Exploring Remote Development Environments

Why would you want to switch your developer environments from containers to nix? Ádám from LastPass has a few reasons.

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Featuring:

• Ádám Szücs-Mátyás – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
• Justin Garrison – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
• Autumn Nash – GitHub, LinkedIn, X

Show Notes:

Links of the week

• Software needs to be more expensive
• NASA moon rover lunar terrain vehicle proposals

Interview

• Devenv

Remote dev environments

• Amazon Workspaces
• VScode code-server
• Gitpod
• Codespaces

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!