renjujv

2025 Guide to Prompt Engineering in your editor for Software Engineers - May 18

Taken from https://read.highgrowthengineer.com/p/2025-guide-to-prompt-engineering?utm_source=substack&publication_id=1504485&post_id=163770890&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&utm_campaign=email-share&isFreemail=true&r=1tq5mv&triedRedirect=true&hide_intro_popup=true

If you’re a software engineer in 2025, you should be using Agent Mode in your editor, either in VSCode, Cursor, or Windsurf. It’s by far the single biggest productivity boost I’ve ever experienced.

If you haven’t tried it yet, it’s a more advanced ChatGPT in your editor that can understand your codebase, answer questions, write features for you, write tests, and review your changes. I usually use it to write features and answer questions for me.

Use agent mode in VS Code Agent Mode in VSCode making edits to the code For those who have or haven’t tried it, you’ll need to know how to prompt it to get the most out of it. Though many of the same principles apply, t

paolocarrasco

Problem

You have installed GPG, then tried to commit and suddenly you see this error message after it:

error: gpg failed to sign the data
fatal: failed to write commit object

Debug

DanielLoth

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-2
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-2:AU
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-2:NZ
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1_alpha-2
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1_alpha-3
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1_numeric
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_4217
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_639

ibraheem4

Installing Postgres via Brew

Pre-Reqs

Brew Package Manager

In your command-line run the following commands:

1. brew doctor
2. brew update

florentbr

To build the extension, update the username/password and zip `background.js` and `manifest.json` in a single archive.

kn9ts

[
  {
    "name": "",
    "official_name_en": "Channel Islands",
    "official_name_fr": "Îles Anglo-Normandes",
    "ISO3166-1-Alpha-2": "",
    "ISO3166-1-Alpha-3": "",
    "M49": "830",
    "ITU": "",
    "MARC": "",

Aquazus

public enum CurrencyCode {
  
    /*This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
    it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
    the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
    (at your option) any later version.

    This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
    but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
    MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the

nilz3ro

// Paste this in a node v4.x REPL.
// let iso = require('./iso.countries.js');
// iso.writeCountryJsonFile('test.js', (country) => { let o={}; o['name'] = country['name']; o['ISO3166-1-Alpha-2'] = country['ISO3166-1-Alpha-2']; o['code'] = country['ISO3166-1-Alpha-2']; o['Dial'] = country['Dial']; return o;});

'use strict';

let fs = require('fs');
let countries;

const writeCountryJsonFile = (outputFilename, mapFunction) => {

isaacs

echo 'export PATH=$HOME/local/bin:$PATH' >> ~/.bashrc
. ~/.bashrc
mkdir ~/local
mkdir ~/node-latest-install
cd ~/node-latest-install
curl http://nodejs.org/dist/node-latest.tar.gz | tar xz --strip-components=1
./configure --prefix=~/local
make install # ok, fine, this step probably takes more than 30 seconds...
curl https://www.npmjs.org/install.sh | sh