5 tools no developer needs
Kai Oswald

Kai Oswald @kaos

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5 tools no developer needs

Publish Date: Aug 20 '20
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A satirical approach to tools that exist, but no developer actually needs.

1: Power Mode

Unleash your true developer power with power mode extensions!

Do you find writing code boring? Well, you just didn't have the right extensions installed.

With this extension you can immerse yourself into your code and enable your inner coder beast by looking at increasing combo counters, screen-shaking and fancy particles!

Code editor with a combo counter on the right side. When typing the counter increases and particles fly out from the cursor position. The screen is shaking

But it gets better: Customizable particles!

Code is written. Every now and then a plasma explosion occurs on the cursor position

Missing your old friend Clippy? No more!

Clippy (the office assistant from Microsoft) hovering beneath the cursor position spinning around

If you're using Hyper, you can even unleash your full power in the terminal.

A terminal window typing commands. Every now and then particles fly out from the cursor position. The screen shakes.

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2: Rainbow fart

Never get the attribution you deserve for your code?

This VS Code extension compliments you for writing code with an automated computer voice.

The code quality doesn't matter at all, even shitty code will get complimented.

Not an actual rainbow fart btw:

Rainbow Fart is a literal translation word from Chinese, which means giving somebody exaggerated compliment that even seems a little fake. It is not connected to any specific group or individuals.

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3: Explodal

Do your dialogs not get the attention they deserve? Just add explodal to your projects.

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jessekorzan/expodal/master/assets/img/dbbl.explodal.01.gif

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4: Obnoxious.css

Speaking of lack of attention. With this css library you will guarantee the attention of your users.

You can choose between 5 highly efficient animations.

My favorite among these beauties is probably "Intensifies".
Demonstration of obnoxious text animations such as

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5: Git push rockets

Would you really forget to push your code if that triggers a rocket launch? I can tell you that my git pushes have increased drastically since I've used some of these tools.

Terminal rocket for Hyper

Terminal typing git push. After the command is executed a rocket crosses the terminal window from bottom to top

Not realistic enough? Cover your whole editor with this VS Code extension

A realistic rocket launch is displayed after git push is executed

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Concluding words

This was a fun article to write. Definitely more on the side of "Too deep into the code extension marketplace".

Install them for fun or just for the memes.

Let's connect on twitter.

Comments 24 total

  • Madza
    MadzaAug 20, 2020

    Someone should make a VS Code extension that opens up 8h SpaceX Falcon9 Livestream on git push 🚀🚀🚀

    • Danny Kim
      Danny KimAug 21, 2020

      And splashdown on git pull

  • KAIDI
    KAIDIAug 20, 2020

    Thanks fot sharing these gems

  • Jem
    Jem Aug 20, 2020

    But, for real, I love the rockets.

  • Matthieu Cneude
    Matthieu CneudeAug 20, 2020

    This is beautiful. Thanks.

  • Jashua
    JashuaAug 20, 2020

    5 tools no developer needs
    1: Power Mode

    That's where you're wrong kiddo (☞⌐■_■)☞

    • Michiel Hendriks
      Michiel HendriksAug 20, 2020

      Power Mode and the VS Code Slack Theme is the only way to use that tool.

  • Manyong'oments
    Manyong'omentsAug 20, 2020

    This is actually cool 👍🏽

  • scroung720
    scroung720Aug 21, 2020

    The Christopher Nolan modal was the best thing.

  • Swastik Baranwal
    Swastik BaranwalAug 21, 2020

    Amazing lol!

  • Alex Antra
    Alex AntraAug 21, 2020

    This was a hoot to read, end to end.

  • Krzysztof Buczynski
    Krzysztof BuczynskiAug 21, 2020

    This is perfect Post for Friday

  • Henry Cook
    Henry CookAug 21, 2020

    I miss Clippy though.

  • Martín Vukovic
    Martín VukovicAug 21, 2020

    Actually I use Nyan Progress bar for accessibility reasons XD

    youtu.be/gK5GdDvPuy4?t=6

  • cray2015
    cray2015Aug 21, 2020

    I laughed so hard!!!!

  • hidden_dude
    hidden_dudeAug 21, 2020

    I dunno man.. these seem pretty essential to me.

  • Mislav Cimperšak
    Mislav CimperšakAug 22, 2020

    Awesome tools!

    I maintain a list of usefull projects like this :D I just might add some of these tools to it 🤔

    Feel free to check it out: github.com/mislavcimpersak/awesome... 🌟

  • Rabin Chakraborty
    Rabin ChakrabortyAug 24, 2020

    I need No. 1 like "ora ora ora, muda muda muda" jojo style.
    No. 5 with full screen launcher

  • Jang Rush
    Jang RushSep 9, 2020

    Had a lot of fun reading this! I'd like to translate it to Chinese (and publish the translated text at nextfe.com). Can you give me the permission to do so?

  • dalepres
    dalepresOct 3, 2020

    Haha... and add this article to the article on 5 Articles No Developer Needs to Read... :)

  • Arika O
    Arika OOct 8, 2020

    I laughed way too much at this. Do you even write code if you're not using Power Mode?

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