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0 pointsnozzlegear2y ago0 comments

Same here, the keyboard plus iPad Pro has been an incredible combo for me. I’ve written here on HN before about how I use it to write code from the couch, bed, and even hotel rooms by SSHing into the Mac in my office and using Vim. I’ve got an Apple Vision Pro and am planning to test exactly that setup tonight.

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pama2y ago· 2 in thread

Did it work fine?

nozzlegearOP2y ago

Honestly it wasn’t bad at all! I’m sort of surprised how nice it was to work with using that setup. I had a little bit of trouble because the terminal/ssh app I like on my iPad (Blink) doesn’t work well at all on AVP, so I had to find another one. I ended up with La Termina which has a UX built for AVP.

I think my only other complaints would be these:

1. Scrolling in Safari can be annoying depending on the website. Last night I was trying to refactor some GitHub Actions, and scrolling through the Action run page, it really wanted to get stuck selecting random parts of the GitHub UI that were close to what I was looking at but definitely not what I was looking at. I want some kind of cursor I can pick up and move in those scenarios I guess.

2. I don’t know why but I kinda expected my iPad keyboard to just work with the AVP, but it obviously did not. I wanted it to work like it does with the Mac, where I can just connect to the iPad as another screen and also use its peripherals, but that was not the case, so I had to run up to my office and grab a Bluetooth keyboard.

All in all it’s not a bad experience so far. I’m not sold on it being better than the iPad just because the AVP is so heavy. But it’s definitely cool having a gigantic 4k terminal floating in the air above my bed while my wife reads her book and calls me a turbonerd. :P

pama2y ago

Thanks. There is a market for us turbonerds coding in bed in a VR.

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