VSCode.Email Issue #221 (VS Code Stops Trusting Your Code By Default)

Issue #221 (VS Code Stops Trusting Your Code By Default)07/15/26

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.

Install DBCode 🡺

VS Code Tools

Hexana — A VS Code extension that provides a binary hex viewer and analyzer with a focus on WebAssembly and Native (ELF/PE/Mach-O) formats.

croft — A VS Code-style three pane workspace that runs entirely inside your terminal. Written in Rust and shipped as a single static binary.

DBCode — A database IDE inside VS Code, with autocomplete, AI queries, and 80+ databases. Sponsor

FixBugs — An AI agent (as a VS Code extension or GitHub app) that triages alerts, detects bugs, and resolves them automatically, from root cause analysis to validated fix, end-to-end.

VS Code Theme of the Week

Fruitbasket — A berry-inspired theme that includes a dark and light version, which is, as you guessed, strong in reds, purples, and some blues.

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Both versions are nice, depending on if you prefer light or dark, and none of the colors are too strong, mostly with a pastel feel.

VS Code Articles & Videos

Iterating Faster with TypeScript 7 — "Adopting TypeScript 7 while it was still being built may sound a little crazy, but it turned out to be a great decision for both VS Code and TypeScript."

VS Code Stops Trusting Your Code By Default — Covers the new security mode in version 1.126, which prevents automatic code execution for new project folders and lets users configure whether code can be executed without explicit approval.

The Deep View — The go-to daily newsletter for 760k+ founders, knowledge workers and professionals who want to stay up to date with AI. Sponsor

Writing Code vs. Shipping Code: Productivity Effects Across Generations of AI Coding Tools — A study based on data from more than 100,000 GitHub developers combined with their AI usage telemetry.

Best of the Rest

Polypad — A mathematics playground consisting of a suite of free and unique tools that allow students to play and explore.

A Eulogy for Vim — The story of one experienced Vim user's road to creating Vim Classic. a fork of Vim 8.2.

$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

codex-history — A read-only CLI for a locally accessible Codex session history, offering search transcripts, inspect threads, export handoffs, and build an optional local index.

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