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Enabling VS Code Marketplace in VSCodium and Trae

Microsoft claims Visual Studio Code (VS Code) is open source, yet it restricts the use of its Marketplace extensions in non-Microsoft products like VSCodium (telemetry/tracking free open source fork), Cursor, Windsurf, Trae, and other VS Code-based IDEs, enforcing what some see as monopolistic control. This guide provides a workaround to enable the VS Code Marketplace in VSCodium and Trae (more to be added soon), allowing you to freely use extensions. Note that using the VS Code Marketplace with non-Microsoft products may violate its terms of use, which state that extensions are intended for use only with Microsoft Visual Studio products. Proceed at your discretion after reviewing the terms.

Enabling VS Code Marketplace in VSCodium

To configure VSCodium to use the VS Code Marketplace instead of the default OpenVSX Registry, you can either set environment variables or create a custom product.json file.

Kagi Oranginum Theme

This is a new theme that provides support for Apr10 UI update.

Old version available here

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ES Modules are terrible, actually

This post was adapted from an earlier Twitter thread.

It's incredible how many collective developer hours have been wasted on pushing through the turd that is ES Modules (often mistakenly called "ES6 Modules"). Causing a big ecosystem divide and massive tooling support issues, for... well, no reason, really. There are no actual advantages to it. At all.

It looks shiny and new and some libraries use it in their documentation without any explanation, so people assume that it's the new thing that must be used. And then I end up having to explain to them why, unlike CommonJS, it doesn't actually work everywhere yet, and may never do so. For example, you can't import ESM modules from a CommonJS file! (Update: I've released a module that works around this issue.)

And then there's Rollup, which apparently requires ESM to be u

WARNING

THIS GIST IS EXTREMELY OBSOLETE. DO NOT FOLLOW THESE INSTRUCTIONS. SERIOUSLY.

IF YOU IGNORE THE ABOVE WARNING, YOU AGREE IN ADVANCE THAT YOU DIDN'T GET THESE INSTRUCTIONS FROM ME, THAT I WARNED YOU, AND THAT I RESERVE THE RIGHT TO POINT AND LAUGH MOCKINGLY IF AND WHEN SOMETHING BREAKS HORRIBLY.

I'll do a write-up of current custom-kernel procedures over on Random Bytes ( https://randombytes.substack.com/ ) one day soon.

NOTE

ANSI Escape Sequences

Standard escape codes are prefixed with Escape:

Ctrl-Key: ^[
Octal: \033
Unicode: \u001b
Hexadecimal: \x1B
Decimal: 27

	:root {
	--font-main: "Inter", system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol";
	--font-lufga: "Inter", system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol";
	}

	.theme_dark, .theme_moon_dark, .theme_moon_dark_conditional {
	--app-bg: #181715;
	--page-text: #F2E6D7;
	--app-text: #F2E6D7;
	--primary: #F2E6D7;

	input ~ span:before,
	.leaderboard-entry,
	.privboard-row {
	font-family: "Source Code Pro", monospace;
	letter-spacing: 1px;
	}

	body * {
	text-shadow: none !important;
	}

	// init
	let xhr = new XMLHttpRequest()
	let domain = 'https://read.amazon.com/'
	let items = []
	let csvData = ""

	// function
	function getItemsList(paginationToken = null) {
	let url = domain + 'kindle-library/search?query=&libraryType=BOOKS' + ( paginationToken ? '&paginationToken=' + paginationToken : '' ) + '&sortType=recency&querySize=50'
	xhr.open('GET', url, false)

	#!/bin/bash

	python3 --version \|\| { echo "ERROR: Missing python3"; exit 1; }

	tmp=$(python3 -c "import os, sys; print(os.path.realpath('/tmp'))")

	function test {
	MESSAGE=$1
	RECEIVED=$2
	EXPECTED=$3

	use std::str;

	fn main() {
	// -- FROM: vec of chars --
	let src1: Vec<char> = vec!['j','{','"','i','m','m','y','"','}'];
	// to String
	let string1: String = src1.iter().collect::<String>();
	// to str
	let str1: &str = &src1.iter().collect::<String>();
	// to vec of byte