interesting read and lots to glean - but seems to draw a false distinction between local and cloud in many areas - env portability/consistency/using prebuilds

interesting read and lots to glean - but seems to draw a false distinction between local and cloud in many areas - env portability/consistency/using prebuilds as an example could have been done with in house CD/vagrant/packer ~10y ago. This post doesn't focus specifically on that, and there are additional benefits to the approach taken, but the notion that local dev is incompatible with these types of technologies is a consistent background theme in the writing also, referring to emacs as non graphical and 'shell based' is a bit off to say the least.