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Quail mentions (4)

• Square Is Down

  This is absolutely killing me (https://quailhq.com) -- I've got hundreds of antique stores trying to get us on the phone, all wanting to know why their card readers have suddenly stopped working. It's going to be a long, long day. - Source: Hacker News / almost 3 years ago

• Ask HN: Show your failed projects and share a lesson you learned

  Two of these (plus another, Price Parrot, that I forgot to include: https://sandpiperhq.com/pricing !), are spin-outs of a side-project (https://quailhq.com) that I started in 2014and that I've been working on for 7 years -- and that became my full-time job in 2021. That one definitely isn't a failure! The five (six including Price Parrot) are just the failures from this year. I try to live by "fail fast"! - Source: Hacker News / over 4 years ago

• As a solo developer, I decided to offer phone support

  I offer phone support for a niche accounting app (https://quailhq.com), and everything in this article rings 112% true to me -- but especially this: > ...all sorts of people call you, and I’ve really learned a lot by talking with users directly on the phone. Sometimes users call me because they want to report a bug, or they've forgotten their email address. Sometimes they want business advice (!), or they have a... - Source: Hacker News / almost 5 years ago

• [Opinion] Take high paying job or finish out SaaS

  Source: juggled a SaaS side-project https://quailhq.com and a full-time engineering job (Palantir) for years; am now full-time self-employed on the SaaS at roughly the same income I had from the job. Source: almost 5 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