Bo’s Blog

Got very frustrated today because as I’ve been pulled into more and more projects as I develop my skills, nowadays I’m constantly working on multiple threads at the same time—and my work laptop only has 16GB of RAM, so everything starts to feels unbearably SLOWWW recently!!!

The annoying part: it’s hard to get a better laptop as long as the current one is still technically “working fine.”

But, a good thing about working in a company that is heavily relying on Cloud is that you can always get access to plenty of servers, and I claimed one of the spare servers and turned it into my remote linux dev environment, and suddenly, Game Changer!

No more running 5+ projects locally.
No more local Docker chaos.
No more WSL overhead.
VS Code now just serves as a network editor, and I can work on 10 projects at the same time very smoothly.

(And yes, I use VS Code because IntelliJ is too heavy. Funny enough, the resources I “saved” by switching from IntelliJ to VS Code are now fully consumed anyway.)

Honestly, this feels like how modern development should work: remote dev servers, SSH from anywhere, and your full environment always ready. You don’t even need to carry your laptop even if you are on-call — if something urgent comes up, just open Termius on your phone, SSH into your dev server, and everything is there: environment, dependencies, runtime.

Happy Coding!