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0 pointsehayes3y ago0 comments

Me too. Even if you have a great theme in VSC you're still stuck with the sidebar and the bad Microsoft-y typography choices everywhere.

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bckr3y ago

I was able to make VSCode look pretty great with a bit of work by following the ebook Make VSCode Awesome: https://makevscodeawesome.com/

great fonts, minimal visual clutter etc

Watching your "Hide all the crap" gif made me realize you could do this:

> View: Toggle Activity Bar Visibility

Much nicer, thank you!

bckr3y ago

I'm not the author of that webpage or e-book, but the e-book has a looooot of other good information like that.

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bckr3y ago

I was able to make VSCode look pretty great with a bit of work by following the ebook Make VSCode Awesome: https://makevscodeawesome.com/

great fonts, minimal visual clutter etc

Watching your "Hide all the crap" gif made me realize you could do this:

> View: Toggle Activity Bar Visibility

Much nicer, thank you!

bckr3y ago

I'm not the author of that webpage or e-book, but the e-book has a looooot of other good information like that.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse