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VS Code Dev Containers

Sat, 10 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Remote-SSH

One of the things I’ve done a bit in Visual Studio Code is using it’s ability to work on a different machine over SSH. I have a couple of LXCs on a server set up for different languages - one for C++ and another for Rust. They are things I don’t work in often, and I didn’t want to set them up on my laptop, but thought I might want them again sometime in the future.

Use VS Code to work on remote files

Thu, 21 Sep 2023 00:00:00 +0000

If you’ve got a script, or some code to work on, and it’s on a VM somewhere, you can always ssh in and use nano or vim to make your edits. Like a caveman. With an archaic editor, no intellisense, and no spell checking.

Or….

This magic - of editing a files on a remote server over SSH is achieved by using a Microsoft plugin for VS Code - “Remote - SSH ”

Hide 'Problems' for a file in VS Code

Fri, 25 Aug 2023 00:00:00 +0000

I’m interested in trying out Pico CSS - a lightweight CSS library, but when I tossed it into my project, the linter found and reported 29 problems. One of my processes is to just keep that problems tab clear as I work, so I’d like that to go away.

It’s possible, but only by ’excluding’ the file from your project - it won’t show up in the file view either. That’s fine with me, I never want to deal with the file so we’ll do that, although it might confuse me in seven years if I come back to this project, so I’ll drop a link in my .git_ignore as a clue for future me (excluding the file in VS Code doesn’t affect git finding it).

Running Javascript in VS Code

Tue, 27 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000

I’ve been using the Live Server plugin to see HTML & CSS updated as I edit, and that will also be useful when I start using Javascript for web development, but as you can see above, I’m not quite up to that. It seemed there should be a way to run JS in VS Code, and it turns out it’s easy.

You just need something installed that can run Javascript. Node.js is the obvious choice, and you’re going to need it later in your development journey. Just install Node.js then the first time you try to run some JS in VS code, it will ask you what to use, select Node and you’re in business.

Who is Emmet?

Wed, 14 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000

I knew there was some magical way of entering all the the boilerplate in Visual Studio Code as I’d seen it happen in several videos, and assumed is was some sort of macro expansion thing in the editor. Fast forward a few blog post readings and youtube viewings and I keep seeing tangential references to someone called Emmet. Turns out they’re the same thing, and it’s pretty cool.

It’s not a new idea to have functionality in code editors to insert snippets of code. Emmet goes a bit further than that - and like many tools made by programmers for programmers it goes way to technical to the point where you need to memorise ridiculous amounts of combos to to some awesome stuff (I’m looking at you whoever made it possible to use vi commands in VS Code). Nevertheless, Emmet is extremely handy even at my n00b level.