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by lostintangent 5y ago
I'm really sorry to hear you had this experience :( I'm not sure who you spoke with, but this perspective definitely isn't representative of the team and/or how I'd ever want to see us talk with developers. I'm
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by lostintangent 5y ago
If folks want to use a GitHub repo for note taking, you can also try GitHub.dev, which gives you the power of VS Code, to edit repos entirely from the browser. Since VS Code has a prolific ecosystem, you can enhance and augment your note ta
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by lostintangent 5y ago
Agreed! Unfortunately, most of the Codespaces team aren't even in the SF area, in order to actually receive this cake (like most modern teams, we're heavily distributed). But I love that this gave awareness for Camisha, and her un
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by lostintangent 5y ago
If folks are curious about the kind of use cases this enables, I wrote a quick article last week that highlights some of the things that are currently possible (e.g. codebase walkthroughs, web playgrounds, knowledge-base management): http:
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by lostintangent 5y ago
Yep! That’s what I use for my personal notes.
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by lostintangent 5y ago
Absolutely! If you end up checking out WikiLens w/GitHub.dev, don’t hesitate to let me know any feedback you might have. I’ll be iterating on the experience based on my own usage, but I’m keen to ensure this works well for others as we
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by lostintangent 5y ago
After GitHub.dev was released (hit “.” on any GitHub repo, to open it in browser-based VS Code), I immediately saw the notetaking workflow that I wanted: a GitHub repo, storing markdown that I can own/control, but editable in the brows
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by lostintangent 5y ago
Yep exactly! You have access to full-fidelity VS Code, minus the capabilities that require compute: tasks, terminals, and debugging. Over time, as extensions start to add support for this browser-local compute model, github.dev will enable
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by lostintangent 5y ago
I have some of the worst home wifi possible, and have been comfortably developing from Codespaces for over 6 months :) Editing happens locally in the client (and is synced to the service in parallel), and so you shouldn’t notice any latency
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by lostintangent 5y ago
If you create a Codespace, then install Projector, you can securely forward its server port and then access it from your browser: https://docs.github.com/en/codespaces/developing-in-codespac... .
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by lostintangent 5y ago
The IntelliCode and Copilot teams have been collaborating closely together, since we want them to provide a "better together" experience. However, the underlying tech isn't the same. Copilot is powered by OpenAI Codex, and en
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by lostintangent 5y ago
I wrote a GitHub Gist management experience for VS Code, since I wanted an extremely easy way to capture notes, docs and code snippets throughout the day: http://aka.ms/gistpad . It completely transformed my behavior of writ
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by lostintangent 6y ago
This is awesome to hear! So did you recently join a team/company that used CodeTour to help onboard new devs? If so, that makes me so happy :D
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by lostintangent 6y ago
Hey! When you record a tour, it simply creates a JSON file that can be committed/maintained as part of the associated codebase. Then, when someone takes the tour later, they're simply "reading" that file locally in their
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by lostintangent 6y ago
You are my total hero for building this! Please let me know if there's anything you need from CodeTour in order to improve this experience :D
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by lostintangent 6y ago
With CodeTour, you can have "content only steps" (introductories, interstitials), steps that speak to directories, and also, add steps to files that don't necessarily support comments (e.g. JSON). So there seemed to be some v
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by lostintangent 6y ago
I'm exploring this exact thing right now! I'm hoping to have something out in the next couple of weeks.
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by lostintangent 6y ago
I originally added the Git ref solution, as a simple way to enable "resilient playback" for some scenarios. In practice, that seems to work pretty well for many folks. But I agree that this isn't a full solution to the proble
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by lostintangent 6y ago
This is so awesome to hear! Thanks for sharing that feedback :D
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by lostintangent 6y ago
Great idea! I've been thinking about creating a repo that could store tours for other repos. That way, the community could contribute them, without needing to check them into the target repo itself. Similar-ish to the definitelytyped e
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by lostintangent 6y ago
Yep! It originally started as a personal "hack" project, but it's now being officially supported.
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by lostintangent 6y ago
Hey! Thanks for posting this :) I'm the author/maintainer of CodeTour, and so I'd love to help answer any questions or thoughts about it!
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by lostintangent 6y ago
If folks are interested in browsing (and editing) GitHub repos in VS Code without cloning, the GistPad extension might be worth checking out: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=vsls-con... . It’s not necessa
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by lostintangent 6y ago
Very cool! I maintain a VS Code extension that allows creating, editing and commenting on gists, directly within the editor: https://aka.ms/gistpad . I’d be interested to explore an integration here, since it would be cool t
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by lostintangent 6y ago
I was asking a similar question for numerous use cases (e.g. code snippets, book reviews, notes). Gists are so broadly useful, but relatively few developers actually use them. Personally, I found that incorporating gists into my daily workf
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by lostintangent 6y ago
If folks are interested in this workflow, but want to auto-sync their changes to a GitHub repo, I’ve been maintaining a VS Code extension for managing code snippets, and notes/Roam-like wikis, and it includes full Foam interop: https
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by lostintangent 6y ago
I built my own PKM tool to solve this exact problem. I spend a ton of my time in VS Code and GitHub, and I wanted a really simple way to store/access my code snippets and notes, without having to leave the editor, and in a way that I c
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by lostintangent 6y ago
I’m building a VS Code extension, that provides a CodePen-like playground experience, but integrated into the editor. I wanted a way to easily create and share runnable code snippets/samples (like a “visual repl”), but using local file
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by lostintangent 6y ago
CodeSwing is entirely local, and your code is stored in a directory, that you can choose to version/backup however you’d like (e.g. a git repo).
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by lostintangent 6y ago
Hey! Yeah currently, the swing simply generates a static HTML file, composed of the various files in the swing, and then renders that in the preview window. As you type in the editor, it tries to “intelligently” update that specific file, a

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