Issue #158 (Agent Mode Day Videos)04/30/25
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In case you missed it, a couple of weeks ago the VS Code team hosted a live event called Agent Mode Day, which I mentioned in that week's issue. The full video of the live stream is available on YouTube and works as a nice lengthy introduction to a new set of features in VS Code's AI capabilities.
The full stream is about 5 and a half hours long, but you can jump to different parts by using the links in the description. One particular highlight might be the closing "vibe coding" session by Wes Bos where he builds an app that uses live hand tracking.
Of course, if 5+ hours is too much for you, below I've also linked a much more digestible video from the VS Code YouTube channel that introduces Agent Mode.
Now on to this week's hand-picked links!
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VS Code Tools
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Azure Databases — A VS Code extension that enables you to connect to MongoDB, Mongo Clusters, CosmosDB, and other databases in and outside of Azure, with ability to inspect and edit your data and run queries with a visual query editor.
GoCodeo — An AI coding agent for VS Code to help you write, test, and ship production-grade code at lightning speed, covering architecture to deployment.
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Flow Icons — A new file icon pack for VS Code where the icons have sort of a mesh gradient look. The page includes some demos for Next.js, Nuxt, Tauri, and Go projects, but there are others as well.
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VS Code Theme of the Week
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zzhtheme — A nice pastel-colored theme that includes both a dark and light version. The author put this out as a personal theme but it's fairly nice, so you might consider it for your own use.
The light version of the theme doesn't have much contrast, so I didn't care for it much, but the extension page does say the author is still working on it.
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VS Code Articles & Videos
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📺 VS Code Agent Mode Just Changed Everything — Another video from the VS Code team, this one a summary of using agent mode, MCP Servers, and PRD documents to build a full app complete with database.
Will VS Code Beat Cursor & Windsurf in the Long Term? — There's starting to be a lot of competition in the AI code editor space, and this post covers what the VS Code team is doing to combat this.
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Keybindings I Use in VS Code — Cassidy Williams' preferred (or most used) keyboard shortcuts for VS Code, which come in handy when doing presentations or just wanting to be as mouse-free as possible.
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Best of the Rest
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Annotation Mono — A handwriting-style monospace font that's also a variable font and has letter forms inspired by monospace bitmap fonts so that legibility is maximized while retaining a hand-written character.
How Cursor (AI IDE) Works — A deep dive that aims to encourage a less ‘vibes-based’ approach and a more concrete understanding of how things work in IDEs like Cursor and how to optimize for AI.
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Nuppets Snippets — A collection of pre-written pieces of code and AI commands that you can quickly insert into your project and enhance your coding productivity.
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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@LouisLazaris
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