VSCode.Email Issue #66 (Audio Cues in VS Code)

Issue #66 (Audio Cues in VS Code)07/26/23

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Try it Out ⇀

If you like audio notifications, in case you didn't know, you can enable different audio cues in VS Code in your settings. Type "Audio Cues" in your settings search box, and you'll see about 20 settings come up in the results.

You'll notice by default all the Audio Cues settings are set to either "off" or "auto". The "auto" value enables the audio cue only if a screen reader is attached, as the text description explains when you hover over the "auto" option.

So for most users, the Audio Cues will be turned off, but you can enable any of them as you like. Some useful ones might include:

When the active line has a warning or an error
When a debugger stops a breakpoint
Terminal command failed
When the current line has an inline suggestion

And naturally, VS Code allows you to adjust the volume of the Audio Cues sound. It's the first result when searching "Audio Cues" or the last one if you search for "audiocues" (or just search "audiocues volume").

The sound volume can be adjusted by setting a value from 0-100.

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

VS Code Tools

CodeUI — A VS Code extension that lets you browse the elements of VS Code's interface and adjust your color theme's settings in real time.

Bootstrap IntelliSense — A VS Code extension that adds auto-complete for Bootstrap CSS classes.

Auto Hide — VS Code extension that enables you to auto-hide the sidebar or other panels in VS Code's UI when clicking into the editor.

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change-case — An old but popular VS Code extension to quickly change the case (camelCase, CONSTANT_CASE, snake_case, etc) of the current selection or current word.

VS Code Theme of the Week

Material Theme — Billed as "the most epic theme", this was originally a popular theme for Sublime Text and has been ported to a number of other apps, this being the VS Code version.

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It includes 10 primary versions, mostly dark with a few light, along with a handful of community-contributed customizations. The one above is called Ocean High Contrast. As always, hit CTRL-K + CTRL-T to quickly view and try out all the theme versions live.

VS Code Articles & Videos

Automatic Import Sorting in Visual Studio Code — A quick tip for sorting imports, set via a flag in settings.json, along with a way to get more granular using ESLint.

▶ VS Code Extension: Beyond “Hello World” — A live stream from the VS Code YouTube channel that goes beyond the basics of writing your own VS Code extension.

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

Twitter Thread: Switching from Vim to VS Code — If you're considering this same switch, you might want to check out the discussion in this Twitter thread (or am I now supposed to say "X thread"?? I have no idea... thanks, Elon)

Best of the Rest

Iosevka — An open-source, sans-serif + slab-serif, monospace + quasi-proportional typeface family, designed for writing code, using in terminals, and preparing technical documents.

CoderPad — A simple yet powerful online technical assessment platform that makes it easy to interview in the candidate’s language of choice.

JDoodle — An online compiler, editor, and IDE for Java, C, C++, PHP, Perl, Python, Ruby and more. You can run your programs on the fly online and save and share them with others.

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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@LouisLazaris