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Updating my website from my iPad
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Re: Updating my website from my iPad
#32God 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…
Apple wants the iPad OS developer experience to be bad
Their #1 focus is lock-in, preventing being commodified, and extracting value
No apps that run operating systems, no apps with windowed environments, no app-store-like apps / third party app stores, no browser engines, no Flash, terrible mobile safari experience, no OS mods / jailbreaks, no desktop-style cursors, physical iPad keyboards lacking escape keys. Wanting 30% of all payments for digital goods that occur on an iPhone.
Being able to eg "run Docker on your iPad" would go against all that. I think it's also a big part of why they charge $99/yr for being a developer - otherwise people would be able to sideload apps much more easily
Nice article related to this: https://subconscious.substack.com/p/aggregators-arent-open-e...
Hard to imagine just how different things might be right now if things were more open. iPhones are always on and connected to the internet - you could run servers from them! maybe mesh networking could actually be a thing?
The mother of all demos would not be allowed on the app store. Squeak/smalltalk would not be allowed. Feels disrespectful to humanity that the most popular platform in the US is so locked down. Idk how things would change here without government intervention -- this all seems to be in shareholders' interests.
Seems like a good time to be running a competitor. iOS being so locked down means they'll have lackluster support for the long tail of desired AI use cases. And cross platform development via react native is really good now, imo.
Re: Updating my website from my iPad
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#34Earlier quoted context omitted.
Same here. This should be illegal: not really different from racism in my opinion.
Presumably this isn't about things people are stuck with (skin color, etc.) but things they choose (laws, etc.) and while discriminating on the former should be illegal, discriminating on the latter generally shouldn't be. Although when scaled up to such a large group, I can understand the perception of being almost entirely stuck in a situation (because it's not an individual choice for practical purposes) even when…
> Presumably this isn't about things people are stuck with (skin color, etc.) but things they choose (laws, etc.)
That is weird. I was never asked to choose my laws. Maybe sometimes I can have an imperceptible influence by being able to vote on a person who might have some say in the laws.
What I'm saying is by far and large laws are things people are stuck with just as much as their skin color.
Re: Updating my website from my iPad
#35"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…
I mean it's not that strange. I block China, India, Russia, The Philippines and I stopped getting drive-by hacking attempts entirely.
Re: Updating my website from my iPad
#36Earlier quoted context omitted.
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
Or Blink Code which runs VSCode in it's own browser control and has a filesystem extension.
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#37Overengineering for HTML pages.
Re: Updating my website from my iPad
#38God 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…
The Inspect Browser app mostly makes up for not having dev tools in Safari.
The background app issue is my biggest problem. I kind of work around it by using my phone to avoid app switching on the iPad.
No, actually, the lack of a damn escape key on the iPad's Magic Keyboard is my biggest issue. Yeah I map capslock to escape but my lizard brain can't handle that. I have a pair of server-side tricks to map ` to escape in bash and vim but it's a pain when I'm hopping around systems all day.
Re: Updating my website from my iPad
#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
Same here. This should be illegal: not really different from racism in my opinion.
Presumably this isn't about things people are stuck with (skin color, etc.) but things they choose (laws, etc.) and while discriminating on the former should be illegal, discriminating on the latter generally shouldn't be. Although when scaled up to such a large group, I can understand the perception of being almost entirely stuck in a situation (because it's not an individual choice for practical purposes) even when…
I never chose the law, I never ever voted for the ones who chose laws of where I live in, which is where I'm born.
I'm being discriminated based on where I'm born (and can't move from for many reasons): So it's the same.
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#40I 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
Or hit . to start a browser-based VSCode for that repo.