I remember considering paying thousands of dollars + travel + SF hotel to watch this last year. There's some silver lining in everyone being locked down - we can now watch all the good content from GitHub, Apple, you name, all virtual, remote.
I don't know about Github, but Apple and Microsoft have both run their major events live online for years (and at least the last two WWDCs have been streamed live by Apple in their entirety).
The really interesting thing here will be how these virtual conferences replicate some of the face-to-face aspects of the real-world conferences: labs, workshops, networking with other developers, etc. Github appears to be using this as an opportunity to introduce and trial Github Discussions, for example.
I asked our contact and they said it was coming "later next year", back in December. We'll see if it does, because it's a nice system and it would let a lot of people replace Jenkins, etc.
That keynote from Nat Friedman an hour ago looks interesting. How do you play past segments in this thing? (All I see is this: https://i.imgur.com/KR6UMgu.png)
Also: I've got to say, seeing things from this particular Nat gives me a nice late 90s throwback feeling. He along with Miguel ruled the Linux desktop universe back when we we're all hopeful that the Linux desktop would win over the Windows desktop.
Edit: The FAQ implies recordings are manually uploaded at some later time. (Meh!)
> That keynote from Nat Friedman an hour ago looks interesting. How do you play past segments in this thing? (All I see is this: https://i.imgur.com/KR6UMgu.png)
Yeah, took me some time/clicks to "solve": go to the live stream and click at the red line (I guess later the will cut the segments as separated videos).
https://youtu.be/FhZTPM9ysWk
The live coding set from Sam Aaron was awesome. I'm looking forward to tuning in to his set again once the people stop talking. Lots of other acts in the schedule---looks really interesting!
This is amazing. I've been using VS Code Server ( https://github.com/cdr/code-server ) to self-host a browser-based editor I can access from my tablet and code on the go, but it's been a hassle to keep it all running smoothly..
As long as pricing is reasonable, Codespaces seems like my future solution.
As an alternative to VS Code Server, you can install the vsonline CLI which is distributed via .deb and other package mechanisms. Once installed, it installs the backend side of VS Code Remote and it's distributed by Microsoft.
You _don't_ need to register your machine, you can set up your own authenticating reverse proxy over it and run it on port 8000 like so:
I just wish they open sourced all of this. For compliance reasons, I'm leery of running data through Microsoft unnecessarily and so I only use CodeSpaces and VS Online for personal project.
I run VS Code Server on a headless mac mini at home, and I map a subdomain to my home IP (because it needs SSL for the web workers I believe), and then I can connect to it over https from my tablet on the go. I use basic auth on the nginx proxy, and it works for my needs.
That part is working fine.
The hassle is the DNS mapping because my provider doesn't officially support dynamic DNS, and doesn't have an API, so I am using a variety of unofficial workarounds to automate this part and it's not always reliable, although thankfully my home IP does not seem to change too often.
The main threads are:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23092904 (GitHub Codespaces)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23093091 (GitHub Codescanning)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23092966 (GitHub Insights)