On: Remotely tunneling to a server using an iPad Pro f...

[darrenf]

The "but it's not local and therefore not programming!" style reactions make little sense to me. Programming is an activity; where the code resides or executes doesn't change that fact. How would you have the title "corrected"?

[josteink → darrenf]

If the title says "using device $X as a main computer for programming", that linguistically entails two things:

1. that "main computer for programming" is the one running the stack and software used for programming and

2. that this device is $X.

In this case the main computer for programming is a machine in the cloud ($Y, not $X), and $X is a terminal connecting to the cloud ($Y).

The title for this submission is clearly inaccurate and misleading.

[darrenf → josteink]

We will have to agree to disagree. When I'm programming, as a backend engineer (like the article's author) I am almost always making use of numerous computers at once: my local hardware, a remote dev instance, remote production instances, databases, etc etc. The one I consider to be "main" is the one I use to input commands, write code, etc. Like the author's iPad Pro.

[0xFFC → darrenf]

Did I say it is not programming? Where you got that from?