Code-Server VS neko

Coder | https://coder.com/ | Multiple roles | Multiple locations | Full-time

Coder is an open-source, remote-first software company. Our CDE moves development from local machines to cloud infrastructure, reducing onboarding time while speeding up builds, tests, and workspace configuration for individuals and large dev teams. The developers that we support work at companies like Discord, Dropbox, and Palantir.

[1] Senior Open Source Engineer (US/Canada, Remote)

There’s also code-server by Coder, which you can just run on your own server and open in browser directly. It’s also open source (most tunneling features in VSCode aren’t). https://github.com/coder/code-server

There’s a one-click setup for it in Lunni, a Docker dashboard I’ve been working on (shameless plug): https://lunni.dev/

A recent issue I've run into is that since I started working my first big boy job, I've been unable to download or install any software. I already foresaw this, though, as the main reason I use Obsidian (other than how great it is as a note-taking app) is that all the notes are stored in a very transparent directory structure as markdown files. I simply spun up a code-server instance, cloned my notes repository, and was off to the races.

Our initial foray into remote development was with Coder. We set it up using Docker within a large Linux container (LXC). However, as more developers spun up new environments, performance began to degrade.

I don't think you can do anything serious locally.

IMO, the best option is hosting a VS Code server [0] on a linux desktop and using Tailscale to connect to it via the browser. At that point you have a real compute environment and a pretty usable IDE.

But the screen and keyboard were too small so I gave it up.

[0] https://github.com/coder/code-server

# 版本 CODE_SERVER_VERSION='4.96.2' # 下载 wget "https://github.com/coder/code-server/releases/download/v${CODE_SERVER_VERSION}/code-server-${CODE_SERVER_VERSION}-linux-arm64.tar.gz" && \ # 确保 ~/.local 存在 mkdir -p ~/.local && \ # 解压到 ~/.local tar zxvf code-server-${CODE_SERVER_VERSION}-linux-arm64.tar.gz -C ~/.local # 重命名 mv ~/.local/code-server-${CODE_SERVER_VERSION}-linux-arm64 ~/.local/code-server

Coder | https://coder.com/ | Multiple roles | Multiple locations in North America | Full-time

Coder is an open-source, remote-first software company. Our product moves development from local machines to cloud infrastructure, reducing onboarding time while speeding up builds, tests, and workspace configuration for individuals and large dev teams. The developers that we support work at companies like Discord, Dropbox, and Palantir.

[1] Open Source Engineer (United States/Canada, Remote)

I personally use neko-rooms with my friends for this purpose. Just let's all share a browser in a browser with plenty of options (Firefox, Chromium, Brave, etc.). You can also just use standard neko if you don't need multiple rooms.

Hey, you do you. It just sounds like an expensive way to avoid owning the hardware you want to debug to me.

Also, not to burst your bubble, but there are a few projects out there that do more-or-less what you're describing:

- https://store.steampowered.com/remoteplay/#together

- https://github.com/m1k1o/neko

If you're having fun, then continue by all means. I've just been nerd sniped by your cloud costs and I'm having flashbacks to seeing six-figure monthly AWS bills at startups that refused to buy their own GPU compute.

You could spin up something like Kasm Workspaces, Neko or Docker Webtop.