carloscabanero
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Comment · 10 months ago
I’m the Blink developer and really curious. Which way do you think Blink is inferior? I think the ssh/mosh tooling is way more powerful, keyboard config, etc. But would love to improve what I can. Currently working on new UI and better access to hosts, so it is a good time.
Comment · 10 months ago
Yes, Blink gives you a local shell with some tools (not extendable), including Vim. It is even possible to mount a remote repository (we call it a Bookmark), and edit locally.
Give it another chance if you want to, I’m always happy to help.
Comment · 10 months ago
I usually pair Claude with tmux, so you can move the cursor around the Claude output and copy, scroll, etc. that buffer is definitely the way to go. And within the chat box, Claude respects known eMacs/GNU shortcuts for cursor movement, so I like that more than Copilot.
Comment · 3 years ago
Im Carlos from Blink Shell, mentioned in a few comments here. Dropped this comment in the thread but thought about leaving my 2c here too as this is something I have been thinking about a lot. Usage and expectations have been changing a lot for these devices:
- At first (iPad2 & 3 years), for those who already had remote machines of some kind, the goal was to simply have a decent terminal on mobile devices to connect to them. The appeal was very clear and I think for a lot of people it offered a different context to do stuff. It still does.
- Things start to grow with iPad/iPhone, Apple was heavily investing on the hardware, and that brought another wave of users. The goal changed, it was not enough to "connect" anymore, but to do real work from these devices, for hours. The talk was to replace your laptop with an iPad, may sound familiar. We thought this wave was going to be big... but it never really materialized. Blame it on lack of software? The OS? M1? ...
- And so I think we are now on a third generation. I don't think the goal is to replace anything anymore. I see the next wave as a mix of the previous two. I want to work from anywhere, access my tools from wherever I am, access the code for my projects, pushing changes fast, etc. And it may be in my desktop computer, or in my coworker's laptop, on my iPad or my phone. Codespaces or in our case Blink Build are different approaches to do that. It is still getting started.
I think we are entering a world similar to what Rob Pike mentioned in this interview (https://usesthis.com/interviews/rob.pike/). The idea is that "state" is not something that you carry all day with you, but it is provided to you when you need it, connecting applications and dev environments from anywhere. That "state" may not necessarily be the Cloud, it will be computers in your office, or powerful remote environments somewhere, etc...
So yeah, if you were expecting Xcode, IntelliJ and XXX coming to an iPad and replacing your laptop, that may already be behind us and maybe even killed on phase 2. And although these apps may not play well in this new environment, it is worth questioning if it is more fault of the environment where we are headed or of the apps themselves. I want to think that Codespaces, Fleet, GitPod, Build, and your multiple machines wherever they are, will all play a part on that.
Comment · 4 years ago
At BlinkShell we recently added support for WebAuthn for SSH keys. WebAuthn signatures have been a part OpenSSH for a while now, but it looks like we are the first client to do so. You can check out a few cool flows here https://twitter.com/BlinkShell/status/1570427813819486212?s=...
IMO, the best part of Apple adding Passkeys support over WebAuthn is that we are finally able to use Secure Keys as well across all devices. If this takes off, I wonder if it would somehow end up replacing FIDO2 for Secure Keys scenarios as wel.
Comment · 6 years ago
Fair enough, thanks!
Comment · 6 years ago
May I ask, why do you keep using Prompt? Full disclosure, I’m one of Blink Shell devs.
Comment · 6 years ago
You should anyway run mosh+tmux. Not sure about this though, ssh still disconnects and you have to reconnect and then launch tmux attach again. I agree it doesn’t seem like much, but just opening any device and continue from where you left off without any extra interaction feels great. It is kinda like auto save on iOS, you could argue that pressing the save and open button isn’t that big of a deal, but once you experience it the experience changes completely.
Comment · 7 years ago
Thanks! There is actually a ton of technology behind the scenes here and there is a whole team working on it too. Definitely not something to do on your own! :D
Comment · 7 years ago
Thanks for your message! Our biggest difference with Vault on Secret Management is ease of use, specially on installation. But Bunkr is also a one-stop solution to do a lot of other things. We think by tapping into threshold cryptography we can now replace hardware keys too, and having everything under one platform is really useful.
Hope this solved your question!
Comment · 8 years ago
This is why I started Blink, seriously. I just wanted to have Cmd as Ctrl and Alt as Meta on my iPad, for emacs.
I even had to go one night to Grand Central's Apple Store and buy an external BT keyboard to run some tests because I realized the Simulator wasn't working properly with the modifier keys. And fortunately I was right, I could make modifier keys work, and it made sense to continue working on Blink.
Comment · 8 years ago
> Can't work on a plane, or wherever there's spotty WiFi
When I moved to the iPad-only I thought this would be an issue. Reality is I cannot code without WiFi anyway (checking documentation, doing research, etc...). I understand that may not be the case for everyone though, but coding without WiFi may actually be the exception.
And for spotty-low speed, that's where Mosh shines. I've even worked on spotty 2.5G tethering from a remote place.
Comment · 10 years ago
David Chisnall is a master too, and a pity that GNUStep and etoileos.com didn't spread more. NEXTStep could have been Mono, long ago.