Am I crazy to be considering an ipad pro/air with working copy, blink/mosh and libterm or a-shell for occasional vim/python hacking?
@evilchili Depends on how much you'll get annoyed by the keyboard missing a few important keys, unless you go with a third-party keyboard in which case it depends on how much you'll get annoyed at the lack of proper keyboard integration. Also I haven't used blink, but Termius gets really annoying with how much it doesn't try to keep connections open in the background, even over mosh.
The iPad is a quite competent remote terminal in general though.
@fluffy "lack of proper keyboard integration" oh good, i'll just start gouging out my eyeballs now... :D Most of my vim these days is actually writing, not coding, so it might work out though. thanks for the perspective!
@evilchili So like... iPadOS works just fine with any random Bluetooth keyboard you throw at it, but the physical integration can be really annoying if the keyboard isn't designed specifically to clip to it. The first-party iPad keyboards are great for general typing but there's no Esc key which can get really annoying, especially with vi, and there's no way to remap the capslock key to anything more useful.
@evilchili Oh the other thing that I keep getting annoyed with is not having a reasonable way to scp or sshfs to my server, although that's more a specific gripe of trying to blog remotely rather than doing programming work.
@fluffy yeh I actually maintain a blogging site with hugo but with a fair amount of python scaffolding. Not hopeful I could run the whole thing local, but shoving everything up through github and then pulling on the remote box would do. question of whether i'm going to be irritated when I'm writing and/or futzing with the toolset.
@evilchili Yeah Publ has a similar workflow to Hugo. The main things that annoy me about blogging from iOS are having to ssh in and vi my entries, and the difficulty in adding photos. Both of those are things which could be fixed with a good sshfs wrapper for iOS Files and a local Markdown editor.
@evilchili although a local git workspace would also work well, since I have a commit hook on the repo set to do all the stuff to push everything to the live site (which is common for SSGs as well). But I don't know of anything like that for iOS.
