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Blink Alternatives
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SaaSHub
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deskreen
Deskreen turns any device with a web browser into a secondary screen for your computer. ⭐️ Star to support our work!
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Ockam
Orchestrate end-to-end encryption, cryptographic identities, mutual authentication, and authorization policies between distributed applications – at massive scale.
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companion
Bitfocus Companion enables the Elgato Stream Deck and other controllers to be a professional shotbox surface for an increasing amount of different presentation switchers, video playback software and broadcast equipment.
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gef
GEF (GDB Enhanced Features) - a modern experience for GDB with advanced debugging capabilities for exploit devs & reverse engineers on Linux
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SaaSHub
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NOTE:
The number of mentions on this list indicates mentions on common posts plus user suggested alternatives.
Hence, a higher number means a better blink alternative or higher similarity.
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Can your terminal do emojis? How big?
The ChromeOS terminal (hterm[1]) is actually a pretty good terminal, so even a terminal might justify a browser context. Blink[2] on iOS for example uses it.
[1]: https://hterm.org/ (although in the way they do Google seems to have lost interest in updating that site, there's still fixes in the upstream Chromium repo)
[2]: https://blink.sh
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Autossh – automatically restart SSH sessions and tunnels
hence why most throw in tmux/screen on the other end, possibly automatically so:
https://github.com/blinksh/blink/discussions/1526
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Maker of RStudio launches new R and Python IDE
Hosted vs code server is what I used to use: https://github.com/coder/code-server
They've added support in blink as well which is my favorite iOS purchase for productivity on my iPad https://blink.sh/
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Run VSCode and terminal on any iOS device
$20 a year https://blink.sh/#choose-package
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Apple must open iPadOS to sideloading within 6 months, EU says
you can work on it
https://blink.sh/
see also https://docs.blink.sh/advanced/code
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iOS / iPadOS 17 👉 Blink 17
Fixes for the new OS, general improvements, and tons of thanks to all testers for their help! https://github.com/blinksh/blink/discussions/1850
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Apple debuts iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus
You can already do that with an iPad (sans fat OS). If you're using Blink Shell (https://blink.sh) the external display is independent of what's on the iPad too, which works really neatly. This is the exact setup I used as my main dev machine in a previous role.
Would be very nice to see if this works on the new iPhones. A thin client with decent security in your pocket with keyboard/mouse/display at both home and work seems like a very approachable computing setup.
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Apple iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max
I use blink[0] with a 40% keyboard to develop linux program on a vps.
If you want to do programming without wireless interenet, another option is to connect a raspberry pi zero 2w (with usb gadget mode enabled) to the usb c port using a single usb cable. Then the rpi zero will share a ethernet network with iOS device. Then you can use blink (again) to mosh to raspberrypi.local to do the development on the pi.
The reason that I don't do it on android with termux is that there's no high quality terminal emulator like blink on android.
[0]: https://blink.sh
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Buying an iPad Pro for coding was a mistake
There's also Blink [1] which includes a local shell (limited), ssh and mosh support, and comes with a local-first, but remote-dependent, vscode implementation. Works with vscode.dev, code-server (the coder.com and microsoft version), coder.com etc. Not free but a free TestFlight versions available if you accept to be a beta tester of sorts.
I've had moderate success using it, but overall the code-server experience has been a bit lacking, in part due to languages I use, in part due to lots of software still assuming a local-first development environment (code-server/coder.com help with this by e.g. proxying http ports in your dev environment). A real IDE/code editor running on a MacBook is still way superior.
[1] https://blink.sh
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