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code-server

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Hosted vs code server is what I used to use: https://github.com/coder/code-server They've added support in blink as well which is my favorite iOS purchase for productivity on…

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HN mentions by year164 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2019-03-05 06:49:07 UTC to 2026-04-01 20:31:40 UTC.

0102030402019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 35 mentions; 9 submissions, 26 comments20192020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 41 mentions; 6 submissions, 35 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 36 mentions; 2 submissions, 34 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 22 mentions; 0 submissions, 22 comments20222023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 14 mentions; 0 submissions, 14 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 6 mentions; 1 submissions, 5 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 9 mentions; 0 submissions, 9 comments2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments. Incomplete calendar period.2026*

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20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC35926
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC41635
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC36234
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC22022
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC14014
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC615
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC909
2026 (partial)2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

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Yep, this works pretty well, but there's two things to be aware of: 1. They aren't allowed to use Microsoft's extension marketplace for legal reasons, so they use their own. It honestly kinda sucks though because not all the extensions are there, they're obviously behind the current version, and tons of extensions don't work out of the box because the "workaround marketplace" doesn't correctly build the extensions (lots of GitHub tickets give the advice of "run npm install in the extension directory"). Of course, that doesn't mean YOU can't configure code-server to use the Microsoft extension marketplace :). Set these environment variables before you start: SERVICE_URL=https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/_apis/public/gallery ITEM_URL=https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items 2. If you're using Chrome/Safari and not using HTTPS, severa
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l extensions (e.g., vscode-vim and the Java extensions) will stay stuck saying "activating extensions" forever. There's apparently an issue with Chrome/Safari not allowing "something" when running over HTTP[1]. This all works on Firefox, but one thing I've found is that vscode-vim fails with some sort of regexp error on Firefox. So you should really be running over HTTPS and using Chrome/Safari. [1]: https://github.com/cdr/code-server/issues/1136
In Microsoft’s web-based version of Visual Studio
Here's my setup: 1) iPad Pro 256gb 11" 2) Apple keyboard case 3) Apple magic keyboard 2 w/ number pad (when I need to really get into it) 4) DigitalOcean VM instance 5) Termius ssh iOS app 6) Neovim on the VM, or sometimes I pull out VS Code via code-server [1] and exposed via #7 7) Custom domain name w/ nginx serving up my projects and services from the VM 8) AirPlay via my Apple TV to any connected displays [1] https://github.com/cdr/code-server
In iPadOS
I would likely use this depending on how transparent it was and the pricing and if it supported RLS etc. I was writing a rust project on a terrible old laptop that took 2-5 minutes for compilation time. I ended up standing up a Digital Ocean instance and used VScode (via Coder https://github.com/cdr/code-server ). And this ended up being the most workable solution. Cut down my compilation times significantly and also helped w/ VScode RAM usage. Not sure how the buisness model for a cloud compiler would work, but I would be interested.
In Thoughts on Rust bloat
I wrote an article about this exact question: https://blog.ivansmirnov.name/what-can-you-do-with-a-persona... Some new tech that hasn't made it on the list yet: - https://github.com/issmirnov/zap - recursive URL expander, can be run at DNS level. Ie, "n/" -> "https://news.ycombinator.com/" or "f/g/homelab" -> facebook.com/groups/homelab - netdata - https://concourse-ci.org/ - https://varnish-cache.org/intro/ - AFP/NFS/samba for file sharing - https://github.com/janeczku/calibre-web - web UI for calibre ebooks - https://jupyter.org/ for python scripts and web scraping - https://github.com/cdr/code-server for an IDE in a tab. - https://www.portainer.io/ if you use docker - https://yourls.org/ for a private URL shortener in your home
In Ask HN: What are some fun projects to try out on a spare Linux file server?

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