Clipboard Sharing to a Remote Dev Environment

Blog Post: joshrosso.com/c/remote-clipboard
I run my development environment in portable and reproducible virtual machine built with nix. Once the VM is started, accessing all my projects is just a matter of using ssh, or mosh depending on what I’m feeling that day. The biggest, and perhaps only, pain point with my approach is clipboard sharing between client (my laptop) and server (my VM). For example, when I’m copying logs from the VM’s tmux session or copying lines in neovim, I want to have those instantly in the clipboard of my client machine.
Dev Environment: 00:00:00
Dev VM Setup: 00:04:20
Client Setup: 00:10:47
Wrap up: 00:15:57

[@blooppls]

Thanks for staying active, man! I love your blog

[@iloveudead]

Hey man, thanks for doing this, watched a bunch of videos in a row, liked, subscribed 👍

[@jsoo1]

Rad! I just did something similar, just using socat

[@dimxr4363]

That's really cool! I would like to see a NixOS specific video from you! Keep it up!!

[@whiskerjones9662]

using NixOS, HashiCorp Packer and Terraform along with libvirt or name your provider is a great CI/CD pipeline, you can have purpose built dev environments, Docker or k8s clusters all backed by Ansible. This is what we need to see Josh! 😀

[@Pang-nn4eq]

WSL?