VSCode.Email Issue #217 (Why I Left VS Code and Neovim for Zed)

Issue #217 (Why I Left VS Code and Neovim for Zed)06/17/26

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VS Code Tools

AI Avatar — A VRM 3D character in your VS Code sidebar that reacts to Claude Code / GitHub Copilot AI activity. Animations and speech bubbles all run without AI too.

Coffee Lint — Not sure how many developers are still using CoffeScript, but this is a VS Code extension that integrates CoffeeLint (a style checker that helps keep CoffeeScript code clean and consistent) into VS Code.

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vscode-dbsnapper — A VS Code extension that complements the DBSnapper platform and allows for an in-editor experience to load database snapshots.

VS Code Theme of the Week

Nebula — An older theme, but a highly rated one that describes itself as an "almost-material theme" for VS Code.

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It's pretty straightforward dark theme in its syntax color choices, with some emphasis on pinks and purples. There is a slightly different version that has a light colored sidebar for the UI, although it seems a bit abrasive to me.

VS Code Articles & Videos

📺 Why I Left VS Code and Neovim for Zed Editor — From Chris Titus's YouTube, he views Zed as a combination of VS Code and Neovim. He covers custom tasks, Vim bindings, parallel agents, Git integration, and more.

Why VS Code is Still My Go-To IDE (After Trying Everything Else) — And if you want the other side of the coin, so to speak, this is a succinct breakdown of why this user prefers to stay with VS Code.

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I Stopped Paying for Obsidian After Discovering VS Code Can Handle My Notes Just as Well with the Right Extensions — A nice tip if you want to move your note-taking directly to VS Code, with the help of a few recommended extensions.

Best of the Rest

Codex Pets — A community shelf of tiny animated companions for Codex. Browse the gallery, pick a friend, and install it from the terminal.

Multiple JetBrains IDE Plugins Caught Stealing AI Keys — Discovered by the folks at Aikido, at least 15 IDE plugins, published under seven vendor accounts, where each one exfiltrates the AI provider API key that you stored into its settings.

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Conductor — Create parallel Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor agents in isolated workspaces. See at a glance what they're working on, then review and merge their changes.

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
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@LouisLazaris