Issue #54  (VS Code Day 2023 Recap)05/03/23

As I mentioned last week, the VS Code team held their annual VS Code Day. Whether you were able to catch some of it live or not, the entire program has been posted on the VS Code YouTube Channel so you can catch up on anything you missed.

VS Code Day 2023 Full Playlist

There's a single 6-hour video that holds the complete live stream as it happened, or you can choose one of the individual videos uploaded a few days after the event.
 
I'll be back with more tips in this intro in later issues, but I think those videos should be enough to keep you busy to get your fill of the latest on VS Code!

Now on to this week's hand-picked links!

 

VS Code Tools

Icon Fonts — VS Code extension that includes snippets for popular icon fonts such as Font Awesome, Ionicons, Glyphicons, Octicons, Material Design Icons, and more.

Embed Images in Markdown — VS Code extension that allows you to drop an image file (png, jpeg, jpg, gif, or webp) into a Markdown document and it gets embedded using a data URI.

vscode-wasm — A WASI implementation that uses VS Code's extension host as the implementing API.

Tech Productivity — A brief weekly newsletter featuring tips, tools, and articles on productivity, work culture, remote work, well-being, brain science, and more.  Sponsor 

Inline Fold — VS Code extension that mimics VS Code's folding experience for inline code, useful for frameworks like Tailwind CSS that use lots of utility classes that disrupt the page structure visually.
 

VS Code Articles & Videos

Become a Code Ninja with the CodeGPT VS Code Extension — It's one of the more popular GPT-based extensions with over 500k installs already. You might benefit from this tutorial if you haven't tried it much yet.

Visual Studio Code and GitHub Copilot — From the VS Code blog, some new features coming soon to VS Code, which are also discussed in this video.

Bytes: Your Favourite JavaScript Newsletter — I subscribe to a lot of newsletters, but this is definitely one I look forward to. Entertaining with lots of cool and useful JavaScript coding tidbits, news, and tools.  Sponsor 

Create an Azure Function with PowerShell and Visual Studio Code — Azure Functions, discussed in this post along with PowerShell, are great for building microservices, integrations, or automation tasks.
 

Best of the Rest

PartyKit — An open source platform for building collaborative apps, fully managed, deployed on the edge.

AI Playground — Start typing a prompt for the AI models, then hit Run Playground to see the results.

A History of Visual Basic — From the folks at Retool, a snazzy interactive article covering how Visual Basic became the world's most dominant programming environment, its sudden fall from grace, and why its influence is still shaping the future of software development.

Suggestions?

If you have any link suggestions, including a tool, article, or other resources related to VS Code or another IDE, send it via DM on X: @LouisLazaris or just hit reply on this email.

That's it for this issue.

Happy VS Coding!
Louis
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