Developer Uncle - Your VS Code Virtual Assistant

Ask Developer Uncle anything (Powered by ChatGPT). He can also help you in some trivial tasks, like formatting, escaping/unescaping JSON, time, UUID generation, mermaid code snippets and most important creating IFTTT trigger. Using IFTTT triggers, you can perform any action what IFTTT supports, like adding a TODO or posting on Slack.

Features

Commands for following actions:

• VS Code Assistant
• IFTTT events
• JSON Unescape*
• JSON Unescape & Format*
• JSON Escape*
• Format JSON*
• Current Time
• Generate random UUID

*Works on selected text also

Code Snippets

• Mermaid

VS Code Assistant [ALT+SPACE]

Developer Uncle is your VS Code Assistant (Powered by ChatGPT). You can ask to execute the above commands through the text like, 'please generate UUID', 'help me format JSON' etc. Or any queries related to him, like 'who are you?', 'what can you do?' etc. He can also do small talk.

Configuration

• Set your OpenAI API Key in the Visual Studio Code Settings (developerUncle.openai.apikey) for Developer Uncle. Get your API Key from here: OpenAI.

IFTTT Commands Configuration

• Set your IFTTT Webhook Key in the Visual Studio Code Settings (developerUncle.IFTTT.credentials.key) for Developer Uncle. You can find it at IFTTT Webhooks Setting Page after login to your IFTTT account. If you find your URL is https://maker.ifttt.com/use/abcdefghijklmnop, abcdefghijklmnop is your key.

IFTTT Event Sample Use-cases

• Sample IFTTT Applet to send push notification on mobile from VSCode using all three parameters. Enable it on IFTTT
• IFTTT Applet to create a task on Todoist using value3 parameter. Enable it on IFTTT

Enjoy. Create your own IFTTT applets.

Known Issues

None!

Developer Uncle is also available on Slack. https://slack.com/apps/A3KRJEAN7-developer-uncle

Contact developers at developer-uncle@echobullet.com for any issues. Or ask questions here.

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