How vscode Devcontainers made writing this post a joyful experience

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Explain how vscode devcontainers can be used to work with GitHub pages & Jekyll.

background

• I need to run bundle update but I don't have the full ruby env
• I'd like to preview changes locally

how

• Microsoft vscode dev containers has an extremely pleasant Dev experience, as it creates the whole Jekyll configuration automatically
• once the container is up and running I can run shell commands (bundle update) in the vscode integrated terminal
• I can run build task
• I can run serve task that also creates a port forwarding from my host system to the Jekyll container. Navigating to localhost:4000 in my browsers allows me to see my blog with the live changes