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New article I just published:
Dev on the Road: Some options for traveling light and leaving your laptop at home
#ipad #python #softwaredevelopment
https://mkennedy.codes/posts/dev-on-the-road-leaving-your-laptop-at-home/
@mkennedy you can run PyCharm on a Chromebook :)
@mkennedy I share the sentiment about dual booting iPads.
@mkennedy Oh, I hadn't heard of https://github.dev/github/dev yet: absolutely amazing!
@justvanrossum Hey Just! Happy to let you know about it. Github.dev was sold a "just press the '.' key on your keyboard" when on a github repo.
It took me awhile to connect that, while there is no keyboard on iOS that you can do that for web browsers, you can just change the domain suffix and you're good to go.
@mkennedy there's an article that a cursory search failed to turn up of someone who uses an ipad as their "only" dev device.
They actually ssh to a DO droplet or something, but... very similar to your setup!
@ketmorco That is nuts to do it solely on an iPad. But I do guess if you're happy developing over SSH, then why not right? I think gitpod is a bit of a step up from that.
@mkennedy
Cool solution. The best one would be, I think, to not care about that crash problem at all.
I mean: you're on holiday, if there's no one else in your company that is able to replace you in that situation, so that you two both can have normal holidays, the problem is on your company side and they shall fix it.
@AAMfP I hear that. But it's very tricky to have small company and having full time employees in that role.
@mkennedy I do something in the same mindset but I have a local VPN set up at my home and a Mac mini running Ubuntu with code-server (browser accessible VS Code). You can easily do a PWA of code-server on the iPad and as long as I’m connected to VPN it’s like I’m on my home network coding on my Mac mini :) A small Bluetooth keyboard and mouse is all I need after that.
@jrocket_dev Thanks for sharing your setup. That is pretty interesting because you get the full infrastructure and toolchain that way.
@mkennedy "Apple has crippled the iPad with iPadOS." - this is a great way to put it. Upon starting to use an iPad, that was my big disappointment - great hardware worsened by a subpar OS. I guess I was expecting something like "mac without a keyboard" and found it was more of a "big screen iphone".