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Devcontainers: how to pack your dev environment in a lunchbox (and keep it tasting good)

Mon, 20 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

“It works on my machine.”

And the new laptop, production, and your coworker’s machine couldn’t care less. That’s how the ritual starts: “what version of Node do you have?”, “did you have this lib installed?”, “the tests pass for me.”

Devcontainers exist precisely to kill that genre of arguments. The concept is simple enough to feel like an insult to your intelligence: instead of having a different dev environment on every laptop, you carry the environment inside a Docker container.

Rewriting from scratch: 'hold my beer'

Fri, 10 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Every developer hears that little voice sooner or later.

It shows up on some random afternoon, after wrestling with a chunk of code that looks like it was written out of spite, and it whispers something like: “this thing is a dumpster fire; give me a couple of weeks and I’ll rebuild the whole thing from scratch, clean and proper.” It speaks with the confidence of someone who’s already lost their patience, with a certain contempt for everything that’s been built so far, and with an almost religious faith that this “new me” finally, truly knows how to do things right.