Show your live coding presence on the DevGlobe world map from Zed.
- Zed editor
- A DevGlobe API key from devglobe.xyz/dashboard/settings
Sign in on devglobe.xyz with GitHub, X (Twitter), or Google, then copy your API key from profile settings.
Install DevGlobe from the Zed extensions marketplace, or as a dev extension:
- Open Zed
Cmd+Shift+P(macOS) orCtrl+Shift+P(Linux) → "zed: install dev extension"- Select this folder
On first activation, the extension downloads the matching devglobe-core binary for your platform from GitHub Releases (one-time, ~60 MB).
Create your config file:
mkdir -p ~/.devglobe
cat > ~/.devglobe/config.toml <<'EOF'
api_key = "devglobe_YOUR_KEY_HERE"
EOFVisibility settings (anonymous mode, repo sharing on the live globe, profile mode) are managed on devglobe.xyz/dashboard/settings.
When you open a project, Zed may ask you to trust the worktree. Accept to allow the DevGlobe language server to start.
Open any code file and start editing. You'll appear on the globe within 30 seconds. The extension detects your language automatically.
The extension downloads the prebuilt devglobe-core binary on first activation, then runs it as a Language Server. The LSP receives file open/change/save events from Zed and sends heartbeats every 30 seconds while you're actively coding. After 1 minute of inactivity, heartbeats pause automatically.
80+ languages including: JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, Rust, Go, C, C++, Java, Kotlin, Swift, Ruby, PHP, Elixir, Haskell, Scala, and many more.
The extension sends programming language, editor name, OS, coding time, the origin remote URL of your current git repo (when present), branch name, and the file path relative to your repo root — never an absolute home path.
Files outside any git repository are not tracked beyond their language. We never read source code, file contents, keystrokes, or commit messages.
Local privacy flags can be toggled in ~/.devglobe/config.toml under [privacy]: hide_file_names, hide_branch_names, hide_project_names (the project flag also hides branches).
Globe-side visibility (anonymous mode, repo sharing on the live globe, profile mode) is managed on devglobe.xyz/dashboard/settings.
This is the standalone repository for the Zed marketplace. The full source code lives in the main DevGlobe extensions monorepo: Nako0/devglobe-extension.