Daily Software Tips & Tricks

If you find yourself manually editing ten lines of similar code, stop right there. In VS Code, you can press Alt + Click (or Cmd + Option + Click on Mac) to place multiple cursors anywhere. Even better, highlight a word and hit Ctrl + D to select the next occurrence of that word.

It turns tedious refactoring into a five-second task and makes you feel like a keyboard wizard. Once you get used to it, you will wonder how you ever managed to code without it.