// From 'It works on my machine' to 'It was written by a machine' - GitHub Codespaces & Copilot

Being a developer is hard. From knowing the building blocks of programming, through to keeping on top of the latest languages and frameworks. That’s before we even think about running systems in production But at some point, we’ve all uttered those words ‘It works on my machine’. Or, may have looked up code snippets from our favourite search engine What if there was a better way for both? In this demo-led session, Chris will introduce GitHub Codespaces and GitHub Copilot, explaining how they can improve your developer experience and make you even more productive!!

Setting up a development environment—installing the right SDK versions, extensions, and tools—wastes hours and causes 'works on my machine' problems. This episode shows how VS Code's Remote Containers extension and GitHub Codespaces solve this with containerised, reproducible dev environments defined in a devcontainer.json file. See a live demo of editing cloudwithchris.com entirely in a browser-based Codespace.

Chris and Matt deploy the World Events Engine to Azure Container Apps — encountering and fixing a real-world GitHub Actions deployment bug caused by parallel runs generating duplicate container names. The episode covers Dapr storage queue bindings, service invocation between microservices, random bar-type modifier logic, and a viewer-prompted conversation about using GitHub Codespaces to standardise the development environment.