Booste
Dev tools
remote development environment
SHOW HN2020
How HN took it
1 positive, 0 neutral or asking, 3 mixed, 8 critical, out of 12 comments about the project. Thread score -0.33.
Idea: 1 for, 4 againstExecution: 0 for, 1 againstPrivacy: 0 for, 1 againstDesign: 0 for, 1 againstPricing: 0 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Useful for offloading heavy workloads and onboarding
From 1 comment
A few things come to mind on how this could be really useful: - not having to install things like Docker and Postgres on my own machine, save space, not having to get a computer…
bwhiting2356 on HN
Objections
rsync and SSH already provide similar sync and encryption
From 3 comments
I'm not trying to be snarky, but I genuinely feel like this could be implemented in less than 50 lines of code, maybe even 0 lines of code. You could just use bare ssh and rsync.…
llleftyy on HN> Main improvements over rsync: - end-to-end encryption This is a tall claim, given rsync uses ssh for encryption of connection.
pritambaral on HNbooste looks nice, though i'm definitely not the target audience and usually take issues with developers not wanting to figure out why something they've build only works on their…
411111111111111 on HN
VS Code remote SSH and Docker remote hosts already solve this
From 2 comments
I guess one issue you’ll run into then is that VS Code supports something very similar. Instead of editing locally and syncing, with VS Code, you can run VS Code “locally”, but…
mbreese on HNAre you aware that you can set DOCKER_HOST to something like `ssh://root@example.com` and then run git/editor/docker locally, and the docker client will invoke `ssh` to connect…
sneak on HN
Offline use is impossible since it depends on the network
From 1 comment
A few things come to mind on how this could be really useful: - not having to install things like Docker and Postgres on my own machine, save space, not having to get a computer…
bwhiting2356 on HN
Requests
Support for Jupyter notebooks and tunnelling
From 1 comment
Hi Erik. I don't have the "it works on my machine" problem often, because I mostly work on my own or with very few other people, so I may not be your target audience. I do have…
eneuman on HN
Handling of large data files
From 1 comment
Hi Erik. I don't have the "it works on my machine" problem often, because I mostly work on my own or with very few other people, so I may not be your target audience. I do have…
eneuman on HN
Offline mode
From 1 comment
Thanks for the ideas! I have yet to see what the usage will be, between having one living "shared" environment, or multiple "cloned" environments. Wifi is an unfortunate issue.…
edunteman on HN
Questions
What does it offer beyond vim with mosh or VS Code remote
From 1 comment
What does this have over vim in mosh? For years the ssh type lag made a remote editor too painful. Now we have things like mosh (with local echo) or syncthing or even native vim…
sneak on HN
Alternatives named
rsync and bare ssh
From 1 comment
I'm not trying to be snarky, but I genuinely feel like this could be implemented in less than 50 lines of code, maybe even 0 lines of code. You could just use bare ssh and rsync.…
llleftyy on HN
VS Code Remote SSH
From 1 comment
I guess one issue you’ll run into then is that VS Code supports something very similar. Instead of editing locally and syncing, with VS Code, you can run VS Code “locally”, but…
mbreese on HN
Docker DOCKER_HOST over ssh
From 1 comment
Are you aware that you can set DOCKER_HOST to something like `ssh://root@example.com` and then run git/editor/docker locally, and the docker client will invoke `ssh` to connect…
sneak on HN
Vagrant or Docker Desktop
From 1 comment
Hmm. I like the idea of making development box setup easier with tooling but this seems less flexible than just doing a vagrant up with an Ubuntu config, or using docker desktop,…
lukevp on HN