Issue #176 (OpenAI's Official Coding Agent)09/03/25
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The VS Code team just announced that they're running "60+ global, in-person events to re-introduce you to VS Code as an AI-powered editor and upskill you on the latest features."
These events are called VS Code Dev Days, and you can read more about them on the announcement blog post here.
The events take place in September in Asia, Europe, Africa, the Middle East, Latin America, and North America. Additionally, there are 5 online-only events in four regions along with one that's worldwide. Be sure to check out the locations if you're able to attend one of those.
Now on to this week's hand-picked links!
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VS Code Tools
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Codex — The Official coding agent from OpenAI that helps you write, review, and ship code faster. Use it side-by-side in your IDE or delegate larger tasks to the cloud.
Promposer — An extension for VS Code and VS Code forks that enables you to supercharge your prompt engineering, to compose, improve, and evaluate LLM prompts.
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
LTeX — A VS Code extension that provides offline grammar checking of various markup languages, using LanguageTool (LT), with support for BibTEX, ConTEXt, LATEX, Markdown, Org, reStructuredText, R Sweave, and XHTML.
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VS Code Theme of the Week
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Naturefy Themes — This is a unique collection of themes "inspired by nature", with both dark and light themes available. There are 18 themes in all, and the one below is the Jellyfish theme.
The only thing I don't like about this collection of themes is that they're not named using the "Naturefy" prefix, so if you want to try out the different ones available, unless you memorize all the names, you have to do it from the "Set Color Theme" button inside VS Code when choosing the extension.
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VS Code Articles & Videos
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📺 MCP Servers in VS Code and GitHub Copilot — Video from the VS Code team on how to install and use remote MCP servers and how to build and install your own local MCP Server inside VS Code to use with GitHub Copilot agent mode.
Configure a Local Python MCP Server in VS Code — "Since I write my blog posts in Markdown and manage them through GitHub, having the MCP server available right in VS Code means I can search for related content, fact-check references, and maintain consistency without leaving my editor."
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
Turning VS Code into a Product Framework — Apparently this is the first of a series of posts where the author show how he's been turning VS Code into a reusable module, something you can embed, extend, and ship as part of your own product.
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Best of the Rest
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Astropad Workbench — A Mac app that enables seamless screensharing for designers and developers, for crystal-clear collaboration in Zoom, Teams and Google Meet.
Claude Code IDE for Emacs — A terminal wrapper for Emacs that provides native integration with Claude Code CLI through the Model Context Protocol (MCP).
Web Tools Weekly — My largest newsletter, sent every Thursday, featuring the latest tools for JavaScript, CSS, React, Vue, SVG, and more. Join 13,000+ subscribers for the latest tools and apps for developers. Sponsor
So You Want to Write Java in Neovim — If you've found writing Java in Neovim a challenge, this article from someone who's been doing it for a while may help.
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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