🐈 Thomas Chatting
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github codespaces ✨

While playing around with Ruby on Rails (I’m looking at converting this site to run on Rails because reasons) I noticed that GitHub Codespaces is now out of Early Access/beta.

The offer is fairly simple, and super robust. Add a branch of your repository to Codespaces and it launches a cloud instance of your repo in VS Code with a console. In the background is a compute engine/cloud instance/VM running a bunch of popular systems out of the box, and it’s super easy to add more.

To add Ruby on Rails and run my instance, for instance, all I had to do was:

$ rvm install ruby-2.7.4
$ rvm use 2.7.4
$ gem install rails
$ rails server

You get a considerable amount of free-use for running your dev environment, and the enterprise options don’t seem ridiculous, either.

Controversial thought: GitHub has gone from strength to strength since the Microsoft acquisition–with the exception of sunsetting Atom. Rip Atom.

Complete aside: https://github.com/github/renaming