Bart Veneman

Creator of Project Wallace, analytics for CSS. <noscript>-fanboy. Serverless clearfix engineer. I can lift node_modules twice my own weight.

VS Code 'do not disturb' settings

Latest version of my “leave me alone, VSC” configuration. Quick thread about each setting to explain what it does (when I even know) and why I don’t use it. As usual, YMMV. ✨ pic.twitter.com/v0sVEPJlix

— Kitty Giraudel (@KittyGiraudel) February 26, 2021

Kitty shares some of their leave-me-alone settings for VS Code. I've tried them on my own device and man what a relief! I only re-enabled Git, because I do find it useful most of the time.

{
"editor.acceptSuggestionOnCommitCharacter": false,
"editor.codeLens": false,
"editor.copyWithSyntaxHighlighting": false,
"editor.dragAndDrop": false,
"editor.hover.delay": 1200,
"editor.lightbulb.enabled": false,
"editor.minimap.enabled": false,
"editor.parameterHints.enabled": false,
"editor.quickSuggestions": {
"other": false,
"comments": false,
"strings": false
},
"editor.suggestOnTriggerCharacters": false,
"explorer.openEditors.visible": 0,
"extensions.ignoreRecommendations": true,
"git.enabled": false,
"keyboard.touchbar.enabled": false,
"update.showReleaseNotes": false,
"workbench.enableExperiments": false,
"workbench.startupEditor": "none",
"workbench.tips.enabled": false
}

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