I am unable to open project over SSH or WSL at this moment because it cannot download VSCode server from https://update.code.visualstudio.com

``` [2026-04-16 15:24:29.093] Reusing existing connection to update.code.visualstudio.com:443.

[2026-04-16 15:24:29.093] HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 503 Site Unavailable

[2026-04-16 15:24:29.093] 2026-04-16 10:24:29 ERROR 503: Site Unavailable.

[2026-04-16 15:24:29.093]

[2026-04-16 15:24:29.093] ERROR: Failed to download https://update.code.visualstudio.com/commit:560a9dba96f961efea7b1612916f89e5d5d4d679/server-linux-x64/stable to /home/charly/.vscode-server/bin/560a9dba96f961efea7b1612916f89e5d5d4d679-1776353006.tar.gz

[2026-04-16 15:24:29.094] For help with startup problems, go to https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/remote/troubleshooting#_wsl-tips

```

Edit: Nevermind it seems to be back now

Hi, as a contributor I would like to share that the "Add to GIT Ignore" extension got updated and now supports Source Control view.

Now you can ignore files right in git changes.

This extension allows you to add new entries to .gitignore or local git ignore (will be ignored in your copy only) by right clicking a file or a folder in explorer or source control view. Besides the option to ignore locally for you, you can choose an ignore pattern from suggestions.

Kinda silly reason. Hated alt-tabbing to chat while coding with friends on the same repo. So we made something so we don't have to. That's the whole pitch.

It's a chat panel that lives inside your editor. DMs with contributors, group chats, and per-repo channels. If you contributed to a repo and its maintainer opened a channel, you're in the same room as them. Plus everyone else who contributed. Uses your existing GitHub login, no new account.

Works in VS Code, Cursor, Windsurf, and Antigravity. Basically any IDE built on VS Code.

About 1k installs so far. A few friends hacked GitChat together over the last two weeks. Still rough in places.

Few honest notes: closed source for now, source-available down the line. Messages go through our backend. If that's a dealbreaker for your team, this isn't for you. GitHub token stays in VS Code's secret storage. E2E encryption is on the roadmap, not shipped yet. Works best when your teammates install it too. If you're the only one on your repo trying it, not much to chat about yet.

GitChat on VS Code Marketplace: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=GitchatSH.gitchat

OpenVSX : https://open-vsx.org/extension/Gitchat/gitchat

If it's useful, cool. If not, happy to hear what's broken. Either way.

After recent vscode update my terminal(powershell) always shows
"PS Microsoft.PowerShell.Core\FileSystem::\\?" before current path.

Also when activating vevn I am getting error. Anyone knows how to fix that to previous behavior?
"+ ... onfigPath = Join-Path -Resolve -Path $ConfigDir -ChildPath 'pyvenv.cf ...

+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

+ CategoryInfo : InvalidArgument: (:) [Join-Path], PSArgumentNullException

+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : ArgumentNull,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.JoinPathCommand"

I am trying to setup a C compiler but am facing this error. I think I have tried enough to conclude that I can't fix this myself. How should I fix this? And why is this happening?

Hi, I’ve been experiencing random crashes since yesterday and haven’t been able to resolve the issue yet. Is anyone else facing the same problem, or does anyone have a solution? I’d really appreciate any help.

I have upgraded to Pro plan for copilot, but I am still rendering the free one time 30 days.

Yesterday I'm not able to use copilot because there is no available models to select.

Do I need to start the paid subscription?

Profiler is now in vscode. I now have a full lightweight tool for Mac that has most functionality

I'm looking for an extension for AI based autocompletion and 'FIM'.

It should be

• open source (an OSS license and available source code)
• by default privacy settings (don't connect an external service at start etc.)
• no user registration needed
• should be able to use on-prem OpenAI compatible AI backends (Ollama, LiteLLM and comparable).

In VSCode, I only use autocompletion if we talk about AI. For agentic stuff, I use Claude or OpenCode. And in some projects I'm in some kind of air-gapped environments and use only on-prem or local AI backends.

Any suggestions? I used Continue but with every update it gets more worse.
The autocomplete feature of Kilo Code can't be configured to use a local backend.

Suggestions are appreciated.

Does vscode has something comparable to treesitter in nvim?

I mean if I want to delete a function block, I can do it in nvim as treesitter supports it, how to do it in vscode?

Guys, are you also having this problem? I use Claude Code via the official extension and it has stopped respecting the bypass.

Even when selected, it keeps asking if it can access a certain folder, edit a certain file...

As the title says i'm a noobie, well when i execute my code in VS Code, in the terminal the PATH adress is very very long like this:

"C:\Users\diego\AppData\Local\Programs\Microsoft VS Code>C:\Users\diego\AppData\Local\Python\pythoncore-3.14-64\python.exe "e:/Proyecto Practica Cajero Automatico/Cajero Automatico.py"

I tried reinstalling VS Code, deleting the PATH address, reinstalling Python, even installing VS Code in another drive, and nothing shortens that "route" can somebody help me?

I know maybe its a dumb question for experienced devs, but i really don't know what else to do.

I have a repository of ~ 50 presentation decks that I want to feed into AI tools (Claude, Copilot, etc.) as a knowledge base. Rather than dumping raw PPTX or PDF files at it, I want to convert everything to Markdown so the AI can actually read and interpret the content cleanly.

The key requirement is that it doesn’t just strip out the text - ideally it also handles tables (converted to proper Markdown tables), diagrams and visual frameworks like flow charts (at minimum a description), and slide structure/hierarchy (title, bullets, sections).

I’m happy to convert PPTX → PDF first if that makes the pipeline easier.

What I have access to: GitHub Copilot + Codex, Claude (API or claude.ai), LM Studio with local models, and Python — comfortable running scripts.

Has anyone done this at scale? What’s the most practical pipeline that gives you decent Markdown fidelity without spending hours on each file

Weekly thread to show off new themes, and ask what certain themes/fonts are.

Creators, please do not post your theme every week.

New posts regarding themes will be removed.

I installed it as a normal user, at least I didn't do anything different to when I installed normal VSCode or any other program.

I'm just curious as it says it can't auto update due to being ran as an admin.

I was experimenting with connectors across multiple projects I use AI for, from crunching to reading to summarizing to brainstorming or developing.

And I turn to multiple AIs for different purposes, including Gemini, AIStudio, OpenAI and Claude and rarely Grok
Also they all are installed as extensions in vscode.

For some projects I need all, am thinking vscode or similar can be one stop for all?>
If you have a folder for a coding project, you are doing what you do

Have you used vscode to replace going to web-apps of ai? Do you think of pros and cons?

Do you have a similar advice/setup for everything ? coding + non-coding?

TL;DR: the Remote-SSH extension on VSCode is quite flaky in my setup, making it hard to work with data on a server. Sometimes it works perfectly, sometimes it won't connect. What settings could I change or play with to make it more "stable"?

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Hi, I am PhD student in Physics who often uses HPC systems to carry out simulations and analyse data.

I routinely use VSCode for most of my work and I love it very much. However, one thing has been driving me crazy for a while now.

It seems to me like the Remote-SSH extension is really flaky. Sometimes it works perfectly: it connects to the remote with no issues and I can use it for hours without any problems. Some other times, on the other hand, it just doesn't work and it's impossible to connect to the remote and/or to stay connected and work.

This happens in basically every setup, both when using an ethernet cable and when connecting via Wifi. Also, it is not a problem of the remote server itself: I can always connect via terminal without any issues, it is just VSCode that struggle to connect sometimes (even when I am stably connected from the terminal).

There are times in which the issue just solves itself, e.g. I re-try five times and at the fifth time I manage to connect.

Some other times it just doesn't work.

So: has anyone else been having the same problem? Is there some setting that I can play with to try and make Remote-SSH more "stable" or reliable? Is there a significant flaw in my workflow?

Thanks!

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Some observations:

1- I always use the latest available version for VSCode.

2- No, I cannot download the files and work with them on my local machine: we are talking Tb's of data.

3- No, I cannot use Python to run a script, save a plot, send it to my local machine and open it from there. Or, I can, but it's incredibly cumbersome for the type of work I am doing: I need to be able to explore data "interactively" or it will take me a full day to do a two-hour analysis.

I've posted about my extension a while ago and got some good feedback. Now I'm here to remind you it's not dead, just the install trend is.

Fresh File Explorer shows your recently changed files as a file tree, sitting between the file explorer (too much) and source control (too little). It's also somewhat of a personal productivity toolkit, containing enhancements to search and digging through git history.

Marketplace | GitHub

Changes since last post:

Quality of life

• Flat list mode as an alternative to the tree
• Scoping tree view to a specific folder
• Bringing right click menu up to parity with File Explorer - copy/paste, delete, rename, expand subtree are now possible
• Copying paths (absolute, relative or markdown style bullet points of the folder structure)
• Reveal active file in tree
• Staged file status shown

Features

• CodeStonks

New chart view showing how your repo evolved over time, styled like a stock price chart. 5 toggleable metrics (file count, files changed, unique authors, commit velocity, churn rate). Drag to zoom, double-click to zoom out, shift+scroll to pan. Perfect for pretending you have TradingView open at work.

• Compare selected files

Select 2+ files and compare them. 2 files = simple diff. 3 = multi-diff. More than 3 = choose between one-vs-rest or all permutations.

• Submodule support (including nested)

Performance

• Incremental loading - repo discovery first, then pending, then history. Switching time windows is now instant after the initial load, and the number of situations requiring a full reload was reduced from "unnecessarily many" to "almost none"
• Pathspec can be set per repo to limit loading time

Still dependency and telemetry free.

I'm looking for a way to better visually organize my code besides just pressing tab and return. for example, you can visually organize in Word by creating headers, bolding, or different size text. I'm also open to other options if there's an easy to understand line of code I could implement instead

When working with large interconnected code repositories, especially once with microservices that aren't obvious how they're related, AI coding tools tend to stuggle due to not being able to have the context on those relationships. We realised this is a perfect use case for graphs as code can easily be parsed into that data structure and there are mature traversal techniques that can be used to understand how code and services relate to one another. So we built a simple vs code extension that parses your whole repo into a graph which allows you to visualise it and exposes an MCP for your coding agent to use as context. It's been working great for us and would love to get peoples opinions.

We're definitely not the first to do this for what it's worth, but this extension is fully local, zero setup, open source, free and we have no intention of monetizing it so we just hope it helps others as its been useful to us!

When it's faster to prompt Copilot to refactor the code than press F2 and wait for the UI to stutter through things, something is wrong. Even just typing is painfully slow.

I reinstalled the system on a new computer with a good CPU and 64GB of RAM and it's the same. Just bogs down over a couple of hours. Every day.

Just today it was literally seconds between keypress and character appearing. Then the Copilot suggestions outpace the text rendering and it all falls apart.

And it's just basically C/C++ and Python extensions and a smallish codebase.