Becoming a tech lead was the goal from pretty early in my career. I had a clear picture of what the role was. More responsibility, more influence over the work, more of the interesting problems landing on my desk because someone had to figure them out and that someone, finally, would be me. It read like the natural next step. The thing you graduate to once you're good enough. What that picture did
After developing Paledev Dark Theme for Visual Studio 2026, I decided to bring the same visual identity to Visual Studio Code. Paledev is a modern dark theme inspired by Palenight, built for better readability, stronger contrast, and long coding sessions. clear code readability balanced contrast a clean, consistent palette comfort during long sessions A theme is something you see for hours every d
The problem Every time you open ChatGPT or Claude, it has zero memory of your project. You spend the first 10 minutes of every session re-explaining your stack, your folder structure, your naming conventions, your architecture decisions, before you can ask the actual question you came to ask. 63% of developers in the Stack Overflow 2025 survey (49,000 respondents) said AI tools lack crucial contex
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I Built a VS Code Extension to Bring IntelliJ’s “Show History for Selection” Experience If you come from IntelliJ, you probably miss one super useful feature in VS Code: Show history for selected lines. I built a new extension to solve exactly that. Show History for Selected Code This extension helps you inspect Git history for a specific code selection, not just the whole file. Shows commit h
I have been meaning to upgrade my personal site to Astro 6 for a while. The release notes sat in my open tabs for weeks, and every time I sat down to do it, I found an excuse to work on something else. This week, I finally ran out of excuses. I carved out an afternoon, ran npx @astrojs/upgrade, crossed my fingers, and expected a smooth ride. The dev server crashed immediately with a cryptic error
For years, I called myself a web designer. Then a developer. Then a digital consultant. None of those titles ever felt quite right. Because clients weren't just asking me to build things. They were asking me to solve problems. Slow sites, broken checkouts, confusing navigation, teams that couldn't figure out how to update their own content. That's when I realized what a technology solutions profes
Microsoft's 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' Tag: Unpacking the Strategic Play for AI Dominance in VS Code The persistent insertion of 'Co-Authored-by: Copilot' into commit messages within VS Code—often irrespective of GitHub Copilot's active contribution to specific changes—is far from a benign engineering detail. It represents a calculated, multi-faceted strategic maneuver by Microsoft, signaling a pr