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Nice! Looking forward to testing this out

I've been looking for something to use instead of VSCodium since Microsoft is becoming more hostile to it, and the lack of debugger was the main thing holding me back on Zed

zed.dev/blog/debugger

zed.devThe Debugger is Here - Zed BlogFrom the Zed Blog: Over 2,000 developers asked, and we delivered. Debugging in Zed is now a reality—and it's a big leap toward Zed 1.0.

yesterday #vscode got rolled back from version 1.101 to 1.80 the last before #salami hyped madness got the better of #code - by me intentionatly

it is faster now, not so sluggish,
less memory consumed

surprisingly batter consumption on mobile hot spot relaxed also

look to me, lot of unwanted and unmoral processing and data sharing has been stopped

also optout on update madness

The new PostgreSQL extension for VScode is amazing! 🚀

The VSCode team recently released a new extension for working with Postgres, and its features are mind-blowing. This includes the following features:
🔹 Support both connections to local and cloud-based Postgres databases
🔹 Schema visualizations ❤️
🔹 Copilot SQL agent
🔹 Docker supports 🐳
🔹 SQL editor

More details on the extension documentation: marketplace.visualstudio.com/i

The #Zed text editor (zed.dev) finally opened early access program for their #Windows builds. I suggest everyone from the #Accessibility dev community to sign up for it, hopefully (maybe!) we will be able to shape its accessibility. Many sighted people from the Apple land praise it for speed and amount of useful functions. I won't quit using #VSCode of course, but why not to have another tool in the box?

ZedZed — The editor for what's nextZed is a high-performance, multiplayer code editor from the creators of Atom and Tree-sitter.

The more I think about it, the more it seems to me that in this day and age with all the modern threats having a text editor that is capable to not only connect to the Internet, but also install some code packages from repositories (and probably do dependency resolving) is a recipe to catastrophe. Sooner or later.
It's probably one thing when you use a curated list of half a dozen addons that you can even personally peruse (or even contribute to). It's a whole other thing when you use some huge "distro" with probably hundreds of packages that also receive constant updates you cannot possibly control.
It's mostly about #Emacs, of course, but #vim is fully capable of it too. I won't even mention the likes of #VSCode.
We had a fair share of supply chain attacks in the recent years (npm, pip, even xz in some way). No reason to think no one's gonna use this channel of attack.
Maybe it's just my fibs. But there is some uneasy feeling about the fact that you edit, perhaps, extremely private, personal or sensitive texts while your editor runs some background code doing who knows what. It's one thing to trust people who wrote vim or Emacs and a whole other thing to trust a hundred other unknown parties at the same time.

Hoping those familiar with #LaTeX can give me some advice here. I've started using it to create my assignments for school. I'm not writing technical papers yet, but I find using LaTeX with #Zotero in #VSCode more #accessible with a #ScreenReader than most other setups I've tried.
Since my discussion posts have to follow #APA style, I’m using LaTeX for those as well as full papers. That part is going well—but I’m running into trouble when I need to actually post what I’ve written.
My school uses Brightspace, which allows discussion posts in either rich text or #HTML. I have #Pandoc installed, so I tried converting my LaTeX source to HTML and pasting the code. But Pandoc didn’t include my references section in the output.
I also tried copying from the PDF, but that stripped all formatting.
Does anyone know how I can get a clean HTML version of my work—with references included—that I can paste into Brightspace?
Here’s the command I’ve been using:
pandoc main.tex \
--bibliography=references. Bib \
--csl=apa.csl \
--standalone \
-o main.html
It creates the HTML file, but the references section is missing.
Any tips?
#Accessibility #AssistiveTech #Pandoc #APAstyle #Brightspace #EdTech #AcademicWriting #InclusiveTech #BlindTech #HigherEd #CitationTools #OpenSource #WritingWorkflow

I missed RStudio’s Tomorrow Night Bright 🌙 theme in Positron, but not anymore! Thanks to Open VSX, it’s now an extension. Here’s how we did it!

📚 Blog: ivelasq.rbind.io/blog/positron
⚛️ Positron Extension: tinyurl.com/358pfa47
👩🏻‍💻 VS Code Extension: tinyurl.com/yundmctf

%>% dreamsPorting my favorite RStudio color theme to Positron – %>% dreamsTomorrow night is always bright, regardless of IDE.

Hey, #developer friends! Does anyone know how to hop between changes in the #VSCode diff view *across files*? The arrow buttons and their keybindings only seem to work for changes in a single file. I have a hundred files to browse for diffs and there's no way I'm going to open each of them manually to do this. Is there a setting somewhere to have "next change" hop automatically to the next file when at the last one in a file?