I have started using Continue with Ollama to have a local llm assist my coding. Initially it was too slow to be of real use, but since adopting GLM4, it now rivals Cursor in performance.

The code spell checker plugin, formerly cspell, works well for “normal” vscode project, but wasn’t doing anything for a workspace based project.

Here’s a copier project template that sets up everything I need for a modern Python CLI project in about 30 seconds.

If you have the Python extension in VSCode, you can open and run Jupyter notebook directly in the IDE. But what if you want to work on the actual JSON source?