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Wikipedia Link

Today I learned how to publish VSCode Extensions.

As is often the case, I was just trying to sync up my environments so that I could work seemlessly between the desk and couch when I wound up down the rabbit hole of typescript errors and configuration. Years ago I modified an exsiting extension, which was originaly inspired by a fella named Arian Wasi in Bangladesh1, so that I could more easily reference Wikpedia pages without having to leap between the browser and editor.

I noticed that when starting to sync my codespaces that I didn't have access to the extension which is when I remembered that it's only at my desk. So I whipped it into shape an published it on the Microsoft Visual Studio Marketplace2 so that I'd have it available everywhere3.

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It works like this... let's say Wikipedia - I just highlight the word and hit a keyboard shortcut to automatically look it up and link to it. It uses the Wikipedia Search API for the lookup and sometimes I just use it for note taking. When I'm unsure of the meaning or history of something, I'll draft it in as a link so that I can reference it later.

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Footnotes​

  1. Arian Wasi - https://wasi-master.github.io ↩

  2. Wikpedia Link - https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=windhamdavid.wikipedia-link ↩

  3. Wikpedia Link ( Github ) - https://github.com/windhamdavid/vscode-wikipedia-link ↩