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I re-read this series constantly, man I wish there was an update or another article in the same writing style. It's like digital "quasi-nomad" porn for me, a di
by freehunter 9y ago
I re-read this series constantly, man I wish there was an update or another article in the same writing style. It's like digital "quasi-nomad" porn for me, a digital nomadic lifestyle I can actually live (and I do sometimes). Traveling the city and working from anywhere is a very romantic idea.
My workflow on my side project is pretty similar to his: I use Vim as my editor and tmux (or screen) to handle it all. It's web programming, but most of the work these days is backend so I don't need web debugging tools too much. I do use my Macbook more than an iPad just for screen size, but it works the same everywhere. I do light patches or emergency command line fixes from my phone.
My dev server runs on Digital Ocean for $5/mo. I code in Vim with a very light vimrc (add NerdTree and rails.vim and that's about it). My main tmux window has two panes, the code at the top and a 20-line pane at the bottom for the rails console. The next window has my running puma server. I can shut down my machine and it's all still running in the cloud.
I used to use Cloud9, it's really damn buggy and doesn't work on mobile devices but it was convenient and cloudy. Since they were bought by Amazon I was hoping it'd get more love and they'd fix it, but it's only been worse. It finally got to the point where I couldn't stand it anymore and switched to Vim. It's a nicer workflow than I would have thought, and I didn't even have to give up my mouse. Highly recommended.