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All I can recall right now.
How may of these do you use regularly?
All of them. I have a lack of required devices.
I don't like having to carry my computer to various rooms
and so I have them set up around the house.
Some have specializations but mostly its and redundancy and convenience.
I have a lack of charges. Wiener dogs have chewed through a few.
Awesome! This is a life I could definitely live. I'd also read a post on some of the details of managing your config across devices, your cloud, etc.
Ruby did the same with one of mine recently, but how can I stay mad at that face?
I run my dev environments in Cloud9.
I store most files shared on my network to my Hackintosh
which has terabytes of storage.
I make great use of Google Drive
I have paid version of Dashlane.
Nice.
Do you just have a single dev environment in Cloud9? Or multiple? I’d be interested to hear the details of your setup, since I’m imagining you push as much state to the cloud as possible, so that this multi machine setup is seamless 😁
Also, are you using all of these machines for work? Or a mix of work and personal?
I have a Cloud9 environment for each project.
Cloud9 has limitations which are unfortunate.
I wish I could use Cloud9 with CloudFormation to provision tens of servers at once for the purpose of teaching but it's not possible as AWS has heavily neglected Cloud9 automation where you can only automate the creation of Amazon Linux Cloud9 environment with no way of running a script afterwards. Amazon Liunx has problems and so I can't even automate that step having to manually use the console to spin up Ubuntu environments.
Every intern and dev at ExamPro has a Cloud9 environment and it saves us so much time.
No worries having to figure out docker, no full days lots because your dev environment broke.
We wrote a bash script which setups the dev environment. It has to manually run, but at least it's only 1 action.
I have Cloud9 env for every project that I work on. Since servers only run when you use them I'm not too worried about multiple instances running at the same time.
I'm seeing more IDE services spin up but I can't justify the subscription costs where Cloud9 is so inexpensive. If one of these IDEs can match the same functionality as Cloud9 I would strongly consider architecting my only solution so I can automate setting or rebuilding environments
We attempted to connect Cloud9 to ECS but it simply was not possible.
I just use a cluster of Raspberry Pis. 😂
In all seriousness, I use the following regularly for coding in this order:
Hackintosh :O It's still a thing, I can't believe I forgot about them. I had one back in college while there was no way I could afford an actual Mac. I'd love to build one again though, from scratch with all the right components. Just seeing your boxes makes me want to assemble one. I think I have a new (old?) hobby.
My last Hackintosh was built several years ago, I've been meaning to do one again as well! Except I've been looking for a good laptop that can be made into a hackintosh... no luck there yet... :/
The Fire Tablet has been a real star. Very inexpensive relative to an iPad (I bought mine on Prime Day) and it fulfills my basic needs of reading and video for traveling.
My SO is wearing her Fire Tablet into the ground. Was really hoping for USB-C on the new model so it wouldn't be the only non-USB-C device in our house 😞
MacBook Pro. That’s it for 99% of the time.
I also have an iPhone, but use it mostly for reading these very articles in the morning, the rest of the day I tuck it away into a drawer because all the chit chat from messages is really distracting.
And I have a Kindle chock full of books and guides that I use as reference sometimes.
I've cut way way back, but it's still a little out of control.
If we're counting my partner's gear as well, it gets really nuts.
I try to use most of them for testing and debugged at least.
Old, pretty shitty Dell Laptop running Windows 10 (only use it for Adobe products).
Old, slightly less shitty HP Desktop running Ubuntu (main Dev machine).
Old, very shitty iPad 2(?) (reading things on the toilet).
Old, very shitty Galaxy S5 (occasionally testing mobile).
I need some new hardware. 😂
Right now a MacBook Pro mid2015, iPhone 7, iPad 2018, Apple Watch Series 4 and I just bought a 2019 iMac. I only use the MBP and iMac for development, though I sometimes read dev books on my iPad, if that counts!
How's the new iMac? I have one from 2017 and love it, but I'm looking to upgrade as I got the minimum specs.
Just saw this! I don't have another iMac to compare but it's been a HUGE performance difference from my MBP, mainly because the processor in my MBP is a dual core and I got the 9th generation i5 (which has 6 cores) on the iMac. I suppose that if you have the minimum specs and you're looking for an upgrade it'll probably be a good buy since you can upgrade the RAM yourself and save a loooot of money.
I've seen some people include some other devices, so here we go:
~~ Development ~~
2015 13" MacBook Pro
2018 Mac mini
2019 iPad mini
iPhone X
2nd-Gen iPad Pro - I don't use this as often since getting the iPad mini
For gaming, I use a custom built PC. And a Nintendo Switch.