Recently GitHub launched its Github.dev service. If you’re browsing some code in a repo, all you need to do to launch an editor is press “.” or edit the page URL, switching out .com for .dev. This launches the core editor from Visual Studio Code in your browser with all the features you need to make a quick change and then commit it back to the repo.

It’s a useful tool for changing your code without having to launch an editor on your PC, update your local git branch, and then make a change. Maybe you don’t have the time; maybe you’re just reading through some comments and have a quick fix; maybe your development PC is an hour away and you need to make a change now. You don’t have to worry about code being left on a random PC if you’ve borrowed a keyboard to fix an urgent bug. You’re not making a clone of the repo; instead you’re using GitHub’s APIs to work directly against your cloud-hosted code.

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