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I've worked on a similar setup during the last summer. My laptop's battery busted and since I already own a desktop I decided to buy an iPad and SSH into my des
by rollinDyno 9y ago
I've worked on a similar setup during the last summer. My laptop's battery busted and since I already own a desktop I decided to buy an iPad and SSH into my desktop with Prompt.
Prompt is alright although I need to stay active on it due to the iOS app lifecycle constraints. If an application is suspended for more than 10 minutes iOS will kill it, meaning that if I'm working on a different application I'll constantly receive notifications to switch back to Prompt just to reset the death counter.
I have also spinned up a jupyter server so whenever I want to work on a notebook I'll SSH into my desktop and start the server. I can then use Safari on iOS to do browser based work. I imagine something similar can work for web developers. React Native developers can also upload their applications to hosting services such as Expo or Codepush and work on mobile applications on the go.
- TheArcane 9y ago> If an application is suspended for more than 10 minutes iOS will kill it That sounds ridiculous. Is that still the case with iOS 11? Can you not make an app persistent?
- scribu 9y agoUsing Prompt to occasionally run a command on a remote server might be tolerable, but I’ve found it very annoying to work in as a Vim user. I’m sure it’s not even the app’s fault, but rather a consequence of how iOS and SSH work.
- bergie 9y agoBlink and mosh fix this issue, as with that you can resume sessions even after the app is suspended by the OS. However, this doesn't work perfectly yet: https://github.com/blinksh/blink/issues/59 https://github.com/blinksh/blink/issues/59