Remote pairing from the comfort of your own shell

Evan Light@elight

evan.light@rackspace.com

About me

^

a bit

“Lonely Bunny” by valkeeja

Remote Pairingfrom the comfort of your own shell

“Remote Pairing Stacks I’ve Tried and

Thrown Away”

Mk I Remote Pairing Stack

(2009 give or take…)

A/V chat via Skype

Skype Screen Sharing

Shoulder surfing

We’re all Tony Stark

We hack

We experiment

We evolve

Mk II

A/V chat (then) OSX Chat app

OSX Screen Sharing

Mk III

A/V chat via Skype

Vine VNC (OSX)

tmux

wemux

demo

tmux cheat sheet

Command Action

C-b c New shell

C-b n Next shell

C-b p Prev shell

C-b ' Split horizontal

C-b % Split vertical

C-b <arrow> Move to window

Mk IVBlank slate

A/V chat via Skype

Host pair on my Mac

Wrote provisioning scripts

create user

add SSH public key

tmux for shells and session sharing

vim

terminal-based editor

vim + tmux = modality2

demo

vimux

Mk VA/V chat via Skype

Host pair on my Mac

Wrote provisioning scripts

create user

add SSH public key

tmux for shells and session sharing

vim with vimux

demo

The Dream:

Shell in the editor

Conque

Mk VIA/V chat via Skype

Host pair on my Mac

Wrote provisioning scripts

create user

add SSH public key

tmux for session sharing only

vim with Conque

zsh is sad… 😞 😞 😞

no demo

just no

no.

yes, emacs

Mk VIIA/V chat via Skype

Host pair on my Mac

Wrote provisioning scripts

create user

add SSH public key

tmux for session sharing only

emacs and eshell

Mk VIIIA/V chat via Skype

Host pair on my Mac

Wrote provisioning scripts

create user

add SSH public key

tmux for session sharing only

emacs and term

result: Close

Mk IXA/V chat via Skype

Host pair on my Mac

Wrote provisioning scripts

create user

add SSH public key

tmux for session sharing only

emacs and shell

result: Not quite

multi-term

Mk XA/V chat via Skype

Host pair on my Mac

Wrote provisioning scripts

create user

add SSH public key

tmux for session sharing only

emacs and multi-term

zsh is happy here! 😄 😄

demo

Hosting on OSXAn awful idea

ISP

dynamic IP / DNS

router port forwarding

firewall

file permissions

Mk XI

A/V Chat via Skype

Manually configured cloud host

Manually provision pair

tmux for session sharing only

emacs and multi-term

https://github.com/elight/pairing-server

A/V Chat via Skype

Vagrant-provisioned cloud server

Manually provision pair

tmux for session sharing only

emacs and multi-term

Mk XII(Spring 2014)

demo w/ Sean

What’s left?Automate provisioning pair at server create

Maybe using something like keybase?

Container-ize non-pair provisioning

Update pair to automatically wemux attach at login time

Better term than multi-term?

vim-tmux-navigator

Tips & Tricks

Chat window position

Translucent terminal

A/V window near camera

Step-wise bandwidth reduction

Useful for:

Public wifi (QOS)

3G

Developing world

“Let me drive”

(Remote) pair

For further inspiration see:

pairprogramwith.me

tmux: Productive Mouse-Free Development

Evan Light@elight

evan.light@rackspace.com