I Used to Lose Tasks in the Most Embarrassing Way Not because I didn’t write them down, but because I wrote them everywhere. A quick TODO in a code comment, a...
Why use an external terminal I’m not a huge fan of VS Code’s internal terminal. I keep bumping into its various bugs, such as disappearing characters, Cmd‑V pa...
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The Reality of Open Source: Beyond the Hype Most engineering students wait for an internship to prove their worth. I decided to take a different route: Direct...
If you use VS Code as your editor but rely on tmux as the real source of truth for your terminal sessions, you’ll want the integrated terminal to always land in...
I wanted my portfolio to feel familiar to other developers — not like yet another generic personal website. So I decided to build a VS Code–inspired portfolio t...
Background After my next gig’s start date was set about two weeks away, I finally had some free time. I opened VS Code, poured a cup of coffee, and started loo...
A few months ago, I switched from VS Code to Zed. Not because VS Code is bad — it’s still an amazing editor — but because it slowly became… heavy. My setup had...
The Problem: Context Switching Fatigue 😫 You often have to install a specific package and go through these steps: 1. Open npm. 2. Search for the package name...
I built Nogic, a VSCode extension currently, because AI tools make code grow faster than developers can build a mental model by jumping between files. Exploring...
CUE – The Swiss‑Army Knife of File Generation and Literate Programming CUE is the tool you reach for when you need to: generate complex JSON, validate YAML, ma...
1. The Problem: Why Global Undo Fails Devs 😤 If you’ve been using VS Code long enough, you’ve probably had this moment: 1. You’re editing two different parts...
