DotShare v3.0 — I Built a Full Publishing Suite Inside VS Code (And What I Learned)

How I went from a simple social media poster to a full publishing suite with Dev.to, Medium, thread composers, and auth health checks — all without leaving VS Code. I've been building DotShare — a VS Code extension that lets you post to LinkedIn, X, Bluesky, Telegram, Reddit, Discord, and Facebook directly from your editor. After shipping v2.4 with one-click OAuth, I thought I was done for a while. Then I started writing more long-form content. Every time I finished a markdown article in VS Code, I had to open a browser, go to Dev.to, copy-paste my content, fix the formatting, add tags, set the canonical URL... you know the drill. So I rebuilt the whole thing. What Changed in v3.0 — The Publishing Suite The headline feature is blog publishing — but the real story is the architecture behind it. 1. Platform-First Navigation The old UI had "workspace tabs" — you picked Threads, Social, or Blogs, then selected your platform. It was confusing and redundant. In v3.0, I flipped it: click the