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I kind of miss being able to SSH into my iPhone and run scripts, or just poke around the filesystem. It was fun to have a terminal app and editor where I could

I kind of miss being able to SSH into my iPhone and run scripts, or just poke around the filesystem. It was fun to have a terminal app and editor where I could edit some code, and then deploy changes to a server. That was about 8 years ago. I might do that again sometime. It's not urgent though, and I wouldn't switch to Android just for that. But I keep an eye on the jailbreak community. I also really like the idea of having a portable keyboard and screen to turn my phone into a little development machine. I think the CPU is actually more powerful than my old 2012 MacBook, although it doesn't have as much RAM.

jsjohnst 8y ago
> It was fun to have a terminal app and editor where I could edit some code, and then deploy changes to a server. There’s a number of apps on the App Store already that allow exactly this. Two of my personal favorites are Blink and Termius (use them both, but for different reasons).
- nathan_f77 8y ago
  Oh yeah, thanks, I was looking at Blink earlier. Haha actually I don't really need it, so I didn't install it. It was more about the feeling of "hacking" my device and doing something that it wasn't supposed to do. And having a real shell with access to the iOS file system, where I could script the phone to do all kinds of things, and write little programs that could run on a cron schedule. Stuff like that. For example, I wrote a little script that would change my iOS wallpaper once every hour, and it would take the images from a Dropbox folder.