John Liter·6wWhy VS Code Is Still My Go-To IDE (After Trying Everything Else)
A developer shares why Visual Studio Code remains their preferred IDE despite trying alternatives like Cursor, Trae, and browser-based editors. Key reasons include its stability, massive extension ecosystem, seamless GitHub integration, optional GitHub Copilot AI support, and its value for developer growth. The post also recommends VS Code for beginners as a stable, flexible starting point.
daily.dev Changelog·8wdaily.dev skills are here
daily.dev launched Skills, a set of plug-and-play integrations that connect AI coding agents to daily.dev's real-time, community-vetted developer content. Three skills are available: daily-dev (personalized feed, bookmarks, search), daily-dev-ask (developer-focused web search grounded in upvoted articles), and daily-dev-agentic (continuous self-improvement via fresh article ingestion). Skills work with Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, and OpenClaw, and require a Plus subscription. Setup takes about 30 seconds via the API settings page.
Collections·9wCursor AI Coding Assistant Now Available in JetBrains IDEs
Cursor AI coding assistant is now available inside JetBrains IDEs (IntelliJ IDEA, PyCharm, WebStorm) via the Agent Client Protocol (ACP). The integration gives developers access to frontier models from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and Cursor, along with secure codebase indexing and semantic search. It is free for paid Cursor plan subscribers and requires JetBrains IDE version 2025.3.2 or later with the AI Assistant plugin. The move is part of JetBrains' open ecosystem strategy to avoid vendor lock-in by supporting multiple AI agents.
Avalonia UI Blog·8wAvalonia for Visual Studio Code
The Avalonia team has released a preview of a fully rewritten Visual Studio Code extension for Avalonia UI development. Built on a new shared XAML parser that also powers the Visual Studio extension, it brings feature parity between both IDEs. Key improvements include dramatically enhanced IntelliSense with richer completions and x:DataType Quick Info, Go To Definition support, clearer error diagnostics, automatic XAML namespace imports, event handler generation, and a more reliable XAML previewer with better DPI handling and zoom features. Notably, the extension is now part of the paid Avalonia Accelerate subscription and is no longer open-source, though free community licences are available for organizations under €1M in revenue.
ByteMonk·10wTailwind CSS: The Web Dev Game Changer
Tailwind CSS rose to prominence by applying solid design principles: composition over inheritance (independent utility classes), convention over configuration (smart defaults), and locality of behavior (styles co-located with HTML). These qualities made it predictable and easy to learn. However, those same qualities made it trivially easy for AI tools like GitHub Copilot and ChatGPT to generate Tailwind code, which devastated the business model. Documentation traffic dropped, revenue fell ~80%, and 75% of the engineering team was laid off. The founder shut down the docs site, citing AI's brutal impact. The broader lesson: any developer tool that's easy to learn is also easy for AI to replicate, putting documentation-and-premium-component business models at risk.
Laravel News·8wBrowse and Execute Artisan Commands from an Interactive TUI
Artisan Browse is a Laravel package by Josh Embling that provides an interactive terminal UI (TUI) for discovering, searching, and executing Artisan commands without leaving the terminal. Key features include searchable command lists with descriptions, namespace filtering, step-by-step argument and option prompts, a command preview before execution, configurable blacklists and scroll behavior, and an auto-execute option. It is intended for local development use only.
Google Developers·9wIntroducing Finish Changes and Outlines, now available in Gemini Code Assist extensions on IntelliJ and VS Code
Google's Gemini Code Assist extensions for IntelliJ and VS Code now include two new features: Finish Changes and Outlines. Finish Changes acts as an AI pair programmer that observes in-progress edits, pseudocode, and comments to complete code tasks without requiring explicit prompts, using a 'show, don't tell' approach. Outlines generates concise English summaries interleaved directly within source code to aid comprehension and navigation. Both features are powered by Gemini 3.0 and are invoked via keyboard shortcuts (Option/ALT+F and Option/ALT+O respectively).
Laravel News·9wPolyscope Is an Ai-First Dev Environment for Orchestrating Agents
Beyond Code has launched Polyscope, a free macOS tool for orchestrating multiple AI agents simultaneously. Key features include copy-on-write clones for fast agent branching, a built-in preview browser for visual prompting, the ability to query multiple models collaboratively, and support for connecting workspaces to multiple repositories. It offers a free plan alongside paid options for solo developers and teams.
Adam Argyle·10wMy OpenClaw Token Dashboard · March 2, 2026
A developer built a static Astro dashboard to track AI assistant token usage and costs across Discord threads, cron jobs, and projects. By parsing JSONL session logs with a Node.js script, they discovered two Discord threads accounted for 60% of total spend. The key insight: long-running Discord threads act as context traps, accumulating conversation history and inflating costs. The fix involves starting fresh threads per topic, using sub-agents for isolated tasks, and treating catch-all channels as lobbies rather than workspaces.
JetBrains·7wCore JavaScript and TypeScript Features Will Be Free in IntelliJ IDEA
JetBrains is making core JavaScript, TypeScript, HTML, and CSS features free in IntelliJ IDEA starting with v2026.1. Previously restricted to Ultimate subscribers, the free tier will now include syntax highlighting, code completion, import management, basic React support, code navigation, refactorings, quality inspections, and integrated tooling for Prettier, ESLint, Vite, and NPM scripts. Advanced features like dedicated debuggers, test runners, and full framework support (Angular, Vue) remain part of the Ultimate subscription, which offers a 30-day free trial.
Product Hunt·7wOpenAdapter: Every open-source SOTA model in your editor
OpenAdapter is a single subscription service providing access to multiple open-source SOTA AI coding models (Minimax, GLM, Qwen, Mistral, Kimi, DeepSeek) through one OpenAI-compatible endpoint. It eliminates the need for multiple AI coding subscriptions by letting developers configure their editor once and switch models from a dashboard. Compatible with Cursor, Claude Code, Windsurf, Cline, Aider, and other IDEs.
JetBrains·8wJava 26 in IntelliJ IDEA
Java 26 was released on March 17, 2026, delivering ten JEPs with five finalized. There are no new stable language features, but notable additions include HTTP/3 support in the HTTP Client API, AOT cache improvements for any garbage collector (Project Leyden), G1 GC throughput improvements, warnings for deep reflection on final fields, and removal of the Applet API. Preview features include primitive types in patterns (fourth preview), lazy constants (formerly stable values), structured concurrency, and PEM encoding/decoding. The Vector API continues as an incubator feature. IntelliJ IDEA 2026.1 supports all Java 26 features from day one, including new inspections, debugger improvements for virtual threads in structured concurrency, and tooling for lazy constants. A JetBrains contributor also added min/max default methods to java.util.Comparator in the JDK.
Theo - t3․gg·7wEverything needs to change
Current IDEs and coding tools are fundamentally misaligned with how developers work in the agentic AI era. The argument is that we've evolved from simple text editors to IDEs to AI sidebars and CLI tools, but none of these are sufficient for managing multiple parallel agent-driven projects simultaneously. What's needed is a 'bigger IDE' — a single application that orchestrates multiple codebases, terminals, browsers, and AI agents at once, rather than forcing developers to mentally map relationships across separate apps. Tools like T3 Code and Semox are early steps in this direction, but the real solution hasn't been built yet. The opportunity is wide open for developers to experiment and define what the next generation of development environments looks like.
DEV·8wI Built a Browser UI for Claude Code — Here's Why
Claudeck is a browser-based UI for Claude Code built in two weeks by a solo developer frustrated with terminal-only limitations. It connects to the Claude Code SDK in-process via WebSocket, offering 50+ features including a parallel 2x2 chat grid, cost analytics dashboard, AI workflows with multi-step pipelines, autonomous agent DAGs with a visual SVG editor, Telegram-based remote tool approval, prompt templates, file explorer, git panel, and a plugin system. Built with vanilla JS and only six npm dependencies, it runs entirely locally with no cloud or telemetry. Key gaps include no authentication, no multi-CLI support, and no live file editing.
NeetCode·10wBuilding the Future of coding, OpenCode with Dax Raad
Dax Raad, co-creator of OpenCode, discusses the origins and philosophy behind the open-source AI coding agent. He explains why Claude Code was the first AI tool that stuck with his terminal-focused team, and how OpenCode's positioning as a model-agnostic, open-source tool drives its success more than product quality alone. Dax shares candid views on the agentic coding race, competition with Claude Code and OpenAI, acquisition offers the team has declined, and the real dynamics of code quality vs. speed trade-offs. He also reflects on how LLMs are changing developer workflows, skill atrophy risks, and whether coding is losing its fun.
JetBrains·8wIntelliJ IDEA 2025.3.4 is Out!
IntelliJ IDEA 2025.3.4 has been released, bringing full support for Java 26 as the headline feature. The update also includes several bug fixes: a fix for HTTP requests accidentally triggering other requests in the same file, improved local changes refresh in large Perforce projects, and a correction for the Dependencies tab when using Analyze Cyclic Dependencies. The update is available via the IDE itself, Toolbox App, snaps, or direct download.