--- title: Best DevTools posts — December 2020 | daily.dev description: The most upvoted DevTools posts from December 2020, curated by the daily.dev community. canonical: https://daily.dev/tags/devtools/best-of/2020/12 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:url: https://daily.dev/tags/devtools/best-of/2020/12 og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Best DevTools posts — December 2020 | daily.dev og:description: The most upvoted DevTools posts from December 2020, curated by the daily.dev community. og:image: https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--VAY5ToZt--/f_auto/v1724209435/public/daily.dev%20-%20open%20graph --- # Best of DevTools — December 2020 1. 1 [](/posts/top-vs-code-extensions-every-developer-should-use--1ubrqnyjt "Top VS Code Extensions Every Developer Should Use 🛠") Article Hashnode · 6y Top VS Code Extensions Every Developer Should Use 🛠 Visual Studio Code is a free source-code editor made by Microsoft for Windows, Linux, and macOS. Features include support for debugging, syntax highlighting, intelligent code completion, snippets, code refactoring, and embedded Git. In this article, I'll be sharing top VS Code Extensions you must-have for making your life easier. 51 1 2. 2 [](/posts/cool-vscode-extensions-for-developers-8bsjfqfh "Cool Vscode Extensions for Developers") Article Hashnode · 6y Cool Vscode Extensions for Developers The Vscode Extension allows you to add tools, languages, debuggers, and much more to your code editor. With the vscode extension, developers write faster, cleaner, and more consistent code. To get started is quite simple, we just have to install the extensions on our editor from the extensions panel. 46 6 3. 3 [](/posts/vs-code-extensions-that-x27-ll-boost-your-development-productivity-eikivoab7 "VS Code Extensions That'll Boost Your Development Productivity") Article freeCodeCamp · 6y VS Code Extensions That'll Boost Your Development Productivity Colby Fayock is a Front End Engineer and UX Designer. He’s passionate about tackling challenges that can make the world a better place. Colby is on Twitter at @colbyfayock and on Facebook at www.facebook.com/ColbyFayock. 42 2 4. 4 [](/posts/vschat-chat-with-developers-around-the-world-using-vscode-tkvpl-xam "vsChat — Chat with developers around the world using VSCode") Article Product Hunt · 6y vsChat — Chat with developers around the world using VSCode Chat with developers around the world. Chat while programming. Embed Collect. \[VScode Extension\] Chat with developers in Anonymous Chat Rooms. chat while programming in the VScode chat room. Chat withDevelopers.com in the chat room in which you can chat with other developers in the same language. 38 9 5. 5 [](/posts/a-terminal-based-workflow-for-research-writing-and-programming-hc3gue6vz "A terminal-based workflow for research, writing, and programming") Article Changelog · 6y A terminal-based workflow for research, writing, and programming I use Alacritty as my terminal, zsh and oh-my-zsh as my shell and plugin manager respectively, tmux as my multiplexer, lsd as my list command with fun icons, Fantasque Sans Mono as my typeface font, neovim for my editor, fzf paired with ripgrep for speedy and interactive file finding, pandoc for writing in markdown and LaTeX and outputting the piece to whatever file type I want, Zotero for managing my collection on scientific literature, ranger as a terminal-based file explorer, and gruvbox-dark as my general color palette. 32 6. 6 [](/posts/12-must-have-browser-extensions-for-developers-kko0ngjcw "12 Must Have Browser Extensions for Developers") Article DevDojo · 6y 12 Must Have Browser Extensions for Developers Google Chrome extensions are programs created by different developers that change your browser's functionality. Whether you are a Web Developer or not, thousands of different extensions can help you. In this post, we are gonna take at you some of the most useful extensions. Some of these extensions are going to be of help to you even if you are not a Web developer. 31 8 7. 7 [](/posts/python-in-visual-studio-code-december-2020-release-dobbbf9vs "Python in Visual Studio Code – December 2020 Release") Article DevBlogs · 6y Python in Visual Studio Code – December 2020 Release The December 2020 release of the Python Extension for Visual Studio Code is now available. In this release we closed 13 issues, and it includes:Extract method and variable code actions with Pylance 2020.12.2\. Insiders program, which offers early access to new language server features and improvements. 29 3 8. 8 [](/posts/top-chrome-extensions-every-developer-should-use--hw8imerrs "Top Chrome Extensions Every Developer Should Use 🛠") Article Hashnode · 6y Top Chrome Extensions Every Developer Should Use 🛠 Google Chrome is a cross-platform web browser developed by Google. It allows us to access a massive repository of Chrome extensions and resources that make our everyday activities less of a hassle. Below is a list of the best extensions that we can make use of on a daily basis. Let me know your thoughts on this in the comments section. 15 3 9. 9 [](/posts/automate-notion-with-python-kdikljf-t "Automate Notion with Python") Article Hashnode · 6y Automate Notion with Python Notion is a super-clean and deceptively minimalist note-taking app. In this Blog article, we will learn how to Automate Notion in Python. We will see the implementation in Python and how to use the Habit Tracker template to add a new row at the end with proper formatted date. 12 2 10. 10 [](/posts/vs-code-dms-direct-messages-for-visual-studio-code-wa6qaplhs "VS Code DMs — Direct Messages for Visual Studio Code") Article Product Hunt · 6y VS Code DMs — Direct Messages for Visual Studio Code GitHub is a new way to share code snippets, debug bugs, and check your developer friends' activity status through your GitHub handle. Level up your collaboration experience by creating Group DMs, sharing code snippets and more. 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