Blog (Page 17 of 19)

  1. Visual Studio Code Snippets – the Definitive VS Code Snippet Guide for Beginners

    Snippets can help you write code more efficiently. They can save you typing out the same things again and again.

  2. VS Code’s secret snippets

    Did you know that VS Code has built-in snippets? They are not documented. There is no way to browse them in VS Code. How do you find out about them?

  3. Customize your VS Code setup for a project, or for a language

    You may want to want VS Code setup differently for a specific project or when working with a particular language. What is the simplest way?

  4. How to use VS Code as your Git editor, difftool, and mergetool

    Do you use VS Code as your default Git editor? Let’s look at the potential benefits of using VS Code as a fully-fledged Git partner, and how you can do it.

  5. The easy way to find the perfect font and theme combination

    Personalising the look of your editor can give your digital life a more homely feeling. How can you find the perfect theme and font efficiently?

  6. VS Code - You don’t need that extension

    There are quite a few features and settings that ably do the work of many popular extensions. Take a look, you may not need that extension!

  7. Animating text along a path (it’s easy)

    It is easy to animate text along a path. You can use it to make some fun effects. All you need is some SVG and a sprinkle of JavaScript.

  8. Happier markdown: lint, spellcheck, auto-preview, and more

    I was getting some reoccurring issues when publishing my markdown documents. I will discuss how I created a better markdown workflow.

  9. From ‘A’ to ‘Web App’: Test an API in Java

    I will break down the different strategies and tools for testing an API. I will test the application from my previous post.

  10. What languages and tools do you use that spark joy?

    What if you gathered all of your digital ‘things’ together, and decide what to keep from each category. What would you choose?