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Adam Crockett
Adam Crockett

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Clippy in VSCode 😱

run, run while you can

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ai101gh

Looks like a great way to find older, more experienced coders. On a side note, haven't vs code extensions been found to have exploits?

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Adam Crockett

Everything in the world has exploits, this advice is coming from a cyber security practiced developer also I was around when windows 97 and 95 where a thing... Man I feel old.
The point is, don't worry so much, enjoy great tools (not this one)

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ai101gh

(Content warning - inappropriate comment/joke ahead) ... If there is a developer that uses VS code today who actually still loves clippy, perhaps they deserve to be exploited?!!πŸ˜ƒ. Again I apologise given your experience!

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Adam Crockett

I remember when monitors where as wide as they are thick πŸ‘΄

I always find deserving is often one sided. Anyways thanks for making me feel my age, I'm going to go lay down.

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Adam Crockett

For a post with 5 words and no tags, this is now at 4k views. That's viral isn't it, I absolutely didn't make clippy js or the vscode Lib that I'm posting about

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GrahamTheDev • Edited

β€œClippy for president!” - I am downloading it straight away!

I will just leave this here for fans of clippy:

An Animated Guide to Node.js Event Loop

Node.js doesn’t stop from running other operations because of Libuv, a C++ library responsible for the event loop and asynchronously handling tasks such as network requests, DNS resolution, file system operations, data encryption, etc.

What happens under the hood when Node.js works on tasks such as database queries? We will explore it by following this piece of code step by step.