Software development on iPadOS 27

When I started remodeling my office things got a bit out of hand. Since I did not fancy setting up my workstation I simply connected the iPad to one of the Pro Display XDRs, pulled out the travel keyboard and trackpad and used it for a week as primary computing device. So far, so good — I already wrote about my experience using the iPad for software development last year when we got a major revamp of iPadOS. Not much has changed (except that my desk looked like a dumpster during the time of the experiment). The experience without a dock is significantly better than with a dock. The macOS dock can be resized, which helps, but Liquid Glass still feels like it does not scale properly. All elements just feel a smudge too big to be comfortable. That said, most of my day is basically a browser and a full screen terminal window, so to me personally this is not a big deal. iPadOS 27 seems to have improved the general performance of multi tasking a bit, which makes everything feel snappier and…