VSCode.Email Issue #214 (Thousands of Repos Breached)

Issue #214 (Thousands of Repos Breached)05/27/26

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VS Code Tools

MDV — A VS Code extension that adds live side-by-side preview for .mdv files, a strict superset of Markdown for writing documents, dashboards, and slides with charts, KPI cards, tables, and styled regions.

LiveTem — A VS Code extension that allows you to create and edit VS Code snippets with a built-in editor, with snippet scope management, syntax highlighting for languages, and more.

Do You Know VS Code's Native Features? — 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

EarlyAI — A VS Code extension that auto-generates verified unit tests, improving code quality in JavaScript, TypeScript, and Python, with support for Node.js, React, Angular with Jest, Mocha, Vitest, and Pytest.

VS Code Theme of the Week

AuroraSynth — This is described as a modern, vibrant theme "designed for developers who love a stylish, high-contrast interface with a unique pink and synthwave-inspired palette."

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It's definitely unique in its color choices both in the syntax highlighting and the UI. There's a light theme, but I find it's too bright and has too much pink for my tastes. Not a bad dark theme if you like to try something different once in a while.

VS Code Articles & Videos

GitHub Confirms Breach of 3,800 Repos Via Malicious VS Code Extension — GitHub confirmed that roughly 3,800 internal repositories were breached after one of its employees installed a malicious VS Code extension.

📺 Orchestrating Multiple Agents Inside VS Code — A talk by Vladislav Guzey at the recent GitHub Dev Day in Australia, covering how to speed up your AI coding with four different types of agents.

TLDR Design — Curated design tools, trends, and inspiration in 5 minutes a day, for design professionals. Join 225,000 readers. Sponsor

Keep Your Context Short - Manual Compaction is Now Available in VS Code — A look at a new VS Code feature released in February 2026, which brings the `/compact` command directly into the editor, helping to make agents more usable real-world developer tasks.

Best of the Rest

Why I Uninstalled Zed 20 Minutes After Installation — One developer finds Zed is fast but disorienting and difficult to navigate codebases, among other problems described here.

MonoSketch — A powerful ASCII sketching and diagramming app that lets you effortlessly transform your ideas into visually stunning designs.

Web Tools Weekly — Check out my largest newsletter, the only one in the industry focused solely on sharing the latest and greatest in tools for CSS, JavaScript, React, AI, SVG, Vue, Node.js, and lots more. Sponsor

JARU IDE — An IoT development environment with its own language (JARU), that features a visual debugger, sprite editor, image tools, and one-click deployment.

Suggestions?

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