Issue #220 (Browser Tools for GitHub Copilot)07/08/26
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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GitHub Markdown Preview — A VS Code extension that changes VS Code's built-in markdown preview to match GitHub markdown rendering in style and content.
HN Reader — A VS Code extension that enables you to browse Hacker News in the sidebar, preview articles, and save stories to Obsidian.
DBCode — A database IDE inside VS Code, with autocomplete, AI queries, and 80+ databases. Sponsor
vscode2prompt — A VS Code extension that allows you to merge selected files or open tabs into a single file, useful for preparing content to be used in AI-based programming.
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VS Code Theme of the Week
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Untitled — A straightforward dark theme, with just one theme in the package, that has nice color choices for the syntax highlighting.
There aren't too many purples, pinks, and so on, which are common in popular themes, so if you prefer something different but not overly bombastic, this is a nice choice.
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VS Code Articles & Videos
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What 50,000 Runs of a 5-Line Eval Taught Us — In a previous post, the VS Code team introduced VSC-Bench, an offline evaluation suite used to measure agent behavior in VS Code. This post looks at how models solve a simple task and what it says about efficiency, model selection, and the value of small, stable evals.
VS Code 1.123 Adds Two-Hour Extension Update Delay to Limit Supply Chain Attacks — In case you missed it, a recent VS Code update ensures that newly published extension versions sit for two hours before auto-update kicks in, to help catch malicious updates.
TLDR Dev — Get smarter about software in 5 minutes. The most important software engineering news in a daily email. Join 400,000+ subscribers. Sponsor
Browser Tools for GitHub Copilot in VS Code are Generally Available — "Agents can now drive a real browser, navigate live web apps, and feed what they find back into the chat. Browser tools are on by default with general availability, shaped by feedback from preview users."
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Best of the Rest
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cell — A terminal spreadsheet editor with Vim keybindings, written in Rust, with optional headless mode.
mine — An IDE for or Windows, macOS, and Linux and designed for use with the Coalton and Common Lisp languages, with both built in.
$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
Writing My Own Text Editor, and Daily-Driving It — The author has tried more than a dozen different editors but eventually decided to make his own, which you can check out here.
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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