The Java ecosystem has historically been blessed with great IDEs to work with, including NetBeans, Eclipse and IntelliJ from JetBrains. However, in recent years Microsoft's Visual Studio Code editor ...

Another big drawback: Any modules not written in pure Python can’t run in Wasm unless a Wasm-specific version of that module is compiled ahead of time. Unless you have a specially compiled version of, ...

Now shipping in the VS Code Insiders build, Microsoft's new Visual Studio Code Agents preview offers an early look at a separate companion app for agent sessions, approvals, workspace discovery, and ...

Understanding the purpose of each tool is crucial. Claude Code and OpenAI Codex differ in how they integrate into your Windows workflow. OpenAI Codex is a cloud-first coding assistant that runs on ...

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This change is reportedly being pushed by Scott Hanselman, a Microsoft veteran of over two decades who currently serves as Vice President and Member of Technical Staff. If it goes through, it would ...

Preview of new companion app allows developers to run multiple agent sessions in parallel across multiple repos and iterate ...

A Local Account and Windows have always gone hand to hand. Many would like to have an account that is not connected to the internet at all. Plain old simple local account. However, starting with ...

Mark Kashef examines how integrating Obsidian, a markdown-based note-taking application, with Claude Code, an AI-driven automation system, can streamline information management. Obsidian’s graph ...

A Microsoft account has some advantages, but a local account is fine for Windows 11. Microsoft doesn't make it easy to set up a local account on a new PC. There are workarounds, but they depend on ...