[mkohlmyr]

I've been experimenting with something vaguely similar in the form of getting a ChromeBook and using a Nitrous VM for programming projects.

I initially used (and preferred) Koding, but their shift away from solo accounts made me switch. I find it very strange that they have such a good core product that they could simply focus their efforts there and instead so much of their effort seems aimed at building an integrated slack / hipchat / .. competitor. They could integrate with them and have much a better selling point.. I digress..

It's oddly unburdening to not have any projects on your laptop but at the same time have the ability to access them whenever from any machine. I firmly believe it's the future.

[mark_l_watson]

Same here: I have experimented with nitrous.io for programming and using a Chrome based editor that works with DropBox and Google Drive for editing my leanpub book project -- all on a Chromebook. The advantage is that this setup works on any laptop or PC I sit down in front of. My only complaint about nitrous.io is that their web IDE does not work on my iPad Pro with Apple keyboard.