Eric Amodio
eric.amod.io
Eric Amodio
@eric.amod.io
Father, husband, code monkey, entrepreneur, geek. Creator of GitLens for VS Code. CTO @ GitKraken. Microsoft MVP (Dev Tools). Prev VS Code dev @ Microsoft. ❤ open-source
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November 10, 2025 at 6:35 AM
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November 9, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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Save the date: GitKon 2025 is December 10-11.

Two days. Virtual. Free. Built for developers who care about craft over hype.

10K+ builders. Real code. Actionable workflows.

Plus, the chance to win $2500 for the GitKon Game Jam.

Secure your spot today: gitkon.com?1?source=org...

#GitKon
November 7, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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I’d like to take the moderate path, because I’m a history major and I know what the alternatives are.
November 7, 2025 at 5:24 AM
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This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings
October 18, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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😍 Boston, you are beautiful. #NoKings
October 18, 2025 at 5:22 PM
No Kings in Worcester
October 18, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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NO FUCKING KINGS.
October 18, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.
October 5, 2025 at 9:08 AM
@pnpm.io Is there any way to use `minimumReleaseAge` but have it exclude direct dependencies (if they are targeting a specific version)? I often want to pick a specific dependency in my `package.json`, but still have `minimumReleaseAgeExclude` still enforced for all the indirect deps.
October 3, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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The public preview of Github Copilot CLI launched today, and if you install it, you'll be welcomed by little ASCII art welcome banner that I animated. Creating it ended up being great example of how vibe-coding has entered my toolbelt. Nerdy deets in 🧵...
September 25, 2025 at 11:35 PM
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some thoughts about the bloat introduced by edge-case first libraries
The bloat of edge-case first libraries
How building edge-case first led to bloated, overly-granular libraries and what we can do about it
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September 9, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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"Open source, the thing that drives the world, the thing Harvard says has an economic value of 8.8 trillion dollars. Most of it is one person."

opensourcesecurity.io/2025/08-oss-...
Open Source is one person
The Register recently published a story titled Putin on the code: DoD reportedly relies on utility written by Russian dev. They should be ashamed of this story. This poor open source developer is gett...
opensourcesecurity.io
September 1, 2025 at 2:48 AM
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This is a really, really good article. I highly recommend it
August 30, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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I wrote about the humility of expertise and the arrogance of ignorance, the profound laziness that attends believing that you can find knowledge by ignoring the accumulation of inherited human knowledge, and the ways lazy arrogance fuels narratives of fascism. www.the-reframe.com/your-ignoran...
Your Ignorance Doesn't Make You An Expert
Let's go chasing waterfalls.
www.the-reframe.com
August 31, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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Disposable code is here to stay, but durable code is what runs the world, and it isn't going anywhere either. www.honeycomb.io/blog/disposa...

(Engineers who are freaking out about their jobs going away can stop now. 💜)
Disposable Code Is Here to Stay, but Durable Code Is What Runs the World
Every day I seem to run into yet another post with someone solemnly opining that “writing code has never been the hardest part of software engineering. And hey, that’s smashing.
www.honeycomb.io
July 29, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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ICE Is a terrorist organization.
July 19, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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I've had this headline rattling around in my brain since January and I finally wrote it. Been hearing too many people in the startup world buying into the neoractionary nonsense that maybe a little light fascism is good for silicon valley. It's not. It's very, very bad.
July 17, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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I started a little pet project recently, a VS Code extension that discovers Custom Elements Manifests in your workspace and starts a local MCP server that AI assistants can connect to. Features are still very early & rough.

Love to hear your feedback!

marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemNa...
Web Component AI Tools - Visual Studio Marketplace
Extension for Visual Studio Code - Supercharge your AI coding assistants with web component information from your workspace and dependencies. Generate accurate component code using your actual custom ...
marketplace.visualstudio.com
June 13, 2025 at 1:51 AM
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Want your AI tools to actually act like teammates?

The new GitKraken MCP server lets you connect agents like Copilot, Cursor & Windsurf to your CLI so they can:
✅ Clean branches
✅ Write PRs
✅ Surface insights instantly

👉 Try it now: www.gitkraken.com/blog/introdu...

#GitKraken #AIforDevs
Introducing GitKraken MCP: AI Agents Just Got a Power-Up | GitKraken
With the latest iteration of the GitKraken CLI, you can now connect to a local MCP server to deliver more functionality to your agent of choice. Whether you
www.gitkraken.com
June 11, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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"This VS Code extension automatically discovers Custom Elements Manifests in your workspace [and] starts a local Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that AI assistants can connect to"

marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemNa...

by @keithdaulton.com
Web Component AI Tools - Visual Studio Marketplace
Extension for Visual Studio Code - Supercharge your AI coding assistants with web component information from your workspace and dependencies. Generate accurate component code using your actual custom ...
marketplace.visualstudio.com
June 11, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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Risky post!

(This is great, fun to read and the frustrated tone throughout really does capture how it feels sometimes to be an experienced programmer trying to argue that "LLMs are actually really useful" in many corners of the internet)
June 2, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd.
It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.
May 31, 2025 at 4:43 AM
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Today, we're announcing plans to make VS Code an open source AI editor.

We believe AI development should stay true to VS Code's core principles: open, collaborative, and community-driven. Let's build the future of software development together.

aka.ms/open-source-...
May 19, 2025 at 4:10 PM