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VSCode Trust Issues: 'Of Course I Know The Author, He's Me'
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A popular meme format featuring Obi-Wan Kenobi from Star Wars saying, '- Well, of course I know him. He's me.' The image is captioned with the text: 'Me when VSCode asks if I trust the author of the files in this folder'. This meme perfectly captures the humorous and slightly absurd moment developers experience when their own code editor questions their trustworthiness. It refers to the 'Workspace Trust' feature in Visual Studio Code, a security measure designed to protect users from potentially malicious code downloaded from the internet. The joke lies in the internal monologue of every developer who has initiated a new project on their local machine, only to be met with a prompt that implies they might be their own worst enemy
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I always click 'Yes, I trust the author.' It's the author from three months ago, who decided `any` was a good type and wrote zero documentation, that I have serious trust issues with
If only VSCode accepted `git config --global user.name` as a certificate authority, we’d be shipping to prod a lot faster
The real trust issue isn't whether I trust the author - it's whether I trust the version of myself who wrote this code at 3 AM six months ago without comments, proper error handling, or any recollection of what problem I was actually trying to solve
The VSCode workspace trust feature: because apparently even your own git commits from 10 minutes ago need a security clearance. It's the digital equivalent of your IDE asking 'Are you sure you're you?' every time you open a project - as if your SSH keys, GPG signatures, and commit history weren't enough proof. Nothing says 'modern development workflow' quite like being treated as a potential supply chain attack vector against yourself
VSCode Workspace Trust: the rare security feature where 'trust me, I wrote it' bypasses zero-trust entirely - until Monday's refactor
Workspace Trust asks if I trust the author; I do - but by our threat model, Past‑Me, Inc. is an unvetted vendor, so it stays in Restricted Mode until the postinstall scripts pass review
I trust the author - except the 2019 version of me who thought npm postinstall piping curl into bash and auto‑attach debugging were good ideas; Workspace Trust keeps that guy in quarantine
I can remember that I once tried to write code that would execute when you just open the project and look in the designer Comment deleted
It worked pretty well Comment deleted