Tag: ios
Further adventures in iPad coding
Coding on an iOS device (in my case, a 9.7 inch iPad Pro) can be frustrating, but I’ve found some tricks to get things done. For Advent of Code I have been working in rust, and while home for the holidays, I am developing from an iPad. As such my requirements for development are as follows: An iPad based text editor A way to build rust code A way to quickly test rust code and see the results Ideally auto-completion for rust code While iPad code editing apps exist, as well as some capable IDEs (looking at you Pythonista), you usually are confined to writing your own code in the app and using a few standard libraries. Read More
Wed, Dec 23, 2020
N Tricks for Better Shortcuts

Recently I’ve been playing with the iOS Shortcuts app to make checklists, draft blog posts, time my coffee, combine images and other quick tasks. If you haven’t given it a try yet, it’s essentially drag and drop programming environment that allows you to quickly and easily create powerful programs that run on your iOS device. It has built in ’actions’ for a large amount of features, from creating for loops, to more complex actions like image resizing, and running scripts over ssh.

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Sat, Oct 3, 2020