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Show HN: Recode – Free, open-source, community-driven Codespaces alternative

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Re: Show HN: Recode – Free, open-source, community-driven Codespaces alternative

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Post by lagrange77 »

z9znz wrote: post #10
nudded wrote: post #7

very similar, but seems a bit more polished is https://coder.com , you can write your own terraform modules and run it on whatever cloud you want.

I setup coder self-hosted on a hetzner server, and it was great (and cheap). pair that with a vpn and pihole (same server), and you have a great home-base machine to do all your heavy lifting on. It was especially cool connecting my ipad and having the ability to work (although somewhat impractical without a separate keyboard).

What role does pihole play in this setup?

Re: Show HN: Recode – Free, open-source, community-driven Codespaces alternative

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Post by z9znz »

lagrange77 wrote: post #11
z9znz wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I setup coder self-hosted on a hetzner server, and it was great (and cheap). pair that with a vpn and pihole (same server), and you have a great home-base machine to do all your heavy lifting on. It was especially cool connecting my ipad and having the ability to work (although somewhat impractical without a separate keyboard).

What role does pihole play in this setup?

I would connect to the server as my VPN host, so all my traffic was routed through it. With it running the Pi-Hole ad blocking, I had much faster general web performance.

That had nothing to do with CodeServer except that it was all running on the same box. So access to my code server was limited only to VPN clients, making it more secure; and I only had to connect to one place with my tablet and laptop.

Of course, any services on the server which would make remote requests would also get filtered through the Pi-Hole, so they too might be sped up a bit as any ad gabage would be stripped away.

Re: Show HN: Recode – Free, open-source, community-driven Codespaces alternative

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Post by kylecarbs »

z9znz wrote: post #10
nudded wrote: post #7

very similar, but seems a bit more polished is https://coder.com , you can write your own terraform modules and run it on whatever cloud you want.

I setup coder self-hosted on a hetzner server, and it was great (and cheap). pair that with a vpn and pihole (same server), and you have a great home-base machine to do all your heavy lifting on. It was especially cool connecting my ipad and having the ability to work (although somewhat impractical without a separate keyboard).

Happy to hear! Let us know if you have any issues (co-founder of coder.com here).

Re: Show HN: Recode – Free, open-source, community-driven Codespaces alternative

#18

Post by jeremylevy »

kseistrup wrote: post #16

Recode is also the more than three decades old CLI utility that converts files between various character sets: https://github.com/rrthomas/recode

Oops, I didn't know about this one. Thanks for the heads up.

It's very difficult to find a CLI name that not already taken these days...

Re: Show HN: Recode – Free, open-source, community-driven Codespaces alternative

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Post by kseistrup »

jeremylevy wrote: post #18
kseistrup wrote: post #16

Recode is also the more than three decades old CLI utility that converts files between various character sets: https://github.com/rrthomas/recode

Oops, I didn't know about this one. Thanks for the heads up. It's very difficult to find a CLI name that not already taken these days...

Indeed it is — especially if it is a “generic” name like “recode”.
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