I was curious so went to the Blink website and I am very confused. The initial strapline is enticing, "Connect to your cloud on the go, or code all day from the beach." so I read more:
> With Mosh and SSH, Blink is rock-solid, fast, and your all-day-long companion.
Okay, it's starting to get crowded but I want to know more so I scroll down to get some details:
> Mosh was built for constant mobile connectivity.
Isn't this the Blink site? Or is it also called Mosh? Why am I getting the history of an app/service/Lord-knows-what before being told what it is?
> You can flawlessly jump from home, to the train, and then to the office thanks to Mosh.
Still on about Mosh and not only is there not a peep about what it is, I still don't know what Blink is.
> Blink is rock-solid connected all the way.
Now we're back to Blink. What is it? Doesn't matter, it's good! Trust us, the people who won't tell you what it is. What is Mosh? Who knows!
If I guess that Blink is a shell and Mosh is some kind of networking facility will I a) be correct, and b) have guessed more detail about them in a few words than their home page tells me?
Blink is by far the best ssh/mosh app I have found. mosh is a gamechanger if you use mobile data and the interface of the app is the best implementation of a shell I came across so far. If you haven't tried it yet it's worth looking at. Steep price tag but justified by how much you use it.
I just downloaded a-shell so still playing with it.
What I love about Blink is that it supports mosh and it includes tunnels, ssh-agent etc. out of the box (no need to install anything). It seems very well polished for the purpose of remote work. I have a mosh session open with our deep learning server in the lab 24h (works with network outage etc.).
I assume you can setup the same on A-Shell. Will play with it and update here.
mosh support in Blink completely changes the game. Switching networks is trivial and not worrying about the three minute connection timeout just because I'm reading docs in Safari is freeing.
> Mosh is heavily focused on interactive sessions. You could not use mosh for batch programs easily.
Correct, the goals are better human interaction with a high delay internet or server. Effectively allowing the client side to guess a bit as to where your input went (it does decently at it). But the key thing that I've loved is even if my client machine goes to sleep and I go to a different building I'm still connected to the server. That is wonderful. Agreed the connection time is slower. Mosh = Mobile shell.
On mosh's note. It's great experience for slow connection. Totally agree. There is new ios client recently released client with mosh support build-in [1]. Happy user
Looks like Blink. It’s pretty awesome. The layout is relatively simple for using special keys and it works great with a keyboard on larger iOS screens. The UI is also almost entirely text based for workflows once you have servers setup. That was always the most annoying thing about using Prompt and other SSH clients on iPad. Pecking around on the screen to get to a shell before you can start typing away. Blink supports Mosh as well.
Three things:
- Mosh & SSH support: In Prompt and any other iOS ssh client, connections break every 3 minutes. With Mosh that isn't a problem.
- Full external keyboard support: Alt as Esc, Caps as Ctrl, you can have your terminal as you do in your desktop/laptop.
- Speed and rendering: Blink uses Google's HTerm, so it is faster and you can add your own themes and fonts.
Mosh has been around for a while, it's not like "current trendy software". I thought people use it for bad connections (and envied them because of my stuff in the jungle that isn't performant enough for ssh).
The article misses the other great feature of Mosh: It never get disconnected, regardless of the client's state (IP address change, or device sleep mode), and you will never loose terminal sessions.
When this is not so appealing to desktop users, it is a godsend feature for laptop/mobile users. Especially, if you are an iPad user you should try Blink shell app [1] with Mosh. This combination turns the iPad your favorite portable terminal machine.
> With Mosh and SSH, Blink is rock-solid, fast, and your all-day-long companion.
Okay, it's starting to get crowded but I want to know more so I scroll down to get some details:
> Mosh was built for constant mobile connectivity.
Isn't this the Blink site? Or is it also called Mosh? Why am I getting the history of an app/service/Lord-knows-what before being told what it is?
> You can flawlessly jump from home, to the train, and then to the office thanks to Mosh.
Still on about Mosh and not only is there not a peep about what it is, I still don't know what Blink is.
> Blink is rock-solid connected all the way.
Now we're back to Blink. What is it? Doesn't matter, it's good! Trust us, the people who won't tell you what it is. What is Mosh? Who knows!
If I guess that Blink is a shell and Mosh is some kind of networking facility will I a) be correct, and b) have guessed more detail about them in a few words than their home page tells me?
Disappointing.
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