Winter ’25/26

Type Less With Code Snippets
Developers often face repetitive coding patterns, ranging from standard if/for structures to Go's error handling or HTML boilerplates. This redundancy is inefficient and error-prone. Snippets offer the optimal solution. When you type a short prefix (e.g., if, for), your IDE suggests a completion item that can be expanded into a predefined code template.

6 min read

Autumn ’25

VSCode Status Bar Ricing
Customize the VS Code status bar with custom CSS, fonts, item ordering, Vim mode colors, and replacement problem icons.

4 min read

Summer ’25

Spring ’25

Winter ’24/25

VS Code DevContainer
Use VS Code Dev Containers to develop inside Docker, reusing an existing Dockerfile while keeping dependencies isolated and reproducible.

3 min read

VSCode Ricing
Customize VS Code with Custom CSS and Animations, including themes, fonts, status bar styling, borders, and command palette layout.

3 min read

Autumn ’24

Winter ’23/24

Using tasks.json
A brief note on using VS Code tasks.json to compile, run, package, and automate common project tasks.

3 min read

VS Code Extensions
A personal list of VS Code extensions for editing, Markdown, formatting, Git, web development, utilities, and drawing.

2 min read