Leonardo Montini

The most upvoted feature ever on Visual Studio Code is coming soon! 🚀 That's not a clickbait headline, with 2885 upvotes on the GitHub Issue it's actually ranked first. A limitation that Visual Studio Code always had was that everything had to stay inside the main window, without multi-screen support for example. This limitation will be removed quite soon, with the new floating window feature! You can drag a tab outside the main window and a floating window will appear! It's not on the stable version yet (1.84) but you can already use it in the Insiders Edition.

Each Visual Studio Code update brings new features to GitHub Copilot Chat, let's see some of them! Agents is probably the most powerful! It provides an AI trained in a very specific field, which can also be your internal documentation and repositories, giving bespoke answers to your needs. The quick chat can also give you terminal-related suggestions and with a single click you can paste the generated command ready to use. Eager to learn about what's next? Here's the keyword... NEXT! You should follow the GitHub Next team in their research to learn what is coming soon. Did I also mention it replies in your language? Ciao Copilot! GitHub Next: https://githubnext.com/

Debugging a React app is far from being an easy task... if you don't know the tools you already have, for free! There are indeed some React-specific tools, but today let's see together one that actually works pretty much with everything! I'll use a simple React app as a playground, but the exact same instructions work for any other framework and language in general, with some little tweaks. I'm talking about the Visual Studio Code debugger.

A live interview (in Italian) where we talked about Open Source, local Meetups and large Events.

Contributing to a large Open Source project can be intimidating at first, but we see a clear reward. 🏆 How cool would it be to merge a PR on those projects? Let me share with you some tips on how to get started. In my case, this helped me secure a dozen PRs on Visual Studio Code in the past year. First of all, start small. Your first PR won't probably be the most amazing and useful feature of the year, however, let's see how you can get started! ⚠️ WARNING ⚠️ This also involves reading the documentation at some point.

Green squares on GitHub cannot automatically track every kind of contribution. 🟩 A simple example? Everything that happens outside the platform is clearly out of reach. It can be mentoring new contributors, talking about the project or giving suggestions in Discord, to name a few cases. What can we do about it? Listing the contributors in the README sounds like a good idea, but how? Add their GitHub handle? Write a line or two of description? Well, there's a tool called all-contributors which lets you manage an organized table in your README to give credit for all kinds of activities, grouped by category. A cool way to say thank you to everyone involved in the project, even if they're not actively closing Pull Requests. If you're a maintainer of a project and you're not using this tool yet, or if you're a contributor and you'd like your projects to use this tool, that's what today's video is about! :)

A beginner-friendly introduction on the steps you need in order to complete your Hacktoberfest challenge for the first time.

Templates can be created with Form Schema, a yml syntax that allows your GitHub Issue Templates to feature blocks and text to properly guide your contributors in creating a perfect issue.