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Re: First Impressions of GitHub Codespaces

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Post by month13 »

sudhirj wrote: post #24

The big draw for me is working on the iPad. If you attach the keyboard it becomes a pretty awesome 'do anything' device, now that you can code on it as well. Can't build native apps yet, but seems like a future opportunity. Web apps / PWA development works great, I can just have the app running in a hovering window / on a quarter of the screen.

Quite exciting, I've been keen to realise my iPad for this sort of thing, and have experimented with code-server.

Does make me lament the fact that I can't tap into the perfectly viable OS beneath the hood, but oh well.

Re: First Impressions of GitHub Codespaces

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Post by jankeromnes »

soco wrote: post #38

I'm surprised nobody mentioned GitPod[1] - it's in business since quite a while in my GitHub projects, powered by VSCode, with terminal, pretty much everything Codespaces does... Any thoughts on such a comparison? Is GitHub reinventing the wheel locally? [1] https://www.gitpod.io/

FYI, the Gitpod blog has some thoughts on this comparison: https://www.gitpod.io/blog/github-codespaces/

Re: First Impressions of GitHub Codespaces

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Post by jankeromnes »

patrick91 wrote: post #40
sdn90 wrote: post #39

I'm pretty excited about what Codespaces is going to bring to the table. I can already see a lot of good use cases. I've been using an iPad Pro as a laptop replacement for the past year and Codespaces makes it a pretty viable development machine. I'd been mulling over switching back to a laptop, but I'll probably stick to the iPad for now. Before I was using Blink shell to ssh into my desktop and run Emacs. Not reall…

do you use codespaces in safari? doesn't work that well for me, scroll using a touchpad doesn't work, and I guess not having a real fullscreen mode is kinda annoying too

FYI, gitpod.io is similar and works pretty well on Safari and iPad

Re: First Impressions of GitHub Codespaces

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Post by sudhirj »

greggman3 wrote: post #65
sudhirj wrote: post #24

The big draw for me is working on the iPad. If you attach the keyboard it becomes a pretty awesome 'do anything' device, now that you can code on it as well. Can't build native apps yet, but seems like a future opportunity. Web apps / PWA development works great, I can just have the app running in a hovering window / on a quarter of the screen.

It's such a contrast to see this and the post by setzer22 right next to each other

Yes and no. So I still have a giant desktop, it’s unlikely that I’ll give that up any time soon. The advantage of being able to code from a portable device is additive, not subtractive.

The setzer22 post is a contemplation of future subtraction, but today my opportunities to code have increased, not reduced.

Re: First Impressions of GitHub Codespaces

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Post by legostormtroopr »

swiley wrote: post #90
legostormtroopr wrote: post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Which ones - we're a pretty lean startup so if you've found some errors, I'd like to know.

(sorry for the long delay, I struggle with compulsive hacker news usage and have noprocrast on.) On ios none of the links on that page appeard to work, coming back with firefox they all do.

Thanks for coming back to clarify, glad to hear its not broken. I'll check the iOS compatibility anyway.

Re: First Impressions of GitHub Codespaces

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Post by fallenhitokiri »

patrick91 wrote: post #40
sdn90 wrote: post #39

I'm pretty excited about what Codespaces is going to bring to the table. I can already see a lot of good use cases. I've been using an iPad Pro as a laptop replacement for the past year and Codespaces makes it a pretty viable development machine. I'd been mulling over switching back to a laptop, but I'll probably stick to the iPad for now. Before I was using Blink shell to ssh into my desktop and run Emacs. Not reall…

do you use codespaces in safari? doesn't work that well for me, scroll using a touchpad doesn't work, and I guess not having a real fullscreen mode is kinda annoying too

AFAIK This is a bug that was introduced earlier this year when WebKit changed how scroll events are handled https://github.com/cdr/code-server/issues/1455

If you can add a shortcut to the dev environment to your homescreen it’ll load the app without safaris control elements which comes relatively close to fullscreen. (Not sure if this will work the way codespaces is built)

Re: First Impressions of GitHub Codespaces

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Post by bblough »

Aperocky wrote: post #81
dividedbyzero wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> vim once you get into it is as powerful as vscode Maybe, with a lot of effort to set it up like that, and a steep and long learning curve with lots and lots of idiosyncracies, because it's really ancient tech that was made for a completely different kind of computer, and you have to actually like living in a terminal and vim's idiosyncracies in particular.

You're probably right, but the advantages of vim in my mind compared to IDE/VSCode/Atom is: 1. Ability to open up any sized file. Anyone who accidentally clicked on a 15mb log file in the directory know what I'm talking about. 2. commands, specifically %s, norm, etc applied over visual mode. norm is particularly powerful when you want to batch edit. 3. macros, the ability to define macros both beforehand, and on the…

TIL about norm. Thanks!
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