YouTube·5wStop Watching Tutorials. Do This Instead
Advice for beginners on how to learn programming effectively. Key points: pick one learning path and stick with it, use free resources like YouTube, freeCodeCamp, or CS50, choose VS Code as your IDE, and avoid relying on AI tools until you understand the basics. Also briefly promotes Orchids 1.0, an AI app builder that supports multiple project types and lets you bring your own API keys.
John Liter·3wWhy 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.
DevBlogs·4wAwesome GitHub Copilot just got a website, and a learning hub, and plugins!
The Awesome GitHub Copilot community repo has grown to 600+ resources including 175+ agents, 208+ skills, 176+ instructions, and 48+ plugins. Microsoft is launching a dedicated website at awesome-copilot.github.com with full-text search, modal previews, and one-click VS Code installs. A new Learning Hub explains core customization concepts like skills, plugins, and hooks. Awesome Copilot is now a default plugin marketplace for both GitHub Copilot CLI and VS Code, allowing installs via a simple CLI command. New resource types include Agentic Workflows (natural-language GitHub Actions running AI agents autonomously) and Hooks (event-triggered automations during Copilot coding sessions).
Avalonia UI Blog·4wAvalonia 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.
Visual Studio Code·6wCopilot CLI in VS Code
GitHub Copilot CLI now automatically detects open VS Code instances and connects to them, allowing developers to share the same session context across both environments. This means you can start a Copilot session in the CLI, then continue it in VS Code and switch back and forth while maintaining full context, making it easy to view and edit files in the IDE while still using the CLI workflow.
Google Developers·5wIntroducing 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).
Visual Studio Code·3wVisual Studio Code 1.114
VS Code 1.114 release notes covering two updates: pinned chat sessions now display a pin icon indicator in the sessions list, and a new `${taskVar:name}` variable allows capturing dynamic values from a task's problem matcher output for use in launch configurations.
Theo - t3․gg·4wEverything 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.