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VS Code + Live Share: Putting the “We" back in "Web"
When we first released Live Share three years ago, our goal was to enable developer collaboration to...
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Jonathan Carter
I build developer tools and services at Microsoft (currently Codespaces, Live Share, IntelliCode) and maintain some OSS projects (CodeTour, GistPad, CodeSwing, WikiLens)
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Fun Things You Can Do With github.dev 😎
GitHub recently released github.dev, which allows you to press . on any repo in order to open it in...
Jonathan Carter5 min read#discuss#productivity
Do you prefer desktop or web clients?
For apps that have rich clients for both web and desktop (e.g. Slack, Teams, Zoom, Discord, Notion,...
Jonathan Carter1 min read#showdev#vscode#tools#webdev
Community Showcase for GitHub Gists in VS Code
The developer community uses GitHub Gists for a pretty diverse set of use cases. Since it effectively...
Jonathan Carter2 min read#discuss#vscode#showdev#webdev
What are your favorite/most useful GitHub Gists and/or CodePen samples?
Hi all! I built GistPad (https://aka.ms/gistpad), which is a VS Code extension that allows you to...
Jonathan Carter1 min read#showdev#vscode#webdev#javascript
Using VS Code and GitHub Gists As a Web Development Playground
Developing web applications can be hard! And as result, it can be extremely valuable to experiment...
Jonathan Carter1 min read#showdev#vscode#webdev#discuss
VS Code + GitHub Gist = Developer Micro-Blogging (aka a "GistLog")
In a previous post, I introduced GistPad, a new VS Code extension that provides an in-editor...
Jonathan Carter2 min read#vscode#webdev#showdev#discuss
VS Code + GitHub Gist = Cloud-Based Developer Scratchpad
GitHub Gist provides a powerful and flexible platform for quickly creating, editing and sharing code...
Jonathan Carter1 min read#discuss#watercooler#tools
What are the biggest challenges when onboarding and contributing to a new codebase/project?
Hey All! In your experience, what have been some of the biggest challenges you (or others on your...
Jonathan Carter1 min read#discuss#watercooler#vscode
Have you used a paid on-demand expert help service to screen share/pair program/review code with someone?
Hey All! As the PM for Visual Studio Live Share, I care a lot about making team-based collaboration...
Jonathan Carter1 min read#discuss#watercooler#vscode
What have you built/automated with headless browsers (e.g. Puppeteer)?
Hey All! I’ve been recently exploring Puppeteer in order to automate simple tasks for myself (e.g....
Jonathan Carter1 min read#discuss#vscode#tools
VS Code: Does your team or school use a custom “extension pack” to share their tooling stack?
Hey All! I’ve noticed a trend where teams and/or schools will create a VS Code extension pack, and...
Jonathan Carter1 min read#showdev#discuss
Complimenting developer communities with real-time discovery and assistance
Myself and Arjun Attam have been working on a prototype that's built on top of Live Share, and would...
Jonathan Carter1 min read
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Building a Fully-Extensible Developer Collaboration Platform
Note: I’m a member of the Visual Studio Live Share team, and this post is part of a series explaining...
Jonathan Carter5 min read#discuss
Have you tried IntelliCode? If so, what's your favorite (or least favorite!) suggestions so far?
Hey All! My team builds Visual Studio IntelliCode and we're curious to learn how it's working for...
Jonathan Carter1 min read#discuss
What’s your default terminal shell? And what do you love the most about it?
Hey all! I keep meaning to give Fish a serious evaluation as my default shell, since it seems to...
Jonathan Carter1 min read#discuss
Which dotfiles (e.g. .bashrc, .vimrc) do you actually customize/depend on for your daily dev machine setup?
As a follow-up to this discussion, I’m curious to learn exactly which dotfiles (user-specific...
Jonathan Carter1 min read#discuss
Do you clone Git repos via HTTPS or SSH?
Hey All! Random question: when you clone a Git repo, do you use HTTPS or SSH to do it? Furthermore,...
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Providing a Real-Time Complement for Git-Based Collaboration
Every day, millions of developers collaborate using one of the most fundamental tools in software:...
Jonathan Carter5 min read
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You Can't Spell Collaboration Without Communication
In a previous post, I discussed how Visual Studio Live Share enables a flexible form of...
Jonathan Carter5 min read#discuss
Does your team conduct tech interviews as collaborative coding sessions? If so, what software/techniques are you using?
I’ve noticed a trend amongst development teams to adopt an technical interview format that looks more...
Jonathan Carter1 min read#discuss#collaboration#productivity
What does pair programming look like for your team?
Hey All! I’m curious to know whether your team does pair programming of any form (let’s not get too...
Jonathan Carter2 min read
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Visual Studio Futures: Intelligent Productivity and Collaboration from Anywhere
Note: I’m a PM on the Visual Studio team, and this post explains the ways we’re trying to address...
Jonathan Carter5 min read#discuss#productivity#beginners
How do you manage your dotfiles across multiple and/or new developer machines?
Hey All! I’m curious to hear the gritty details about how you synchronize your dotfiles (e.g....
Jonathan Carter1 min read#webdev#javascript#productivity#showdev
Collaborative Development Requires a Shared Web Browser
In a previous post, I illustrated how we optimized Visual Studio Live Share for web development, by...
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I'm a Visual Studio PM at Microsoft, working on developer services like Live Share. Ask Me Anything!
Hey all! I've been at Microsoft for >11 years, and have had the pleasure of working on everything...
Jonathan Carter2 min read
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Collaboration doesn't come in "One Size Fits All"
As with many questions in software, the answer to “What’s the best way to collaborate?” is...it...
Jonathan Carter6 min read
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Localhost isn't local anymore
In my previous post, I discussed the reasons why we built Visual Studio Live Share, and the various...
Jonathan Carter5 min read
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In Pursuit of Enjoyable Developer Collaboration
Collaboration is critical for any successful development team. That's a fairly uncontroversial...
Jonathan Carter8 min read