Urban legend, former IMDb editor, conference speaker, Seattle CoderDojo organizer. Love finding inspiration in dev tools and products, then sharing it with dev communities.
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Seattle, WA
Education
BA in Creative Writing, self-taught + some certification courses in modern programming languages
Why not run a headless Linux, SSH in to do any config or CLI stuff, and use remote FS (usually managed with SFTP or SCP) from your favorite editor to edit code locally?
Back in the PHP 5.3 days, I used the remote FS functionality in KomodoEdit and a terminal program at work. It's possible to get that in something as lightweight as VS Code now. I think there's even a plugin for it available for Notepad++.
For my personal projects, I ran a WAMP setup, ensuring the version #s of my PHP, MySQL, and Apache matched my production LAMP server.
It works, if you have reliable Internet connection and a VPN setup to go with it at all times you want or need to do work. Many tasks are easier and faster over more or less virtual LAN, such as fuzzing, stress testing and direct DB interactions on big amounts of data. If the dev server is reachable through a local virtual network interface I can work with it while on long commutes and when ISP:s fail me.
As for VS Code being lightweight, it's more efficient to run a VM with vim, mycli, Chrome with a few pages open and the web serving stuff. It rarely consumes more than 5 GB of RAM, while VS Code happily chews up the double on its own with a few plugins and the same amount of open files. While I use Notepad++ for certain tasks it is a fairly crude coding environment.
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Why not run a headless Linux, SSH in to do any config or CLI stuff, and use remote FS (usually managed with SFTP or SCP) from your favorite editor to edit code locally?
Back in the PHP 5.3 days, I used the remote FS functionality in KomodoEdit and a terminal program at work. It's possible to get that in something as lightweight as VS Code now. I think there's even a plugin for it available for Notepad++.
For my personal projects, I ran a WAMP setup, ensuring the version #s of my PHP, MySQL, and Apache matched my production LAMP server.
It works, if you have reliable Internet connection and a VPN setup to go with it at all times you want or need to do work. Many tasks are easier and faster over more or less virtual LAN, such as fuzzing, stress testing and direct DB interactions on big amounts of data. If the dev server is reachable through a local virtual network interface I can work with it while on long commutes and when ISP:s fail me.
As for VS Code being lightweight, it's more efficient to run a VM with vim, mycli, Chrome with a few pages open and the web serving stuff. It rarely consumes more than 5 GB of RAM, while VS Code happily chews up the double on its own with a few plugins and the same amount of open files. While I use Notepad++ for certain tasks it is a fairly crude coding environment.