Issue #162 (Open Sourcing Copilot Chat)05/28/25
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One cool thing about using Copilot in VS Code is the fact that you can ask it questions in the chat panel about VS Code itself.
For example, suppose you want to customize some aspect of a VS Code theme that you're using but you can't remember exactly how to do it.
Or maybe you want to do a "symbol" search in your current file or project:
Or possibly you just forgot a specific keyboard shortcut and don't want to have to look up the full keyboard shortcuts page to find it:
So if you recall that something is possible in VS Code but can't for the life of you remember how it's done, just ask in the chat panel and more often than not you should get the info you need.
Now on to this week's hand-picked links!
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VS Code Tools
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Ridvay Code — A VS Code extension that brings the power of a senior AI developer directly into your VS Code environment, accelerating your workflow and boosting code quality.
Calva Power Tools — A VS Code extension, and Calva companion, for Clojure and ClojureScript development that adds commands for popular Clojure libraries and tools, including commands for dynamically loading the tool dependencies.
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Region Helper — A VS Code extension for navigating, visualizing, and managing code regions, including features like keyboard navigation, interactive tree views, fuzzy search, diagnostics, and other useful tools.
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VS Code Theme of the Week
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Arcade — A very nice VS Code theme that the author describes as "somewhere between neon and pastel."
There's no other information available in the repository or on the marketplace page, but the extension also includes a light version, which I didn't like at all. But the dark version, shown above, is great.
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VS Code Articles & Videos
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VS Code: Open Source AI Editor — Recent blog post from the VS Code team on the open sourcing of the GitHub Copilot Chat extension under an MIT license, part of the process in making VS Code an open source AI editor.
Master Docker and VS Code: Supercharge Your Dev Workflow — As the author explains, this is for those looking to speed up local development, minimize the “it works on my machine” excuses, and streamline the entire workflow.
Brain Food, Delivered Daily — Every day Refind analyzes thousands of articles and sends you only the best, tailored to your interests. Loved by 527,190 curious minds. Sponsor
VS Code Forks Are Facing a Grim Future — A pretty hot take here, so take it with a grain of salt, though there may be some merit to the problems explained.
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Best of the Rest
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jsPad — A powerful and modern playground for writing and testing JavaScript, TypeScript, HTML, and CSS.
Void — An open source AI code editor that lets you write code with the best AI tools, use any model, and retain full control over your data.
Web Tools Weekly — A weekly newsletter featuring tools, plugins, scripts and other useful stuff for front-end developers, full-stack developers, app developers, mobile developers, and more. Sponsor
lualine.nvim — A blazing fast and easy to configure Neovim 'statusline' plugin written in pure Lua.
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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