The vast majority of devs in the last few years have either been raised as sloppers or transitioned from developers to sloppers. Programming has evolved into a blackbox where fewer than ever people know how a program works, despite the numbers of "programmers" has skyrocketed. Just a few months ago a friend had a job interview(fake one obviously) where he was asked to clone a repo and do some stuff on it. The repo contained some vs code hooks which did a ton of stuff in the background installing backdoors and whatnot. In my friend's case, that was a non-issue since he was running it in a VM but I recon thousands of others have fallen victim of such attacks and have no clue still.
What are “vs code hooks” exactly? A search for that or “VSCode Hooks” isn’t turning up anything for me in Kagi or Google…
I assume they are called hooks, .vscode/settings.json - you can put some linters/tests which run automatically (from my understanding, something similar to git hooks, hence the reason I called them hooks). I generally hate the concept and I generally dislike vscode so... yeah.
I assumed they are meaning VSCode plugins that "hook" into the system.
Ask for yourself; I'm keeping my sanity back with stuff from https://t3x.org and the like. Scheme with logic/DIscrete Math, the MInikanren and the Mini Prolog it's incredibily powerful.
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