Issue #160 (The Ultimate VS Code Setup)05/14/25
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The intro tip is on hiatus this week, but there's enough to keep you busy in the curated links below.
In the meantime, if you happen to write a tutorial or article related to VS Code or another IDE, or if you made your own plugin for VS Code or any other text editor, just hit reply and send me a link. Video links are also accepted.
And if you haven't done so already, you can subscribe to my other two newsletters Web Tools Weekly (running weekly since 2013!) and Tech Productivity, which is a short newsletter focused on helping tech workers be more efficient and productive.
Now on to this week's hand-picked links!
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VS Code Tools
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OctAPI — A VS Code extension that provides a seamless way to explore and manage your API routes within VS Code, with features like smart route detection, framework support, smart file watching and caching, and lots more.
Julia for Visual Studio Code — A VS Code extension that provides support for the Julia programming language.
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TagitUp — A simple VS Code extension for tagging files within your workspace and easily searching for them.
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VS Code Theme of the Week
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Theme High Contrast Dark — A unique high-contrast theme designed to enhance the syntax of Python, Ruby, Lua, CoffeeScript, JavaScript, PHP, HTML, CSS, JSON, Markdown, XML, YAML, and more.
Like other high-contrast themes, this includes focus rings on tabs, files, and other UI elements. This one is similar to the default high-contrast theme bundled with VS Code, so you might like this one as an alternative.
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VS Code Articles & Videos
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Best of the Rest
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nvim-http — Inspired by the popular VS Code REST Client extension, this is a Vim plugin that lets you run HTTP requests directly in your editor.
textmate-grammars-themes — A collection of TextMate grammars and themes, converted to JSON and re-distributed as npm packages, extracted from Shiki, and available for general usage.
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ad — An attempt at combining a modal editing interface of likes of vi and kakoune with the approach to extensibility of Plan9's Acme.
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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