Rui CarmoVisual Studio Code became my de facto default editor (well, other than vim back in 2016 (years before I joined Microsoft) simply because it was inhumanly fast for an Electron application and completely usable on Mac and Linux from day one.
Throughout the years, its Monaco editor, support for every single programming language I wanted to use and explosive extension ecosystem just made it better and more “sticky”, and I use it daily on almost every single device I own (including the iPad, via Blink).
Resources
| Category | Date | Link | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Data Science | 2025 | positron | a fork designed to be used as a one-stop data science IDE |
| Debugging | 2022 | debug-visualizer | |
| Diagramming | draw.io | ||
| Notetaking | 2024 | Foam | way better than Obsidian for my use case |
| 2023 | VS Code Wiki | mostly compatible with |
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| 2022 | Markdown+Math | ||
| Productivity | 2026 | Agent Kanban | VS Code extension that wires a drag-and-drop Kanban board to GitHub Copilot Chat, storing each task as a markdown file with YAML metadata so you can plan/todo/implement with @kanban commands while keeping a version-controlled chat history. |