Issue #208 (GitHub Copilot Dev Days Events)04/15/26
Pre-IPO A.I Smart Home Opportunity — Nasdaq Ticker $RYSS Reserved
RYSE is building the A.I. layer for the smart home, starting at one of the most important control points: window coverings. Blinds and shades shape how natural light, heat, and comfort move through an entire space – yet over 90% remain manually controlled across homes, offices, and hotels.
The first wave of smart home leaders showed what’s possible. Google acquired Nest for $3.2 Billion. Amazon bought Ring for over $1 Billion. Each began with a single overlooked category. RYSE is following that path with window covering automation.
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RYSE has earned over $15 million in revenue, holds 10 patents, and is expanding through major retail and B2B channels, including sales in 100+ Best Buy stores and deployments with Fairmont Hotel.
The company has reserved the Nasdaq ticker $RYSS. This may be their final public round before they shift towards institutional capital ahead of any potential exit or liquidity.
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For those interested in attending in-person events, the VS Code team has started promoting GitHub Copilot Dev Days events across April and May in different parts of the world.
From the website linked above you can choose a date and location for more info on a specific event.
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To give you an idea what to expect, the basic event description is as follows:
Join us for a community-led developer event focused on AI-assisted coding with GitHub Copilot. This event brings together developers to explore practical workflows, real-world use cases, and hands-on experiences using GitHub Copilot.
Whether you are new to GitHub Copilot or already using it, this event will help you better understand how to apply AI-assisted coding techniques in everyday development.
There are events already running this week or you can find one near you in the coming weeks.
Now on to this week's hand-picked links!
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VS Code Tools
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Enia Code — A VS Code extension that adds a coding agent that does less prompting, more building, has a persistent memory, and a unified task center.
Editor Tab Save Context Menu — A VS Code extension that adds a new context menu option on each editor tab, to allow you to "Save..." the file.
Learn Visual Studio Code — A 346-page e-book in EPUB and PDF formats that includes 150+ native tips and 450+ screenshots, to help you customize and learn Visual Studio Code, the world's most popular code editor. Sponsor
Pylance — A VS Code extension that works alongside Python in VS Code, to provide performant language support and uses Pyright, Microsoft's static type checking tool, under the hood.
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VS Code Theme of the Week
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donato one dark — A nice looking pair of dark themes, inspired by the popular One Dark Pro theme.
The one shown above is the 'oled' variant, which has a very 'midnight black' look to it, while still maintaining good contrast in the syntax highlighting and UI choices. You can also select the 'flat' variant, which has a slightly lighter background and a borderless look in the UI.
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VS Code Articles & Videos
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Best of the Rest
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📺 Vim Has A 0-Day? — Video from Michael Paulson, AKA The Primeagen, discussing some recent findings by Claude in Vim and Emacs.
Axon — An AI coding assistant with a built-in Web IDE, multi-agent task system, and self-evolution capabilities.
David Burkus Newsletter — Join 25,000+ leaders who receive David's twice monthly tips on building high-performing teams. Sponsor
JetBrains Air — The latest from the JetBrains team, an agentic development environment where Codex, Claude Agent, Gemini CLI, and Junie execute independent task loops without interfering with each other.
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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