Are there any dyslexic programmers available to offer advice on fonts?
I have poor eyesight and am currently awaiting an operation. In the meantime, I frequently zoom in and out while working, but I would like to find a better font. I experimented with OpenDyslexic (https://antijingoist.itch.io/opendyslexic), which works well on my phone for reading, but not so well in Visual Studio.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated!
Is there a way to create multiple #vscode profiles that share or inherit some part of the config? If I would like ot increase my font size in all profiles I would like to do it in a single file, instead of multiple profile configs.
Microsoft released an #AzureDevOps #mcp server so your AI agents can interact with your work items, repos, builds, pipelines, test plans, and more. It's still in preview. I love the one-click installer for #VSCode.
VS Code 1.101 Released with Tool Set, Custom Chat Mode & MCP Auth
https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2025/06/vs-code-1-101-released-tool-set-custom-chat/
Is there a fork/alt build of #VSCode without the #AI features? The time has come for one. More and more AI garbage (and they still can't make it indent code properly!) #FuckAI #OpenSource
yesterday #vscode got rolled back from version 1.101 to 1.80 the last before #salami hyped madness got the better of #code - by me intentionatly
it is faster now, not so sluggish,
less memory consumed
surprisingly batter consumption on mobile hot spot relaxed also
look to me, lot of unwanted and unmoral processing and data sharing has been stopped
also optout on update madness
MCP Server support in #vscode just got a massive upgrade! Full spec implementation with prompts, resources, sampling, and new auth flow!!!
Wow, VS Code at work can't Paste with a keyboard shortcut this morning. I changed nothing.
Hi @neil the gist of this may be interesting (without the AI, and the project isn't open source afaics):
> I [built] Tritium. Tritium aims to be the #lawyer's #VSCode: an all-in-one drafting cockpit that treats a deal's entire document suite as a single, searchable, AI-enhanced workspace while remaining fast, local, and secure.
> Tritium is implemented in Rust. It is cross-platform and I'm excited for the prospect of lawyers running #Linux as their daily driver.
So, is there any hope that the new #iPadOS26 will re-enable support for virtualization? Or at least allow running things like #vscode or #julialang? Or does the #iPad remain a vastly overpowered toy?
Visual Studio Code Now Supports Baseline, by @rviscomi.dev (@developers):
The #Zed text editor (https://zed.dev) finally opened early access program for their #Windows builds. I suggest everyone from the #Accessibility dev community to sign up for it, hopefully (maybe!) we will be able to shape its accessibility. Many sighted people from the Apple land praise it for speed and amount of useful functions. I won't quit using #VSCode of course, but why not to have another tool in the box?
The more I think about it, the more it seems to me that in this day and age with all the modern threats having a text editor that is capable to not only connect to the Internet, but also install some code packages from repositories (and probably do dependency resolving) is a recipe to catastrophe. Sooner or later.
It's probably one thing when you use a curated list of half a dozen addons that you can even personally peruse (or even contribute to). It's a whole other thing when you use some huge "distro" with probably hundreds of packages that also receive constant updates you cannot possibly control.
It's mostly about #Emacs, of course, but #vim is fully capable of it too. I won't even mention the likes of #VSCode.
We had a fair share of supply chain attacks in the recent years (npm, pip, even xz in some way). No reason to think no one's gonna use this channel of attack.
Maybe it's just my fibs. But there is some uneasy feeling about the fact that you edit, perhaps, extremely private, personal or sensitive texts while your editor runs some background code doing who knows what. It's one thing to trust people who wrote vim or Emacs and a whole other thing to trust a hundred other unknown parties at the same time.
Hoping those familiar with #LaTeX can give me some advice here. I've started using it to create my assignments for school. I'm not writing technical papers yet, but I find using LaTeX with #Zotero in #VSCode more #accessible with a #ScreenReader than most other setups I've tried.
Since my discussion posts have to follow #APA style, I’m using LaTeX for those as well as full papers. That part is going well—but I’m running into trouble when I need to actually post what I’ve written.
My school uses Brightspace, which allows discussion posts in either rich text or #HTML. I have #Pandoc installed, so I tried converting my LaTeX source to HTML and pasting the code. But Pandoc didn’t include my references section in the output.
I also tried copying from the PDF, but that stripped all formatting.
Does anyone know how I can get a clean HTML version of my work—with references included—that I can paste into Brightspace?
Here’s the command I’ve been using:
pandoc main.tex \
--bibliography=references. Bib \
--csl=apa.csl \
--standalone \
-o main.html
It creates the HTML file, but the references section is missing.
Any tips?
#Accessibility #AssistiveTech #Pandoc #APAstyle #Brightspace #EdTech #AcademicWriting #InclusiveTech #BlindTech #HigherEd #CitationTools #OpenSource #WritingWorkflow
the future of microsoft 
Back on SublimeText for less than a week. Honestly can't really understand why I left it for VSCode in the first place. Current packages installed (theme Lyte to match PHPStorm - close):
SublimeLinter
AdvancedNewFile
BracketHighlighter
DocBlockr
Dotfiles Syntax Highlighting
EditorConfig
Emmet
FileIcons
GitGutter
Laravel Blade
Light Lite Color Scheme
Markdown
MarkdownEditing
Package Control
Phpcs
PowerShell
Pretty JSON
Tailwind CSS
Terminus
Theme - Lyte
Installing VS Code on Arch isn’t hard.
I'm trying out vscode atm. Do you really, unironically have to install an extension for it to be able to re-wrap a paragraph to a given width or am I missing something?
