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by ddaalluu2 1525 days ago
Idk if hn is psychic but I just thought how great it could be if I could use my workstation in the next room as a host for writing code on my phone. Because I can take my phone where I'm comfortable and hold it where I please and lay on the sofa, relaxed as opposed to sitting on a chair where blood flow to my feet is semi cut off. (How I would love one of those walk-apparatuses Linus Torvalds has).

So sorry no answer, but also interested.

I remember there were a few online code editors, but trust is an issue and they cost extra.

The way you intend to use it though... I have done it in my PHP days, long ago. It's not good practice. Version control systems are a good invention, even if you sometimes just need a quick fix. Edit locally, push to repo, auto build or manually.

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I do this periodically with my iPad. I use Textastic which is a decent editor with it's SSH mode.

There is also ShellFish, which is an iOS SSH file provider. You can use it to access any files via SSH as if they were from iCloud or OneDrive, etc.

Lastly, there is code-server, which is VS Code in a browser. I've used this from time to time, and it works well.