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Updating my website from my iPad

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Re: Updating my website from my iPad

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I know VS Code is Electron anyway, but why would you need an online editor? Couldn't Microsoft (or anyone who's forked it) just release VS Code for tablets? Surely something as powerful as the iPad Pro can handle a fancy text editor.

Or for a simple site update, use the file edit function in Github

Yep, I've updated GitHub pages sites from my phone with the editor many times. Not ideal, but works in a pinch.

Re: Updating my website from my iPad

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God I wish iPad OS was a better developer experience. Github's Codespaces feature is awesome, but as a front-end dev there is no way I could use iPad/iOS to build a website. There is no dev tools. The OS keeps trying to suspend apps/tabs in the background when I switch between them. I use the Vim extension in the VS Code remote editor but certain key combos on iOS straight up didn't register. Maybe I'm asking for too much.

Re: Updating my website from my iPad

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post #4

I know VS Code is Electron anyway, but why would you need an online editor? Couldn't Microsoft (or anyone who's forked it) just release VS Code for tablets? Surely something as powerful as the iPad Pro can handle a fancy text editor.

I think you answered your own question. Electron doesn't support iOS as a build target due to imposed sdk restrictions. So it's not a hardware issue but a platform limitation.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electron_(software_framework...

Re: Updating my website from my iPad

#14

God I wish iPad OS was a better developer experience. Github's Codespaces feature is awesome, but as a front-end dev there is no way I could use iPad/iOS to build a website. There is no dev tools. The OS keeps trying to suspend apps/tabs in the background when I switch between them. I use the Vim extension in the VS Code remote editor but certain key combos on iOS straight up didn't register. Maybe I'm asking for too…

Why don't you use Termius and SSH into the Codespaces instance? That way you could just use vim directly from there.

Re: Updating my website from my iPad

#15

God I wish iPad OS was a better developer experience. Github's Codespaces feature is awesome, but as a front-end dev there is no way I could use iPad/iOS to build a website. There is no dev tools. The OS keeps trying to suspend apps/tabs in the background when I switch between them. I use the Vim extension in the VS Code remote editor but certain key combos on iOS straight up didn't register. Maybe I'm asking for too…

Mosh on server and blink shell on iPad with a VPS running the actual Vim (or NeoVim) is a much better experience. I am using LunarVim with LSP support, so I can get functionality close to what Vscode provides.

I still wish I could run things locally without an internet connection, I am considering some portable SBC but it seems a waste of potential, as the iPad is much more powerful.

Re: Updating my website from my iPad

#16
This is what I see when I visit the link:

    The Amazon CloudFront distribution is configured to block access from your country. 
So I did learn something from the article, if I ever want to exclude visitors to my site from certain countries.

Re: Updating my website from my iPad

#17

God I wish iPad OS was a better developer experience. Github's Codespaces feature is awesome, but as a front-end dev there is no way I could use iPad/iOS to build a website. There is no dev tools. The OS keeps trying to suspend apps/tabs in the background when I switch between them. I use the Vim extension in the VS Code remote editor but certain key combos on iOS straight up didn't register. Maybe I'm asking for too…

re: tabs suspending in the background

It's not talked about much, but one of the benefits of Stage Manager from iOS 16 is that all apps in the same "app set" are running concurrently and not getting suspended. So if you have your editor/ssh/browser in one app set, you can freely switch between them without fear of them suspending. And they can still be full screen, so no need to suffer the lessened screen real-estate, if you don't need to display 2+ windows at once.

Re: Updating my website from my iPad

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"The Amazon CloudFront distribution is configured to block access from your country. We can't connect to the server for this app or website at this time. There might be too much traffic or a configuration error. Try again later, or contact the app or website owner. If you provide content to customers through CloudFront, you can find steps to troubleshoot and help prevent this error by reviewing the CloudFront documentation. "

People are strange

Re: Updating my website from my iPad

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"The Amazon CloudFront distribution is configured to block access from your country. We can't connect to the server for this app or website at this time. There might be too much traffic or a configuration error. Try again later, or contact the app or website owner. If you provide content to customers through CloudFront, you can find steps to troubleshoot and help prevent this error by reviewing the CloudFront documen…

"The Amazon CloudFront distribution is configured to block access from your country"

I feel offended by this message. I don't know why, i shouldn't care. I just click every article that makes it to nyc top

Re: Updating my website from my iPad

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God I wish iPad OS was a better developer experience. Github's Codespaces feature is awesome, but as a front-end dev there is no way I could use iPad/iOS to build a website. There is no dev tools. The OS keeps trying to suspend apps/tabs in the background when I switch between them. I use the Vim extension in the VS Code remote editor but certain key combos on iOS straight up didn't register. Maybe I'm asking for too…

Why don't you use Termius and SSH into the Codespaces instance? That way you could just use vim directly from there.

Also could install a browser based VSCode on that remote server and access that.

https://github.com/coder/code-server

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