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Stop Doom Scrolling, Start Doom Coding: Build via the terminal from your phone
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Re: Stop Doom Scrolling, Start Doom Coding: Build via the terminal from your phone
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Why not use a browser? OpenCode has a webUI, you can simply host that on your machine at home and VPN to it. https://opencode.ai/docs/server/ (sadly no screenshots, but its a pretty good GUI, looks like their desktop app)
You need tmux to be able to resume the same session from anywhere, mosh-server to make ssh resilient to sketchy mobile connections, and blink shell https://blink.sh/ to have a high quality iOS shell with a mosh and ssh client built right in to resume at any time. Far more resilient and performant than a web client.
> and blink shell https://blink.sh/ to have a high quality iOS shell with a mosh and ssh client built right in to resume at any time
I really like Termius, have you tried it? I think I tested out Blink when I was trying various SSH/shell apps and chose Termius over it, but it’s been so long now that I completely forget why.
EDIT: does Blink give you a local shell as well like vs only SSH/mosh?
Re: Stop Doom Scrolling, Start Doom Coding: Build via the terminal from your phone
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I'm fairly sure that levelsio didn't popularize SSHing into a computer from your phone to run a program. We were all doing it before LLMs.
New ideas build on existing ideas. He said SSH into a computer to run Claude Code on that computer .
Yeah, I've never read anything levelsio wrote and I sshed into my computer to run Claude Code five minutes after I installed Claude Code and had to leave the house for a bit.
It's not such a crazy idea.
Re: Stop Doom Scrolling, Start Doom Coding: Build via the terminal from your phone
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there are going to be quite a lot of places where getting a laptop is a considerable expense
Why does it have to be a laptop, and why does it need to be new? There aren't that many places in 2025 where getting a phone with internet is significantly cheaper than getting some scrappy laptop or desktop.
>> There aren't that many places in 2025 where getting a phone with internet is significantly cheaper than getting some scrappy laptop or desktop.
No, but it's not a choice between a phone and a laptop. You NEED a phone. So you use what you've got. I've done work helping developers in less developed countries and you frequently find they're sending screenshots of code they've written on phones.
Re: Stop Doom Scrolling, Start Doom Coding: Build via the terminal from your phone
#195So this is the 4th+ article I've seen on using a VPN to vibe code on your phone. Would an email interface to Claude code work better? - Email Claude to start the coding - Claude emails you with any thing it needs acked on. - you reply back to emails telling it what to do. - maybe Claude can run your program and send back screen shots. seems easier then getting a vpn working. What is the downside to using email?
Email might work, however if you're a Telegram user you could write a bot that runs on your home system that runs the cli commands on your behalf and then sends the output as a response to you. No need to open up any ports on your router.
I have custom scripts I use at home to keep track of various personal data, assisted by an LLM. The idea of using Telegram as a way to have a global, quick, and personal interface from my phone or tablet, is perfect and easy to set up.
Claude is making it easier to have bespoke data and dashboards for anything. We're going to make a lot of them, for all reasons. I've also made apps with Django interfaces, but quick, global interfaces are going to become in demand.
Re: Stop Doom Scrolling, Start Doom Coding: Build via the terminal from your phone
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I'm fairly sure that levelsio didn't popularize SSHing into a computer from your phone to run a program. We were all doing it before LLMs.
I agree, I'm failing to see what's novel here... Running an ssh client from a phone has been a thing forever
RDP clients as well.
Re: Stop Doom Scrolling, Start Doom Coding: Build via the terminal from your phone
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This pretty much sounds like my dream vibe coding dashboard - basically a personal Github populated by AI agents I can assign tasks to. Does this exist yet? Or can something like gitea be setup to behave this way?
Gastown, by Steve Yeggs is that, via tmux. It's rather opinionated and still in development, but it's worth a look if that's what you're looking for.
Steve Yegge is building awesome things in this space, but I've found them too heavy, started using bd when it was small, but now its trying to do too much IMO, so made a clone, tailored to my use case -> https://github.com/cloud-atlas-ai/ba
Re: Stop Doom Scrolling, Start Doom Coding: Build via the terminal from your phone
#198So this is the 4th+ article I've seen on using a VPN to vibe code on your phone. Would an email interface to Claude code work better? - Email Claude to start the coding - Claude emails you with any thing it needs acked on. - you reply back to emails telling it what to do. - maybe Claude can run your program and send back screen shots. seems easier then getting a vpn working. What is the downside to using email?
Email might work, however if you're a Telegram user you could write a bot that runs on your home system that runs the cli commands on your behalf and then sends the output as a response to you. No need to open up any ports on your router.
I've replied with this in another comment, but this seems more pertinent ;)
Thats exactly the approach I took with https://github.com/cloud-atlas-ai/miranda, Telegram bot, PR is the human review point, tests + CodeRabbit catch most issues.
Bot intercepts Claude's AskUserQuestion calls via a hook, sends me an inline keyboard, injects my answer back into the session. Claude keeps working, PR still happens—but I can unblock it from my phone in 5 seconds instead of rejecting a PR based on a wrong guess.
Re: Stop Doom Scrolling, Start Doom Coding: Build via the terminal from your phone
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I'm fairly sure that levelsio didn't popularize SSHing into a computer from your phone to run a program. We were all doing it before LLMs.
New ideas build on existing ideas. He said SSH into a computer to run Claude Code on that computer .
The whole point to SSH into a computer is to run the programs on it.
Re: Stop Doom Scrolling, Start Doom Coding: Build via the terminal from your phone
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Termux with a 10-keyless BT keyboard in bed was a comfy way to solve AOC problems considering it released at midnight in my timezone.
This comment taught me about Termux. Good to know!
Make sure you install it via FDroid. Also grab Termux:API to be able to write little apps with bash scripts. Here's one I did which gives a notification based interface to Pandora: https://github.com/ijustlovemath/pbr