Question about #VSCode, does anyone know? Before, when I pressed Ctrl+shift+E, I was brought to the Explorer tree in the location of the currently opened file. Now it's kinda random. Is it a bug or is there a setting somewhere? Very annoying.

Any #python developers using #vscode here?

I'm trying to get the pylance extension installed, which as far as I understand is needed to get intellisense autocomplete to work properly.

I installed the extension ms-python which should install pylance automatically, but it doesn't. When I search for pylance in marketplace, it doesn't show up in marketplace. So it seems pylance isn't available in the marketplace? But it shows up here: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ms-python.vscode-pylance

Running the suggested command 'ext install ms-python.vscode-pylance' doesn't do anything except bring up the marketplace tab, where the extension doesn't show up.

So... what do I do? How do I get this extension installed?

If it helps, I'm on Linux, here's the output of the "About" command from Code:

Version: 1.101.2
Commit: 2901c5ac6db8a986a5666c3af51ff804d05af0d4
Date: 2025-06-25T19:40:00.687Z
Electron: 35.7.1
ElectronBuildId: undefined
Chromium: 134.0.6998.205
Node.js: 22.16.0
V8: 13.4.114.21-electron.0
OS: Linux x64 6.15.6-arch1-1

I feel like this is such an obvious thing for code editors, but can't find it in any of mine (Rider, #vscode etc).

I can move the cursor down with down arrow, or I can scroll the page down with ctrl + down arrow. Why can't I do both?

i.e. a button to scroll down a line and reposition the cursor to it stays in the same place on my screen.

Otherwise I scroll the cursor off the screen and when I start typing it's not where I'm looking at.

Obvious feature needed right?

New blog post

A short post about some of the questions you might want to ask yourself before you decide which IDE to use!

Link: https://nrennie.rbind.io/blog/how-choose-ide/

Does anybody know if debugging functionality is accessible with #VSCode? And if so, am I right you need to switch back and forth between virtual cursor and forms mode (#JAWS terminology), or browse mode and focus mode (#NVDA terminology)? #Accessibility

@campuscodi good one - crazy #vscode #python #supply chain attacks

Ang journey sa libo ka linya sa #code magsugod sa usa ka #HelloWorld! Mao ni akong #Cplusplus setup sa #VSCode Gusto pud ko makakita sa journey sa uban ug makakat-on sa ilang tips sa kini nga field

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

https://zed.dev/blog/debugger

#Emacs is often mis represented just as a customizable text editor (even on project website). In reality, it’s a highly hackable lisp environment. Just stop comparing it with #vim #vscode #helix or any other text editors / IDEs

Is there a fork/alt build of #VSCode without the #AI features? The time has come for one. More and more AI garbage (and they still can't make it indent code properly!) #FuckAI #OpenSource

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

Five VScode extensions for working with Docker :
Dev Containers
Docker
Remote Development
Docker Explorer
Kubernetes

More details are available below:
https://ramikrispin.substack.com/p/five-vscode-extensions-for-working-a10

I'm tired of manual python repos setup ...

I made pyuvstarter, a small command-line app to set up local Python repos, find python imports, install the packages, then config uv .venv & vscode for you.

It saves me a bunch of steps on projects, try it!
#python #uv #vscode
https://github.com/ahundt/pyuvstarter

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: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ms-ossdata.vscode-pgsql

Tried #Gemini Code Assist in #VSCode. A cool thing actually, if you know what you're doing (which is true for every #AI assistant though).

The #Zed text editor (https://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?

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

Installing VS Code on Arch isn’t hard.

https://itsfoss.com/install-vs-code-arch-linux/