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Camilo Martinez
Camilo Martinez

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If you could install only one VSCode extension?

Halloween it's near, witches and sorcerers are among us... making his own magic potion. And me too... Muajajajaja!

Alt Magic Spell

  • Seven unsolved issues exist from version 1
  • Thirty TODO comment lines
  • Some spiders web
  • Ten drops coffee from java
  • Eight virgin libraries
  • Follow three repositories with 0 stars
  • One unused ASCII table
  • Two broken laptops
  • Junior developer's tears

And finally, the secret ingredient...

  • One Rubik's cube solved in less than 10 seconds!

Evil laugh! Trumpeting of thunders in the distance!

Dance around the pot, chanting.

Abracadabra! Abracadabra! Abracadabra!

Booom!!! Almost each one of us creates a post like this:

My preciousss! Gollum! Gollum!

It's like your own perfect spell, but only work in your reign!

That's why I think this kind of post is a useless thing than others can ever seen. It's a post made only for you.

Alt Creepy Ghost

But now imagine this creepy story:

  • An evil ghost was seized Visual Studio Code and limited to install one extension.
  • Ohhh no! Who you gonna call?
  • Ghostbuster!
  • No, they are busy this month
  • El Chapulín Colorado?
  • Who? No!
  • So?
  • You need to choose one
  • Only one?
  • Yep, sorry
  • Crap!

Alt Only One

  • What would it be... and why?

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That's All Folks!
Happy Halloween 🎃💀

beer

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Camilo Martinez • Edited

For me: Settings Sync

BTW what gonna sync if can only have one?

Ridiculous

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Fernando B 🚀

Settings sync lol

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John Bull

Prettier. Having to not remove spacing and fix my code when I indent to far is a huge timesaver.

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Camilo Martinez

And no more fights on merge due differences between developers.

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John Bull

Great point!

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Camilo Martinez

I already walked through this hell

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Esteban Rocha

I'll cheat on that one and take Vs Code VIM Not for being a fanboy, but if there is only one slot, VIM keybindings and functionalities will make it work like if you have several extensions

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Jean-Michel Plourde

That is definitely what I would pick. Since I recently learned VIM keybindings, I can't live without them.

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Benny Leung

for work: gitlens
Because some strange code is come from client request, but undocumented, need to find out who write that and document that

Sorry of my English

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Ryan Kennedy

Too often I find that I'm the one who wrote the code... 🤦‍♂️

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Camilo Martinez

No problem bro, we are here to learn, even English like me. Keep practicing.

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Camilo Martinez

I tried Git Lens but have a lot options, that why I use git-blame but as @ryaninvents says I see my user involved many times LOL

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Alex Lohr

I'd create a pack extension of all the extensions I need and install that. You might call that cheating, but see how much I care :)

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Brian Lampe

"I would wish for more wishes"

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Camilo Martinez

And how can I do that? 😍

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Alex Lohr
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Camilo Martinez

Thanks... now I can make real my Halloween spell.

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rhymes

The theme: One Dark Pro

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Camilo Martinez

Be careful. Ghosts likes live in dark places!

Happy Haloween!

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Juan F Gonzalez

For me would be the theme generator which I can't remember the name as of right now, but it's pretty cool and I no longer need to spend any more time looking for themes on the internet when I get bored of the current one.

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aly quey

vim 🙁

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Nick Taylor
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Ryan

I had to check which ones were actually extensions. VSCode is great with adding features.

That said, it would have to be PHP Debug -- How can I work at all without remote debugging?

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Camilo Martinez • Edited

Oh man I have no idea, hope someone that develop with PHP can help you with that.