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Indie App Spotlight:???Notepad.exe??? is an ultra-fast, lightweight code editor for your Mac
17+ hour, 21+ min ago (274+ words) Welcome to Indie App Spotlight. This is a weekly 9to5Mac series where we showcase the latest apps in the indie app world. If you’re a developer and would like your app featured, get in contact. Writing a little bit of code…...
How to Ship a VS Code Extension That Wraps an Existing Web Tool
21+ hour, 47+ min ago (156+ words) VS Code webviews are heavily sandboxed iframe environments designed to prevent malicious extensions from compromising the developer's local file system or IDE host process. If you attempt to load standard web application HTML inside a webview without modification, it will…...
Microsoft Decouples AI Agents From the VS Code Editor in Latest Release
1+ day, 19+ hour ago (270+ words) By: Tom Smith on August 14, 2026 Microsoft has shipped Visual Studio Code 1.133, and the headline change is architectural rather than cosmetic: AI agent sessions now run in a dedicated background process rather than within the editor’s extension host. “Moving agent sessions…...
A developer has created an extension that will help solve the problem of Chrome's "tab chaos"
2+ day, 1+ hour ago (386+ words) "My format for working with Chrome is one window per project. Each window has a bunch of pinned tabs: documentation, analytics, admin, repository, staging. And so on for each project. Every time I switch, it's unclear what to do with…...
Your App Is Open in 5 Tabs Right Now. Does It Know That?
1+ day, 22+ hour ago (419+ words) A few months ago I was working on an app where users manage playlists, the kind of thing where people naturally end up with three or four tabs open without thinking about it. A user added a track to a…...
Visual Studio 2026 Debugger Detection Failure
2+ day, 8+ hour ago (353+ words) Summer Bug Smash: Smash Stories 🐛🛹 This is a submission for DEV's Summer Bug Smash: Smash Stories powered by Sentry. I was building a Coding Activity Tracker to give me realistic timing for how long I actually spend coding — typing, reading,…...
Microsoft updates C++ build tools for Visual Studio
2+ day, 9+ hour ago (333+ words) Paul Krill is editor at large at InfoWorld. Paul has been covering computer technology as a news and feature reporter for more than 35 years, including 30 years at InfoWorld. He has specialized in coverage of software development tools and technologies since…...
Visual Studio Code 1.133 brings flexibility to Claude sessions
2+ day, 12+ hour ago (165+ words) Microsoft has released Visual Studio Code 1.133, an update to its code editor that brings more flexibility to Anthropic Claude sessions. The update also allows users to open the Agents window without signing in to GitHub. VS Code 1.133 was released August…...
Bloom Security Uncovers Supply-Chain Flaw in VS Code Extension Packs Affecting 500,000+ Downloads
2+ day, 22+ hour ago (767+ words) NewsBlaze is now an American company, and of course we are still news for Americans. At NewsBlaze we strive to provide useful news and information, and the editors work hard to maintain high editorial standards. We proofread and edit every…...
Visual Studio Code Now Lets You Use AI Agents Without GitHub
3+ day, 7+ hour ago (284+ words) Published on August 13, 2026 Visual Studio Code 1.133 is now available, and Microsoft is making its AI agent features easier to access without a GitHub account. Last week, Microsoft released Visual Studio Code 1.132, and the company has now followed it with Visual…...