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tomvault··on Claude Code escapes its own denylist and sandbox
The adversary can reason now, and our security tools weren't built for that.

Leo di Donato, who helped create Falco, the cloud native runtime security, wrote a technical deep dive into how Claude Code bypassed it's own denylist and sandbox. And introduces Veto, a kernel-level enforcement engine built into the Ona platform.

tomvault··on When AI Molts Your Identity
The hardest thing AI is replacing is not code, it is your identity. It took me weeks to write this essay, because I think that transition is at the root of what we all have to master over the coming years.

I also share my own experience and what it costs to defend your identity, and what opens up when you stop defending.

Most identity transitions used to take decades. AI is compressing that timeline into months. It is removing the parts of the job that were never really about you. And the question of who you are without them shows up fast.

tomvault··on Claude Code on the web
CEO at Ona (formerly Gitpod) here. Every ephemeral environment Ona creates can directly connect to your Desktop IDE for easy handoff. Our team goes from prompt -> iterating in conversation -> VS Code Web -> VS Code Desktop/Cursor depending on task complexity and quality of the agent output. We call this progressive engagement and have written about it here https://ona.com/docs/ona/best-practices#progressive-engageme...
tomvault··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2021)
Gitpod | Fully Remote | Multiple Open Source Senior Engineering Roles | Full Time

gitpod.io is an open-source developer platform that provisions and orchestrated developer environments in the cloud. We are backed by General Catalyst and more than 450,000 developers use the platform.

We are building both company and product in the public:

Our direction https://bit.ly/3wxA9Ep (2min read) Problem & Solution https://bit.ly/3kqbJI9 (10min) How we work https://bit.ly/3EgoZXE (10 min) Attributes & Values https://bit.ly/3om1ZQC (3min)

https://www.gitpod.io/careers

tomvault··on Thanks Microsoft for open-sourcing VS Code Server
There is another story behind this https://www.gitpod.io/blog/cake
tomvault··on How OpenVSCode Server turns VS Code into a web IDE
Johannes from Gitpod here. I've answered this in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28682477 (copied below)

Essentially, we run nightly builds at OpenVSCode Server making it as upstream to VS Code as possible. In contrast to other forks the whole scope of the project is to add a minimal set of changes (specifics about what we added https://github.com/gitpod-io/openvscode-server/blob/main/doc...)

The architecture we use powers both Gitpod and GitHub Codespaces. Several of the devs and organisations that have asked for our implementation & now have adopted OpenVSCode Server referenced the following issue at Code-Server (https://github.com/cdr/code-server/issues/3835).

tomvault··on VS Code in the Browser for Everyone
github.dev is solely the VSCode frontend/editor without access to any compute. OpenVSCode Server allows you to run VS Code on a remote machine and access it with a thin client through the browser. Unlike github.dev you get full access to the underlying OS and can run tests, compilation, install dependencies etc.
tomvault··on VS Code in the Browser for Everyone
Johannes here from Gitpod. Shared some background about differences on Twitter already: https://twitter.com/jolandgraf/status/1442850063953313805?s=...

Essentially, we run nightly builds at OpenVSCode Server making it as upstream to VS Code as possible. In contrast to other forks the whole scope of the project is to add a minimal set of changes (specifics about what we added https://github.com/gitpod-io/openvscode-server/blob/main/doc...)

The architecture we use powers both Gitpod and GitHub Codespaces. Several of the devs and organisations that have asked for our implementation & now have adopted OpenVSCode Server referenced the following issue at Code-Server (https://github.com/cdr/code-server/issues/3835).

tomvault··on VS Code in the Browser for Everyone
Best way is to signup at https://www.gitpod.io/#get-started and allow changelog emails https://gitpod.io/notifications.

We are working actively with the team at Jetbrains to offer a great DevX integrating with their remote development implementation(https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEA-226455).

tomvault··on VS Code in the Browser for Everyone
Hi Johannes here from Gitpod. Copying the answer from our launch post: https://www.gitpod.io/blog/openvscode-server-launch#how-is-t...

Gitpod is all about provisioning and orchestrating ephemeral developer environments (think about it as a resource efficient and powerful orchestration platform for your dev envs).An IDE is just one building block of a working cloud based developer environment, in addition to the operating system, databases, compilers and all the other tools you need to be productive. At Gitpod we want to support the IDE or editor you like best, and providing VS Code through the web browser is just one possibility. Alternatively, you can access your Gitpod workspaces through SSH, local VS Code and soon your favorite Jetbrains IDEs.

If you have a machine somewhere which you would like to access with VS Code through a browser, check out OpenVSCode Server. If you need control over your infrastructure and would like the orchestration capabilities that Gitpod offer you can self host Gitpod.