ScrollTheBlog

Read tech blogs inside VS Code. ScrollTheBlog pulls posts from Hacker News, Medium, dev.to and Lobsters, mixes them at random, and opens them in a reader tab next to your code.

Features

A sidebar with a random, balanced mix of posts from the sources you pick
Shuffle for a new mix, refresh to fetch fresh posts
A reader tab that matches your editor theme, with an "Open in browser" fallback
Read posts are dimmed and pushed to the bottom of the next shuffle

Settings

Setting	Default	What it does
`scrolltheblog.sources`	all four	Which sources to pull from (`hn`, `medium`, `devto`, `lobsters`)
`scrolltheblog.mediumTags`	`programming`, `software-engineering`, `javascript`	Medium tags to follow
`scrolltheblog.postCount`	`20`	How many posts to show at once

You can also pick sources from the filter button in the sidebar.

Privacy

No account and no telemetry. The extension only calls the public endpoints of the four sources, plus the page of any post you open. It never reads your code or workspace.

Development

npm install
npm run build      # bundle to dist/
npm test           # unit tests

Press F5 in VS Code to launch an Extension Development Host.

License

MIT

ScrollTheBlog

Shalvi Rajpura

ScrollTheBlog

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