Issue #219 (Use Your Own LM Key in VS Code)07/01/26
Real Database Power, Right Inside VS Code
Stop alt-tabbing to pgAdmin or DataGrip. DBCode puts a full database IDE in VS Code: browse and edit data, write SQL with schema-aware autocomplete, and turn plain-English questions into queries. 80+ databases, one interface.
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VS Code Tools
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Multiline Cursor Audio Visualizer — A VS Code extension that will transform VS Code into a real-time music visualizer using multiline cursors, so you can watch your code dance to audio frequencies from microphone or system audio.
Dino — An AI coding partner for VS Code, built for collaboration over automation, featuring precise diff editing, GitHub-style diff review, and built-in version control. Privacy-first, lightweight, and works with any model.
DBCode — A database IDE inside VS Code, with autocomplete, AI queries, and 80+ databases. Sponsor
React Props First — A VS Code extension for React IntelliSense that prioritizes custom JSX and TSX props before inherited DOM and ARIA attributes in autocomplete.
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VS Code Theme of the Week
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Hydra — A VS Code theme pack that's a port of the old Hydra theme from Atom. It includes two primary themes, Hydra and Hydra Plus (shown below).
The regular Hydra has less orange in it and the pack also includes variations with italics, and a few named with "MD" which I'm assuming has something to do with Markdown features (which isn't fully explained in the docs).
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VS Code Articles & Videos
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Use Your Own Language Model Key in VS Code — "With BYOK in VS Code, you can add models from providers like Azure, Anthropic, Huggingface, Gemini, OpenAI, OpenRouter, or you can run a model locally with Ollama, Foundry Local, and more, then use them directly from the Chat model picker."
📺 VS Code at Build 2026 — YouTube playlist featuring all Microsoft Build 2026 breakouts and interviews focused on Visual Studio Code.
TLDR AI — Keep up with AI in 5 minutes with most interesting AI stories and breakthroughs in a free daily email. Join 900,000+ subscribers. Sponsor
You Don’t Need a GitHub Copilot Subscription to Use VS Code AI Features — According to the author, most developers assume VS Code AI and GitHub Copilot are inseparable, but here he explains that they're not.
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Best of the Rest
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Jacobi — An IDE for physics simulation subroutines, allowing you to write Fortran, C++, or Python, test against closed-form analytical solutions, and pinpoint exactly what failed.
Claude Code for Visual Studio — An extension for Visual Studio (not VS Code) that brings Claude Code into Visual Studio, with features including a native diff window with accept/reject, automatic selection plus compiler-diagnostics context, live debugger access, semantic code navigation + decompile (Roslyn), and a stats panel.
$14,000+ in AI Tools. One Card. $199 — Unlock $14,000+ in AI tools, credits, templates, perks and partner benefits with the AI Executive’s Pass. Built for operators, founders and leaders who want to move faster with AI. Sponsor
InvizCrypt — A collaborative LaTeX editor with end-to-end encryption where your documents are encrypted in your browser before they leave your device.
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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