theme of the Week
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Grunge — An older theme that was originally ported from a TextMate theme of the same name, attempting to mimic a 'grunge' look.
The color choices for the syntax highlighting are fairly nice – something different but with good contrast and not too crazy. The only flaw in the theme is the fact that even after installing this, my Nirvana cover band is still mediocre.
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VS Code Articles & Videos
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Best of the Rest
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pydantic.run — A Python browser sandbox based on Pyodide (a Python distribution for the browser based on Node.js and WASM) to write and share Python code and run it in the browser.
Helix vs. Neovim: A Modern Showdown of Terminal Editors — If you enjoy terminal-based editors, you probably use Vim or Neovim. This comparison with a modern alternative might be educational.
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Does Visual Studio Rot the Mind? — Originally a talk delivered at the NYC .NET Developer’s Group in October 20, 2005, and even though it was written 20 years ago, sounds like it's talking about the current state of AI-powered IDEs!
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
VSCode.Email
@LouisLazaris
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