Articles for #vscode

Welcome back to the Nix on Mac series! By the end of this post, you’ll be able to fully configure VSCode through your Nix flake via home-manager, which we set up in part 2. This includes:

• Custom keybindings and settings
• Installing themes and extensions from a nixpkgs overlay
• Properly aliasing VSCode and other macOS applications to /Applications for Spotlight

One of my first posts on this blog in 2020 was about my experience switching from VSCode to Emacs for all of my text/code editing work. I still agree with all of the benefits to Emacs I wrote about back then, and my posts on Obsidian show my respect for org-mode as a format and the ecosystem around it – especially org-agenda. However, as you might have noticed when the file extension on my posts switched from .org back to .md, I’ve moved on from Emacs for now. But I’m happy with how I’ve moved my good habits back to VSCode. Spending time on config gave me more confidence in my ability to configure software I use to my liking, and make software work for me rather than make me work for the software.