2022.md

Community Highlights (2022)

December 23, 2022

• Events & Conferences

  • Ongoing Advent of Code event in the Discord server

• Community Heroes

  • @PalanikannanM and @Henit_Chobisa are the new community heroes. Check out their Gitpodification work.
  • @soupbowl actively supported community members and encouraged helpful discussions in the Discord server.🧡

• Content

  • Better container development on Apple M1 Macbooks with Gitpod - blog post by Gitpod
  • DataStax workshop using Gitpod
  • @Alexisshared Gitpod <> iPad love!
  • @SimonSkinnergave a shoutout to Gitpod

December 16, 2022

• Events & Conferences

  • @marco_zille hosted a workshop: Contribute to Gitlab with Gitpod and the GDK

• Content

  • DOP Podcast #189 - Code Anywhere on Any Device With Gitpod

• Gitpodify

  • Awesome Gitpod - New Gitpod awesome list and samples for getting started with Gitpod

December 9, 2022

• Content

  • VSCode's URI Handler in Gitpod & Codespaces by @eliostruyf
  • Authentication providers in Gitpod & Codespaces by @eliostruyf

• Gitpodify

  • @Palanikannan_M Gitpodified RocketChat's community repo

December 2, 2022

• Events and Conferences

  • Advent of Code with Gitpod

• Content

  • Talking about integrations with JetBrains tools and Gitpod by @laurentkempe
  • Svelte Sirens: Form Actions - Svelte Sirens covers forms in SvelteKit

• Projects

  • Dotsh - A fast dotfiles and system configuration installer optimized for Gitpod and power users by @axonasif

November 18, 2022

• Projects

  • @kalepail enabled participation in Stellar Quest code challenge game using Gitpod 👾
  • @mikebarkmin created a template for Java Shapes and Sprites

• Gitpodify

  • Qovery x Gitpod integration - Launch Gitpod workspaces from Qovery dashboard!

November 11, 2022

• Events & Conferences

  • @Airball presented about sustainability and Gitpod at J-Fall Conf.
  • @LostInBrittany and @scraly talked at @devopsbarcelona about Terraform

• Content

  • Custom Java distribution on Gitpod guide by @Maciej Walkowiak
  • Gitpod with YugabyteDB blog post by @FranckPachot
  • Ansible on Gitpod article by @lorenzo_bettini, In collaboration @Lou and @Anton
  • Sadpods and how the Map is not the Territory blog post by @lpmi-13

• Projects

  • @FranckPachot created a template for testing Mastodon deployment
  • @vulcansql configured Gitpod for VulcanSQL with DuckDB quickstarts
  • RocketChat now available on Gitpod

November 4, 2022

• Events and Conferences

  • @Airball gave another talk about Gitpod at JFall Conf
  • Community Office Hours: @Foxhoundn presented a game he built solely on Gitpod
  • Office Hours: @emattiza's demo on using Nix with Gitpod is now on YouTube!

• Content

  • Using Gitpod with Ansible blog post by @lorenzo_bettini

• Gitpodify

  • @Jean-Philippe Baconnais raised a PR to Gitpodify the GitLab CLI

  • @Maciej Walkowiak gitpodified a new CLI tool that generates springboot applications

  • @k33g#4721 shared his Gitpod workflow as he's learning about rustlang!

October 21, 2022

• Events and Conferences

  • Devoxx Belgium - @andreduarte#0135 spun up a Gitpod workspace on a huge IMAX cinema screen at #devoxxBE!
  • Office hours Demo - @emattiza#2251 shared how he and his team uses Nix on Gitpod with a bunch of other cool tricks!

• Community Heroes

  • @soup-bowl#9999 and @david.bakin#0108 were the top contributors helping out others this week! 🙌
  • Shoutout to @Asmit#2485, @Hardik#0497, @nVitius#0248 for showing willingness to contribute to Gitpod

• Content

  • JavaScript workshop with Gitpod about Web Testing - by @Nikolay Advolodkin#9308
  • Set up vue-spa for Shopware extension development- blog by @Shyim#5257
  • Setting up Gitpod for blockchain development - blog by @Om#8871
  • @wilmarques#0956 made Quick Chat entirely from his iPad using Gitpod 📱
  • @erickwendel_ created a tutorial to Build a JavaScript runtime on Gitpod

• Projects

  • AWS without AWS - @omenking#6661 created a LocalStack template to learn AWS on Gitpod, locally!
  • Composer package to run Shopware on Gitpod by @Shyim#5257
  • Gitpod template for a powerful Python notebook experience by @IanHellström
  • Template to quickly spin up a RF=3 Yugabyte lab with Gitpod by @FranckPachot

• Gitpodify

  • Example of a thymeleaf Gitpodified project by @jrz813
  • @lpmi-13#2049 implemented SadServers for Gitpod with @david.bakin#0108

October 14, 2022

• Events & Conferences

  • The Gitpod Team were at Devoxx Belgium this week 🎉

• Code Contributions

  • @Asmit#2485 has been contributing to our docs with lots of positive energy!

October 7, 2022

• Events & Conferences

  • Panel discussion about Java remote dev with @magicaltrout#7414, Airball#0026, @csweichel#9823 and @brunoborges.

  • @MrSimonEmms#4377 gave a talk at @KubeHuddle explaining why @Gitpod ditched #Helm and built a custom installer to gain open-source sanity

  • Community Office hours: @sarah11918#7017 shared a lot about her unique dev setup using SamsungDex and on other mobile devices.

  • @simonswiss ran a live workshop with 12+ challenges, all on Gitpod!

• Content

  • @pawlean#7337 did a podcast where she talks about Gitpod and its incredible community 🧡

  • @Hamees wrote an article showcasing how Gitpod simplifies the process of contributing to opensource!

  • Create a Gitpod template for an Oracle Databasse development blog by @lucasjellema#4937

  • Using Gitpod for Magento development in-depth article by @Luke Collymore#7228

  • @ginelliunit showing off his fancy SurfaceDuo

• Gitpodify

  • @Shyim#5257 Gitpodified Shopware for making contributions easier!

September 30, 2022

• Events & Conferences

  • Panel discussion about Java remote dev by our community heroes and @magicaltrout#7414 and @Airball#0026

• Content

  • First steps with Gitpod article by @lucasjellema#4937

  • Idiomatic Gitpod article by @William J. Ghelfi#4758

  • @woss shared the trick regarding HMR livereload on Gitpod Web-VSCode

• Gitpodify

  • @Emrah Samdan#9432 and team built a Gitpod integration for https://serverless.com letting you to build cloud apps directly from your browser !

  • localstack X Gitpod Run cloud applications with LocalStack and Gitpod

  • @benvp created an integrated template for Elixir/Phoenix development in Gitpod

  • @Nikolay Advolodkinran Advanced Selenium Automation workshop where he also Gitpodified the repo!

• Projects

  • @soup-bowl#9999 integrates Gitpod for developing his FirefoxCSS UserStyle theme

  • @k33g showing off his cool zellij (a tmux alternative, but in Rust ) terminal workflow on Gitpod 🚀

• Code Contributions

  • Oracle .NET team published their Oracle Developer Tools for VS Code on open-vsx for the community!

September 23, 2022

• Events & Conferences

  • Community Office hours: Another successful Office Hours session! Thanks to Community Hero, @Julien, for an interesting demo; you can watch the replay and find more information in the Slack archives

  • Datastax X Gitpod Workshop: Slay the Complexity of Kubernetes Inner Loop Development [1]

• Community Heroes

  • Clark is a new member but has been actively helping others in the community and giving good input/feedback on Gitpod/DevX.

• Content

  • allyourbasepair#7447 built a tutorial series on how to genetically engineer organisms using a Go package they also created.

  • DrupalPod for the contribution and beyond - blog post by roberto

  • Diving back into ephemeral dev environments - blog post by Jonatas Emidio. He also built a tool to help him start new, empty workspaces.

September 16, 2022

• Events & Conferences

  • @jshare showcases Gitpod on a talk at JavaZone.

• Community Heroes

  • @david.bakin and @William J. Ghelfi continue to rock on! 🦸

• Content

  • @Carter Bryden shared about Gitpod on the Thinking Elixir podcast.

  • @Jean-Philippe Baconnais talks about creating Gitlab runners on Gitpod.

  • Another person not buying a new laptop because of using Gitpod! ✨

  • Ralf D. Müller uses Gitpod for training workshops!

  • Jared White shares about his new dev workflow with Gitpod.

  • Foxhoundn shared a method of quickly opening Git repos on Safari without a browser extension!

  • @jrz813 runs Gitpod on his Jaguar.

September 9, 2022

• Events and Conferences

  • Community Office Hours: Hosted another one of our bi-weekly Community Office Hours with Asif and Simon!

• Community Heroes

  • Shoutout to Community Heroes David and William for actively helping with questions this week in the community 🧡

• Content

  • @mfts created an easy-to-follow guide for contributing with Gitpod. [1] [2]

  • What we learned growing a community from 500 to 5000 blog post by Gitpod

  • The easiest way to start with Deno blog post by @Jonatas

  • josepjaume runs Gitpod on Steam Deck™️

  • Gitpod made @mcmaxter think twice about buying a new Macbook for coding

• Gitpodify

  • @mthmulders Gitpodified https://github.com/mthmulders/mcs to make contributing easier.

September 2, 2022

• Events & Conferences

  • Brandon Roberts mentioned Gitpod on this Podcast!

  • Kevin and kkoe played around with Gitpod on their Playbattlesnake stream

• Community Heroes

  • @david.bakin and @William J. Ghelfi#4758 are the top community contributors this week on Discord! 🦸

• Content

  • I coded on a Tablet for more than a week blog post by @David Lorenz

  • @Jean-Philippe Baconnais#4575 created an awesome Gitpod cheatsheet

  • Using Gitpod on an existing Magento 2 project blog post by @Luke Collymore

  • Self-hosting Gitpod on Tencent Cloud blog post by Yaohui Wang

  • Swyx and Daniel Bryant talked about the rise of dev environments like Gitpod!

• Gitpodify

  • @Maxim Kochurov Gitpodified Pymc [1] [2]

  • Ant Design Blazor was Gitpodified! [1] [2]

• Code Contributions

  • @gengjiawen contributes to the workspace-images, fix: pacakge manager setup for Node.js

August 26, 2022

• Content

  • Community Highlights

August 19, 2022

• Community Heroes

  • @david.bakin and @Luke Collymore join the Community Heroes crew! Thank you both for all your advocacy and contributions!

• Code Contributions

  • @gengjiawen has been actively contributing to the betterment of workspace-images

• Content

  • @Beuj#6823 thoughtfully shared his solution to the “open README.md in preview mode” problem. [1] [2]

• Projects

  • @Foxhoundn turned Storybook.js into a game development tool.

August 12, 2022

• Events and Conferences

  • Highlights of community office hours

    • A wonderful Gitpodder presence.

    • Giving the stage to the community was a success; it made it more fun and interesting! In my - opinion, most of our office hours SHOULD be community-led.

    • The heroes that presented were proud of their projects and their use of Gitpod.

    • Great tweets about the session [1][2][3][4][5]

    • Great feedback internally [1][2]

    • Great feedback in the community [1][2]

• Community Heroes

  • Gitpod X Maciej on August 11, 2022 joined us as a Java-focused Community Hero, contributing to Add 10 Gitpod community heroes in target group

  • Community Hero Mathias shared a NestJS template for the community to use and has been actively helping the rest of the community!

  • Community Hero soup-bowl has contributed to the overall positive culture in the community by giving thoughtful responses to general questions and off-topic conversations

  • David Bakin was active during Office Hours and overall helping as many people as he can across the channels

  • Quickly helping Zan (Dev Advocate from CircleCI) with issues he was having built trust in him using Gitpod for workshops [1]

  • Community Heroes have been using the new Heroes assets [1]

August 5, 2022

• Community Heroes

  • David Bakin has been proactively helping out the rest of the community with questions this week
  • Casey(soup-bowl), William and Joshua Price are mostly active and hanging out with others -m0ham3dx#5231 is new and has been engaging in discord questions/conversations and he also appeared in yesterday’s webinar quite actively

• Content

  • @thinkjrs published this method of GPG signing on a gist.

• Gitpodify

  • Knut Erik created this awesome Gitpod WP MariaDB template

July 29, 2022

• Content

  • Luke Collymore created a blog post and video about using Gitpod with Magneto 2 project [1]

• Gitpodify

  • @Jean-Philippe Baconnais updated his Quarkus template recently [1][2]

  • Joshua Price - Gitpodified aero.

  • knut-erik - Gitpodified juice-shop/juice-shop#1849

July 22, 2022

• Community Heroes

  • Community Hero, Will, helped the community with quite a few questions this week
  • Stefan has been actively answering questions posted by other community members once again!

• Gitpodify

  • Joshua made a PR to a GitHub repo.

July 15, 2022

• Community Heroes

  • David Bakin has been helping quite a few community members the last few weeks [1]

  • Stefan has been actively answering questions posted by other community members this week [1]

  • New community hero! Vincenzo joins us (we’re now at 25 Heroes !) We first had a sync July 4, 2022, he submitted an application and I approved him due to his presence in the Rust OSS community.

• Code Contributions

  • HonkingGoose created a massive PR on our website going through typos [1][2]

July 8, 2022

• Community Heroes

  • There is a new new member from Germany actively participating in questions and other discussions on discord + github

• Content

  • You can easily self-host Gitpod again and even run it locally, devcontainers, and more.

  • The Gitpod link sometimes not being added to PR descriptions on several repos; this has been resolved.[1][2]