Announcement about the new modal editor.
> We are experimenting with a new modal editor experience for editors that you typically open briefly and then return to your active task. A modal editor floats on top of the editor without impacting the layout of your editor tabs. To close the modal editor, press Escape. The modal has an action to move the editor back into an editor tab, as well as an action to maximize the modal experience.
Also, I am a huge fan of the new modal editors - settings no longer have to open as a dedicated tab.
It's still experimental but I think it makes a lot of sense for quickly modifying settings.
06.03.2026 20:14
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Some other awesome stuff in these announcements:
🖼️ Kitty graphics terminal rendering (i.e. pictures in your console!)
🧬 Unified settings for JavaScript+TypeScript
🐍 Python Environments Extension is stable (works across env managers, includes uv integration)
🤫 Set eagerness for AI code completion
06.03.2026 20:14
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TypeScript 6.0 RC is out 🎉
🔶 Temporal
🔶 Map#getOrInsert
🔶 RegExp.escape
🔶 #/ prefix for Package Imports
New defaults!
🔶 --target=ES2025
🔶 "use strict"
🔷 --strict
Deprecations!
🗑️ baseUrl, outFile
🗑️ import assertions
🗑️ `module` namespaces
🗑️ module: amd
🗑️ moduleResolution: node
🗑️ target: ES5
06.03.2026 19:49
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February 2026 (version 1.110)
What's new in the Visual Studio Code February 2026 Release (1.110).
Agents, for real work.
The latest VS Code release gives you better agent orchestration, extensibility, and continuity.
Here's what's new:
🪝 Hooks support
🎯 Message steering and queueing
🌐 Agentic integrated browser
🧠 Shared memory
And more...
🔎 Full release notes: aka.ms/VSCode/110
05.03.2026 15:27
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A screenshot of VS Code showing a long-distance next edit suggestion
Next edit suggestions just leveled-up in VS Code: with long-distance NES, you get edit suggestions anywhere in your file, not just near your cursor's position.
Learn how the team built this - creating the training dataset, refining the UX, evaluating success, and more: aka.ms/VSCode/long-...
26.02.2026 18:47
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🚀 Insiders Update - Feb 21-Feb 23
✨ Redesigned chat model picker with recent models and search
https://code.visualstudio.com/updates/v1_110
#vscode
23.02.2026 16:30
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The PostgreSQL team at Microsoft is hiring for a developer advocate, remote-friendly:
https://apply.careers.microsoft.com/careers/job/1970393556753261
I've worked with that team a bunch, and it's a good group of intelligent and friendly people.
23.02.2026 17:03
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Fastest Frontend Tooling for Humans & AI
Frontend tooling in 2026+, with and without AI.
"tsgo caught type errors that the JavaScript implementation didn’t catch! I adopted tsgo in 20+ projects ranging from 1,000 to 1,000,000 lines of code, and it has improved iteration speed quite a bit."
cpojer.net/posts/fastes...
18.02.2026 22:57
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What kinds of things are you hitting there? Stale errors? Error popups?
12.02.2026 19:52
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console.log("Hello, World!");
Follow for updates on every new release of @vscode.dev!
11.02.2026 23:36
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Some pretty awesome improvements in 1.26 for compiling/testing typescript-go.
With a clean build/test cache, running the full test suite used to take 3m45s, but now takes just 2m10s.
11.02.2026 19:17
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A line chart showing many lines, each representing the time take to type check a package, all decreasing over a one-month span.
Our tsgo adoption at Vanta has been pretty high-impact. Everything is so, so much faster now.
11.02.2026 17:12
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TypeScript 6.0 Beta is out 🎉
🔶 Temporal
🔶 Map#getOrInsert
🔶 RegExp.escape
🔶 #/ prefix for Package Imports
New defaults!
🔶 --target=ES2025
🔶 "use strict"
🔷 --strict
Deprecations!
🗑️ baseUrl, outFile
🗑️ import assertions
🗑️ `module` namespaces
🗑️ module: amd
🗑️ moduleResolution: node
🗑️ target: ES5
11.02.2026 20:10
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Made a few updates to the post - specifically:
- es2025 target
- new library additions/updates
- deprecation of node10
bsky.app/profile/type...
11.02.2026 22:01
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reddit comment with the contents
"i've been waiting for typescript 6, hopefully it fixes the annoying issues i've been having with 5, specifically the whole module resolution thing"
Probably as specific as anyone really needs to get
11.02.2026 19:59
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"You know, I actually don't hate it anymore. It's actually pretty good."
Glowing endorsements from my Python friends. 🥰
10.02.2026 21:30
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By the way, TypeScript is finally strict by default 🎉
05.02.2026 17:05
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👀 TypeScript 6.0 (beta) drops next week
It should be the last JS-based TSC version
(no 6.1.*, only patches)
TypeScript 6.0 is a “bridge release ” toward TypeScript 7.0, written in Go, ~10x faster
github.com/microsoft/Ty...
05.02.2026 16:59
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You told us you’re running multiple AI agents and wanted a better UX. We listened and shipped it!
Here’s what’s new:
🗂️ Unified agent sessions workspace for local, background, and cloud agents
🔀 Parallel subagents
💻 Claude and Codex support for local and cloud agents
🌐 Integrated browser
& more...
04.02.2026 18:45
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Also let us know if anything significant feels missing. We're not going to have *everything* 100% off the bat, but knowing what people look for can help us prioritize.
03.02.2026 20:24
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On the editor side let us know if you see any instability. Smaller & detailed repros help there. I often find it's better to pause, write down what I'm running into, and try to minimize it in detail later, instead of doing it at the moment.
03.02.2026 20:22
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TypeScript excitement 😉
Congrats to @jakebailey.dev on updating upstream tsc to default to an unpinned *latest* yearly edition of ES20xx. Heading for TS 6.0 🎉
This mean less transpilation of new JS features & more use of native language features provided by JS engines 👍
github.com/microsoft/Ty...
31.01.2026 10:37
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You gotta be prepared with a lie to make them feel bad about taking too much time.
19.01.2026 20:57
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Do not give up your brain
It's tempting to just let tools think for you, but you still need to be able to think for yourself and stay sharp.
"Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them."
― Frank Herbert, Dune
cassidoo.co/post/good-br...
17.01.2026 03:32
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The one time I tried this I wish I had used half the espresso it called for.
17.01.2026 01:00
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