Re:Ask HN: Migrating dev experience to windows machine
by chiefalchemist on Friday February 09, 2024 @12:14PM
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I don't want to immediately jump off-topic, but the last agency I was contracted at used Digital Ocean for "local dev". There's a Visual Studio Code extension that uses an SSH connection to let you edit remote files in your local instance of VSC.
The only downside, obviously, is you *must* always have an internet connection; and there's some $ overhead (but to me that's can be offset by not needing a lot of hardware on your desktop). Once you get used to it, you'll barely notice the difference.
Once the contract ended, I went back to working with my traditional local set up. I'm not happy about that. It's a 2024 resolution to get back to using DO.
The only downside, obviously, is you *must* always have an internet connection; and there's some $ overhead (but to me that's can be offset by not needing a lot of hardware on your desktop). Once you get used to it, you'll barely notice the difference.
Once the contract ended, I went back to working with my traditional local set up. I'm not happy about that. It's a 2024 resolution to get back to using DO.