Tom Fenton tackles seven free and open-source AI tools bring local chat, coding, voice, design and research capabilities to personal computers and self-hosted environments.
Spread the loveChoosing the right code editor is a bit like a chef selecting their knives: it’s a deeply personal decision ...
Visual Studio Code is an advanced editor that supports just about every programming language in use today. That is why Visual Studio Code has more buttons, knobs, and switches than a Martian starship.
VS Code update brings info on running subagents into the Agents window and previews built-in dictation and a Markdown editor ...
A hobby coder's rough return to Visual Studio highlights how IntelliSense, IntelliCode and GitHub Copilot have created several overlapping layers of code completion -- along with settings intended to ...
Five free Marketplace extensions promise private, locally run coding assistance as developers look for alternatives to metered cloud AI.
Macworld reports the Mac Studio M5 is expected in October 2026, delayed from early 2026 due to global RAM shortages affecting AI infrastructure demand. The updated model will feature M5 Max and M5 ...
Turns out the winning fork was the thing everybody forked.
Codistry combines a model-flexible coding agent with a local repository index designed to help it understand how a project ...