Dokany Reviews

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Dokany mentions (4)

• I still like Sublime Text in 2025

  IMO remote mounts is a feature of the OS. For Windows, just use yasfw with dokany https://github.com/DDoSolitary/yasfw Or mount from inside WSL. For Linux and macOS, you can mount ssh directly. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• Projected File System

  It's not really the same though. A Projected File System copies the files from the backing store to somewhere on the local file system when requested and then performs IO normally on the local files. For an actual implementation of userspace filesystems on Windows see dokany: https://github.com/dokan-dev/dokany. - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

• Ask HN: What are some good resources for learning about low level disk/file IO?

  I lead a project that included shipping a filesystem driver and a virtual disk on Windows. What I did to learn the lower-level APIs, and perform initial testing on the driver, was write a "mirror" drive. The user-mode code pointed to a folder on disk, the driver made a virtual disk drive, and all reads and writes in the virtual disk drive went to the mirror folder. On Windows, you can implement something like that... - Source: Hacker News / about 3 years ago

• Add USB connected phone as video source

  You'll need this ressource installed in 1.X version to make it work : https://github.com/dokan-dev/dokany. Source: over 3 years ago

GitHub Codespaces mentions (152)

• OpenCode Hit 140K Stars. Why Terminal Agents Won 2026.

  First, remote dev environments became table stakes. GitHub Codespaces, Gitpod, and self-hosted dev containers became how serious teams worked. Every engineer I know who ships to production now SSHs into a box they didn't provision, edits files with whatever editor is installed, and commits from a terminal. An IDE-bound agent requires you to also forward your IDE to the remote box, which most people don't bother... - Source: dev.to / 3 months ago

• Introducing codespaces.el: The Best Way to Use GitHub Codespaces

  This package provides support for managing GitHub Codespaces in Emacs and connecting to them via TRAMP. It provides a handy completing-read UI that lets you choose from all your created codespaces. - Source: dev.to / 5 months ago

• Don't get scammed on an interview.

  GitHub Codespaces provides 60 hours of free compute time every month, which is more than enough for scoped home assignments or interviews. It’s a full VSCode in the browser at github.dev or vscode.dev. - Source: dev.to / 8 months ago

• Stop Wasting Hours on Environment Setup - These Tools Will Save Your Sanity

  GitHub Codespaces - Cloud development. - Source: dev.to / about 1 year ago

• VSCode's SSH Agent Is Bananas

  https://github.com/features/codespaces All you need is a well-defined .devcontainer file. Debugging, extensions, collaborative coding, dependant services, OS libraries, as much RAM as you need (as opposed to what you have), specific NodeJS Versions — all with a single click. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago