Tyler Leonhardt

@tylerleonhardt.dev

VS Code team @ Microsoft. ☕️ nerd. Full of wanderlust. Words are mine. He/him

I’m in Minneapolis for the holidays ❄️ I love the series of skyways over roads that connect two buildings. It’s a really cool way to get around town without having to go outside (feels like -1 F rn). There’s even a website to help navigate! skyway.run

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Big updates in the latest VS Code release: ✨ Extend agent mode (now available in VS Code Stable!) with MCP tools ✨ A unified chat experience ✨ Use your own API key to access more language models ...and so much more aka.ms/VSCodeRelease Let’s dive in 🧵

A thumbnail with a dark background and the VS Code logo that says "What's new in Visual Studio Code March Update [1.99] -Agent mode in VS Code Stable -Extend agent mode with MCP tools -New tools for fetching web content and symbol references -Edit notebooks and cells from chat -Next Edit Suggestions GA -Unified chat experience -Use your own API key to access more language models (preview) -Better and faster workspace search with instant remote indexing"

I’m doing this big migration that needed me to create over 40 PRs in an Azure Repo… when my script finally finished creating all of them, Azure DevOps kindly sent me over 400 emails from builds that were auto-triggered from opening the PRs lol Why is it so chatty?

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I’m personally most excited about Copilot’s Free tier now is that it pairs soo well with Copilot extensibility. I can write a really cool AI-powered @vscode.dev extension in TypeScript and not have to pay a dime… but also my users don’t have to either. code.visualstudio.com/docs/copilot...

GitHub Copilot extensibility overview

Overview of how to extend GitHub Copilot in your Visual Studio Code extension by using the Chat API or Language Model API.

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This year was a big travel year for me and it was amazing - I am truly so lucky and privileged to be able to do so. These trips were really special: 💒 Reconnecting with family & friends 💭 Daydreaming about living in ___ 🥘 Food & experiences What will 2025 have in store 🤔

In 2024:
* 58821 miles (94663km) traveled
* 96 days of travel
* 16 total trips
* 12 countries visited
* 49 cities visitedSophie & I sitting on a pink couch among many many flowersSophie & I in front of a castleMe feeding a highland cow

Wild to me that I’m in an industry that talks about AGI… but if I want a copy of my birth certificate with the city name on it I have to send a photocopy of my ID & a check for $15 by mail to Jacksonville.

Yesterday was World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims… so a quick, extremely fresh, story Last Thurs, my friend was hit by a car walking home at around 5pm causing a concussion and fractured vertebrae. Doctors say she will recover… in time, but… 1/🧵 #WDoR2024