VSCode.Email Issue #224 (A Postman Alternative for VS Code)

Issue #224 (A Postman Alternative for VS Code)08/05/26

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VS Code Tools

Postmate Client — A privacy-first Postman alternative for VS Code that allows you to test REST, GraphQL, and WebSocket APIs locally, with no login, no cloud sync, and no telemetry.

agentmemory — A memory layer your coding agent, to enable it to capture every session, recall in milliseconds, and run anywhere. Compatible with VS Code, Copilot CLI, Cursor, etc.

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QuackWrangler — A VS Code extension to explore, transform, visualize, query, and export data with built-in DuckDB. No Python or Jupyter and your file contents stay local.

VS Code Theme of the Week

Codex Palette for VS Code — This is a collection of all 43 Codex appearance presets ported to VS Code, with faithful colors and one-click system appearance switching.

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The set includes a lot of common themes like Gruvbox, Dracula, Material, Monokai, and so on, along with light versions of many of them, and some that you may not have seen before like Sentry, shown above.

VS Code Articles & Videos

MAI-Code-1-Flash: Early Results from Real Developer Workflows — A look at how specifically training models for VS Code's harness can further improve quality and efficiency, with a focus on Microsoft's new lightweight coding model introduced at MS Build.

VS Code v1.131 — X thread from the VS Code team with details on the latest version of VS Code, including checking subagent process, built-in dictation, and more.

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Github Breach via Poisoned VS Code Extension — A trojanized Nx Console extension spent 18 minutes in the VS Code Marketplace and that was enough to compromise a GitHub employee’s machine and expose roughly 3,800 internal repositories.

Best of the Rest

Marky — A fast, native markdown viewer for macOS and Linux built featuring beautiful rendering of tables, code blocks, task lists, math, and diagrams, with live reload.

MonkeysCode — An agentic IDE for Mac, Windows, or Linux that lets you choose your model, is 100% local, with optional team sync and monorepo-aware.

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doom-coding — A guide on how to use your smartphone to do Claude-assisted coding via the terminal anywhere at anytime.

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