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Poem of the Day

Poem of the Day

Darren Jaworski

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5 installs
| (0) | Free
An extension to provide you with a daily dose of poetry while you're coding.
Installation
Launch VS Code Quick Open (Ctrl+P), paste the following command, and press enter.
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Poem of the Day

An extension to provide you with a daily dose of poetry while you're coding.


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Installation

Install this extension from the VS Code marketplace.

OR

With VS Code open, search for poem-of-the-day in the extension panel (Ctrl+Shift+X on Windows/Linux or Cmd(⌘)+Shift+X on MacOS) and click install.

OR

With VS Code open, launch VS Code Quick Open (Ctrl+P on Windows/Linux or Cmd(⌘)+P on MacOS), paste the following command, and press enter.

ext install darrenjaworski.poem-of-the-day

Features

A daily poem is just a click away in the lower left of your toolbar. Happy coding.

Poem of the Day Preview

Requirements

This extension has no dependencies.

Extension Settings

This extension contributes the following settings:

  • poemOfTheDay.openOnStartup: On VS Code startup, the poem of the day will be displayed. (defaults to false)

Commands

  • Show Poem of the Day (poem-of-the-day.showPoemOfTheDay): Opens the Poem of the Day in a webview panel.

Known Issues

Please report any bugs or issues on the extension's Github repo.

Release Notes

1.0.7

  • fix: typo on footer

1.0.6

  • chore: update readme

1.0.5

  • fix: random author each day

1.0.4

  • fix: remove caching

1.0.3

  • fix fetch new poem every day

1.0.2

  • fix: crop icon

1.0.1

  • chore: updated icon
  • chore: updated readme

1.0.0

  • feat: a random poem fetched daily and cached locally from poetrydb.org
  • feat: poetry displayed in webview
  • feat: toolbar icon to show poem and shows title and author preview
  • feat: command to show poem of the day
  • feat: setting to automatically show poem of the day on startup (defaults to false)
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