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Re: GitHub Codespaces

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Post by pknopf »

xyst wrote: post #450
threeseed wrote: post #356

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Gitlab is a bit of a mess though: a) Gitlab.com is ridiculously slow. Even the CEO admits they failed to invest in it. b) You can't disable features you don't need so you end up with a sidebar full of Kubernetes and Security features for a Git project dedicated to documentation. c) Staggering amount of open issues and merge requests so you feel discouraged from even raising anything since it just gets lost in the wee…

I don’t remember gitlab being this cluttered, these new features you mention must be relatively new. Haven’t used them since they allowed an intern to purge the production database. Kind of glad I have stuck with github thus far.

Intern? I don't remember that detail being shared.

Really!?!?

Re: GitHub Codespaces

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Post by rattray »

nsomaru wrote: post #505
AlphaWeaver wrote: post #424

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GitHub's editor is useful for simple fixes, (formatting, markdown, typos,) but Codespaces seems extremely useful in building a reproducible dev environment for more complex packages / projects, including build tooling!

Yes but OP was talking about simple fixes in the first place

Even simple fixes often need to be run/tested before a PR can be put up with confidence.

Re: GitHub Codespaces

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Post by marviel »

torben-friis wrote: post #415
riazrizvi wrote: post #408

Hypothetically, say I wanted to build, I don't know, a new spreadsheet that ran Python, runs on macOS and Linux. I hope it will give Excel a run for its money. Since Excel is so disappointing outside Windows. Now I know Microsoft has a long history of safeguarding trade secrets, they were always very aggressive in this regard, from the beginning, the Xerox Parc days, and they still are. They state in their Investor R…

Microsoft is pushing for a future with dumb terminals and online services. I think this is just a move that gets them closer to the point where a low power tablet/laptop combo (surface like form factor) can be all that a developer needs to work. There's a lot of reasons why Microsoft will want that, among them that if they can sell a solution that works in cheap terminals, they can tie corporate customers into their…

I think you're looking for Hanlon's Razor: "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity"

Re: GitHub Codespaces

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Post by jedieaston »

ablekh wrote: post #449
sdesol wrote: post #386

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I think the most important thing that most people maybe forgetting is, GitHub maybe announcing these features, but these features were the results of acquiring companies that were solely focused on these features for years. So if you take this into consideration, GitHub's feature has not only been in works for a while, but they have been refined to a point that GitLab will have a hard time catching up to. There is no…

I think that you are wrong on VS Code Remote not being open source. Here is the relevant repository: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-remote-release . Corresponding official documentation ( https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/remote/remote-overview ) states that Visual Studio Codespaces is essentially a managed service of Visual Studio Code Remote Development. BTW, there is also an interesting alternative, the `cod…

That repo doesn’t have any code in it, it’s used purely for issue tracking and syncing with the VS extension repo, I believe.

Re: GitHub Codespaces

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Post by eloff »

symplee wrote: post #502
eloff wrote: post #399

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Chair, desk, distraction free environment, fast computer, fast internet, multiple screens, consistently good sleep, diet, and exercise. Stable emotional environment (relationships). You could easily get better than 1% from each of those. I'm ruthless about optimizing these. Software tools, keyboard shortcuts, libraries, frameworks and saas software are also good targets to optimize that often don't get enough attenti…

(Serious question) I'm curious to hear more about "ruthlessly optimizing" your emotional environment and relationships. That is not something heard everyday... Or if you'd prefer not to personally summarize, are there any books, articles, videos, etc, you can recommend that expand on this overall life philosophy?

It's not the right word for that, but in general just be extremely picky about serious qualities in your partner. Ditch bad relationships and maybes quickly, because there is a high opportunity cost. Value peace in a relationship, and stay away from people who like to fight.

Re: GitHub Codespaces

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Post by shaklee3 »

cbhl wrote: post #318
plexicle wrote: post #281

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The SSH plugin is insanely good. I can dev from a Windows machine and SSH into my Mac and do React Native (native) iOS modules. Even my zsh shell acts as if it's local. Running `pod install` from Windows. It's seemless.

+1 to this. $DAYJOB has some proprietary ssh handling, but I can dev from my work-issued macbook into a Linux desktop in the office and vscode "just works"

Agreed. It's completely changed my productivity for the better. I don't even remember the code is remote.

Re: GitHub Codespaces

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Post by shaklee3 »

dleslie wrote: post #427
ivalm wrote: post #31

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Their remote development capability is amazing and was quite a game changer for me. Having a nice ide where all of the plugins work on a remote server as if everything is local is so nice!

Emacs has had Tramp for ages, which does this. Yes, it's amazing. :)

That's not the same at all. The emacs one is equivalent to all the other text editors that were able to open and save to SSH. Vscode allows remote plugin installation, so things like intellisense work on a code base of millions of lines remotely.
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