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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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Post by jeroenhd »

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.

Re: Updating my website from my iPad

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Post by progbits »

ptm wrote: post #3
progbits wrote: post #2

Getting 403. Mirror: https://web.archive.org/web/20230517173906/https://dddiaz.co...

So am I. > 403 ERROR. The Amazon CloudFront distribution is configured to block access from your country.

Yeah I don't understand why anyone would configure that.

Thought I don't feel like missing out, very little substance in the article.

Re: Updating my website from my iPad

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Post by mattkevan »

jeroenhd wrote: 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.

There's already a bunch of good code editors for iOS, such as Textastic, Koder and Buffer.

Working Copy is a fantastic combined Git client and text editor, which I've used extensively to edit my own website, and Secure ShellFish from the same developer is a great SSH client, file manager and editor.

Re: Updating my website from my iPad

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Post by pmontra »

Well, I wrote some Ruby on Rails code on my Samsung tablet some years ago. I mean, I was running the editor and Rails on the tablet, inside Dex for Linux which is an Ubuntu 16.04 container (LXC?) sharing the kernel with Android. Samsung and Canonical worked together to port X11 to the tablet so I had a Unity desktop. I remember it came with VSCode preinstalled inside the container.

It was a little slow but probably not much slower than my laptop back in 2005 when I started coding in Rails, if it was any slower at all.

Re: Updating my website from my iPad

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Post by darrenf »

jeroenhd wrote: 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.

Supposedly you can use VS Code inside Blink already: https://docs.blink.sh/advanced/code

Re: Updating my website from my iPad

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Post by pcardoso »

I did something similar with some configuration to apache, mod_vhost_alias and dropbox. I was able to quickly update some tiny websites I keep. I just edit the files locally and a few secs later they are updated.

In my dropbox folder I created a Sites folder, where I keep some websites to serve. This folder is shared with another dropbox account syncing on the server, from where the contents are served.

To add a new website, I just create a new folder under Sites and point the DNS records to the VPS IP address.

Re: Updating my website from my iPad

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Post by quickthrower2 »

jeroenhd wrote: 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.

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