Announcing #vscodethemes
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Preview #themes from the #vscode marketplace.About 5 months ago I posted a side project to r/vscode that got relatively popular, and since then I’ve been working on making it useful.VSCodeThemes started as an excuse to learn some new tech and challenge myself across the full stack. I knew I wanted to build a web scrapper with AWS Lambda / SQS and try out Algolia, a search-as-a-service platform.I was probably browsing themes around the same time.Browsing the Visual Studio Marketplace for themes can be painful. The site is optimized for browsing extensions so you rely on theme publishers adding screenshots to the readme.The search results aren’t super useful either. The name, thumbnail and number of installs of an extension are poor indicators of a theme’s quality. Browsing results one by one, (...)