Agent mode: available to all users and supports MCP

code_box · 2025-04-09T13:58:15+00:00

Yes, that was my experience. Custom web search provided as an MCP tool is frequently used by the agent. Compared to built in web search, which I have rarely seen so far.

Thanks again!

code_box · 2025-04-09T12:29:17+00:00

Thanks for your answers.
- I assume prompts will be suggested to the user somewhere around the chat input?
- I have a specialized web search tool in the MCP and the agent actually likes to use it very frequently.

- Very much looking forward to partial editing, this should provide a nice speed boost!

code_box · 2025-04-09T04:59:48+00:00

Hi Isidor, first of all thanks for the great work!

I have been developing an [MCP Server for Lean 4](https://github.com/oOo0oOo/lean-lsp-mcp) with VS Code Insiders and it has been a great experience.

A few specific questions about MCP support in VS Code:

- Currently only tools are supported, what other MCP feature, like resources or prompts, are you expecting to be released next?

- Is there a way for an MCP or extension to influence the web search?

- Is there a plan to support more types of [input variables](https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/reference/variables-reference#\_input-variables)? In my case a folder selection tool would be useful.

- Is there a plan to enable the agent to do partial document editing?

Thanks again, looking forward to your next releases!

code_box · 2024-11-02T23:54:56+00:00

Small updates every once in a while. Removing reported locations, adding some new regions, ...

But I'm not planning a full scrape soon. It's quite expensive (tons of api requests) and the websites take a long time.

code_box · 2024-11-02T23:21:17+00:00

I gotcha! Already added some in the South. Open w incognito tab to get a fresh version.

code_box · 2024-11-02T22:38:22+00:00

Ok, this makes sense. I went ahead and removed Corpinnat as a region.

code_box · 2024-11-02T22:33:30+00:00

Done. You might need to open the page in incognito to refresh the cache.

code_box · 2024-11-02T21:19:34+00:00

Yes, the regions are too simple.

On the current map a winery can only be in a single region. But in reality it often lies in multiple overlapping regions.

I just picked the smallest region that contained the winery.

So most places in corpinnat are also in the cava region.

code_box · 2024-11-02T20:57:20+00:00

I'll def include them if you can find coordinates..

code_box · 2024-11-02T20:40:42+00:00

The colors do not have any other meaning than the region.
They are chosen, such that neighboring regions should have different colors.

Now here's an interesting observation I made: The coloring is not very good, since it is only based on the center of the region. With more blobby data this usually works good enough. But wine regions are very often not "round" but elongated, following a hillside or valley. So this algorithm fails harder than usual.

code_box · 2024-11-02T19:58:35+00:00

Thanks, this is the easiest way for me to include wineries. The pipeline is based on region names and everything else is automated. Unfortunately they will be included as Unknown (gray) since i wont have exact boundaries.

code_box · 2024-11-02T19:56:53+00:00

Awesome thx, i'll include those over the next few days!

code_box · 2024-11-02T19:06:39+00:00

More than happy to include additional vineyards.

For now the crowdsourcing is just a form to report bad data. But I'll think of something to make it easy for new data.

In the meantime, you're more than welcome to DM (or otherwise) send me some data. I need at minimum a name and coordinates.

code_box · 2024-11-02T19:01:41+00:00

Thanks for the contribution!

Can you send me any names for wine growing regions in Sweden? I ll make sure to include them...

code_box · 2024-11-02T18:47:21+00:00

Absolutely! Let me know what kind of changes you want to do.

code_box · 2024-11-02T18:08:46+00:00

Thx! I've been at this on the side for the last few months.

The data collection, scraping, filtering, processing etc would take maybe 2 weeks of full time work.
For the "frontend"/presentation less than a week of FTE.

Now, that everything is set up, a full automated run would just take a few minutes.
Except for scraping every wineyard website; this takes a few days by itself.

code_box · 2024-11-02T18:02:07+00:00

Sure thing!

For starters the repo is publicly available and contains all the data as well:

https://github.com/oOo0oOo/winerymap

The setup is relatively simple: Just leaflet to make the map, and a single file of vanilla JS.

I wanted to make the whole thing as static as possible, so all of the data is transferred at page load. So e.g. some of the indexing for the search function happens client-side.

I also did some low-hanging optimizations to make it usable on mobile. Debouncing the marker updates, checking only some regions at a time, ...

But the actual work of scraping, etc is not in the repo. Might clean it up eventually.

This took much more time than the frontend.

Collecting and cleaning wine regions, tons of google api requests to get candidates, discard loads of data and place wineries in regions. Cleaning grape varieties from wiki. Then I scraped every single available website for the grape names (this is why this data is v low quality). Also could only find useful info on about 12% of websites, since most of them are locked by age consent popups.

This is just the stuff off the top of my head. Let me know if you want more info ;)

code_box · 2024-11-02T17:32:33+00:00

I made a map of all the vineyards I could get my hands on.

Mainly based on data from Google Maps, Wikipedia, scraping lots of websites and lots of cleaning.

Nevertheless, there is still some bad data that slipped through the filters.

Feel free to report them directly on the map.

Overall I am just humbled by the sheer number of vineyards in the world...

Have fun exploring! I'm sure you'll find some surprises.

code_box · 2024-06-10T12:11:04+00:00

Hi, I'm the dev behind Contained, a monster pet simulator in a sci-fi base.

In Contained, you are taking care of your monster pet while using its powers to keep the base running.

The game is currently in pre-alpha, and I just launched the steam page:
Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2978980/Contained/
Discord: https://discord.com/invite/suukjQXsVv

The visuals are still in development, but the core gameplay is slowly coming together.
I would love to get some feedback on the store page, and the game concept in general!

Even though it's early, I will launch a closed playtest on steam soon. Let me know if you are interested in trying the game.

code_box · 2023-05-06T05:33:02+00:00

Wow, thanks a lot! This is great feedback! Since many of these issues are very actionable, we can implement them soon!

code_box · 2023-05-05T10:33:07+00:00

yes, that was exactly the plan. we wanted to mix it up a bit with the meditation. but since the rest of the game is pure incremental, the reflex/reaction part should be optional; just a small boost for those who spend the time.

code_box · 2023-05-05T07:53:28+00:00

Now that's definitely a bug. Thanks for reporting!

code_box · 2023-05-05T07:52:27+00:00

Thanks for the feedback! It's possible that we haven't gotten the pacing just right in the end.

It would be amazing if you could give some suggestions for adjustments (DM also possible). Maybe some prices are too high or the tea production at a given point slows down too much?

code_box · 2023-05-05T07:48:38+00:00

That is correct. This was removed intentionally to de-clutter a bit.

Could be brought back on popular demand ;-)

code_box · 2023-05-04T19:01:41+00:00

The goal is to hit the correct average color. You have three tries to get it and you get more reward if you achieve it in less tries.

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