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colin charles

colin charles
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Loves travel. Into databases, open source, community, remote work. Developer who communicates.
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Joined September 2024

I tried many apps, but went back to notebooks. Field Notes in particular. Get a subscription, they're great.

though, i'd take a leaf from myfitnesspal. let there be a "streak amnesty". if you missed yesterday due to travel or whatever reason, and you fill up the food you took in today, the streak continues. so its effectively 48h :)

I like doing remote development, and Blink Shell makes the most sense. I have a box at Hetzner for this (DigitalOcean/Linode/AWS/etc/ are all good options), and the iPad has cellular, which is great. Remember to remap keys for extreme productivity.

That said, you might also be surprised that there are a few apps (they don't cost much, and if you really want to save $$$, you could compile many):

  • code app is strangely very cool!
  • Pyto - if you're coding in Python

I have Working Copy (pay for it, otherwise you can't push to your git repos), and I also do use Textastic.

This is still not as powerful as doing stuff on my Macbook Pro, but that one doesn't have cellular, and I only tether when in need.

Edit: I also found a self-hosted option for VS Code that i have not used, but might actually be great to further power the iPad development environment.