Thursday, September 8, 2016

Minimalistic travel and the Pixel C

I recently took a trip for business and the internal trackpad on my Macbook decided to take a trip of its own right as I was packing up. I decided to grab the Pixel C and use it as my primary computer for this trip.

I know that many many folks have been chucking their laptops in favor of tablets or phones, but I had not found the need to do that yet.

My normal workflow consists of a bunch of VI sessions running with SSH sessions to various hosts where i am writing code plus some windows for email, web lookups and document reading/writing.

On the trip this was accomplished with standard android apps and JuiceSSH (play store link) which did an admirable job but it did get me thinking.

When android first came out there was a great little app called Terminal IDE I had it installed on every android device I had, unfortunately it has fallen into abandonware status. It is a shame because it was a nifty little program.

After the trip I was checking to see if Terminal IDE or anything like it was still alive and I discovered my new favorite app on the Android: Termux (play store link)

Termux uses apt to get all the nifty unix tools that you are used to using if it is not included in the base then you can use apt to get it.

BTW - here is a dump of my apt commands:
apt update
apt upgrade
apt install vim
apt install nodejs
apt install git
apt install gcc
apt install openssh
apt install make
apt install autoconf
apt install python
apt install curl
apt install php
apt install perl
apt install bzip2