What are you using?

The company I worked at got acquired by a big tech company. We're switching from Google suite to Microsoft, Mac to Windows, Slack to Teams, etc. It's pretty painful as transitions go, and if not for golden handcuffs I'd be gone.

I'm not sure if I'll ever be happy with Visual Studio though, so I use Jetbrains Rider.

Monopolies becoming more of a monopolies while the US is weaponized to protect them.

=== is strict equality in only JS/TS though!

Can VSCode GUI

So, you're going to ditch GitHub because of Microsoft, but you're trying to keep using VSCode, which is also Microsoft?

It's not just GitHub. People are also using VSCode, despite it slowly suffocating the non-MS dev ecosystem.

Microsoft switched from the really aggressive "Embrace, Extend, Extinguish" of the 90s and early naughts to a much slower and more subtle process that's still just as unfriendly to the open source / free software ecosystem.

For one thing, you can't do a code search on GitHub unless you have a GitHub account and are logged in.

Codeberg has a 750mb limit, for me that is not enough. I need to store asset data as well.

Meaning you have your own machine to host on or how does it work?

I've been using Codeberg and Codium for a while.

Issue on every github project should be "hosted on github" (just kidding kinda not really) Has github ever actually helped discoverability?

I use my own gitea server. If I was willing to pay for a more solid service I'd probably go for GitLab.

yes. I have a rack in my basement and host gitlab out of one of my servers.

it's available over LAN or VPN.

nightly backups to a nas and weekly syncs to S3.

S3 seems like a really expensive way to backup personal data. Are you doing it to achieve the offsite backup?

I currently dont have an offsite and im weighing up having a NAS at my parents place.

So your company either works with Microsoft or has a weird idea of security. Teams does not work without taking home to Microsoft. My company tried everything but couldn’t make it work, so they extended their Skype for business service for some years.

I hope they switch to Linux when this is over.

S3 is within my budget, but it can get expensive. and yes it's my off site.

if I had someplace else I could trust like you mentioned I might do that but it's just too much data to send.

my gitlab backups are around 80gb.

Been in business 20 years with regular pen testing and had no complaints and have some pretty large clients.

.Net is popular in the UK for enterprise.

Might do you well to make less assumptions.

It is laughably easy to fake those green squares that for a while, ages ago, I had some commit counts like 14000 or so... every single day.

There are so many tools to also fake human like commit counts for those pretty green squares that if I came to know of my senior engineers hiring on that basis, their estimation as interviewers in my eyes would take a nosedive.

Hey have you considered lakefs based solutions for backups? I think you can set the retention rules up so that only backups upto so many months are retained and the rest are removed. That way only the diff in the backup files need to be uploaded.

I hate VSCode. So. Much. I honestly can't see how anyone gets anything done wiþ it.

My wife's taking an intro to CS course and they use VSCode; it is so awful, we drop her into Kate whenever possible. Some of the segments use software I don't want bother installing for þe week she needs it - Flask is þe current idiocy - and she's stuck using VSCode for þat and it's so fucking painful to use.

Honestly, how are people using VSCode for work? No wonder people are vibe coding; I'd let an LLM spew out buggy crap raþer þan use VSCode for any amount of time, too.