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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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Post by wahnfrieden »

cliffaust wrote: post #12

I remember when I started learning coding, and didn't have a computer. I literally used to use my phone to write code - terrible experience, but I was determined

I wrote C with a compiler running on my Palm Pilot well before smartphones existed yet

Re: Stop Doom Scrolling, Start Doom Coding: Build via the terminal from your phone

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Post by syngrog66 »

Claude not needed to "code from anywhere you are" and certainly not from your phone. no LLM needed. no agents. Tailscale or any other VPN not needed

use a laptop. (trying to do it with only a phone-factor UI is madness.) have a mobile-friendly ISP if desired or needed. solved. been solved for decades

so much of the AI BS hyping is about inventing supposedly unsolved problems. like Google showing me ads to convince me to use Gemini to write a README. no thanks, kids, have been able to do that for many decades using only my brain, eyes, fingers and vi/vim

Re: Stop Doom Scrolling, Start Doom Coding: Build via the terminal from your phone

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Post by robertfw »

epolanski wrote: post #19
Aldipower wrote: post #8

Coding on a phone really isn't something new. With tmux a lot of people created crazy things directly on their phone. In some countries this even is the only possibility to code at all, because there are no laptops. The example use case images are very funny though! :-)

Which countries in the world don't sell laptops?

there are going to be quite a lot of places where getting a laptop is a considerable expense

Re: Stop Doom Scrolling, Start Doom Coding: Build via the terminal from your phone

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Post by guywithahat »

epolanski wrote: post #19
Aldipower wrote: post #8

Coding on a phone really isn't something new. With tmux a lot of people created crazy things directly on their phone. In some countries this even is the only possibility to code at all, because there are no laptops. The example use case images are very funny though! :-)

Which countries in the world don't sell laptops?

I assume he means people are too poor to have multiple devices, and if you only have one it's probably a phone. That said I'm dubious anyone who only has a phone is doing meaningful coding

Re: Stop Doom Scrolling, Start Doom Coding: Build via the terminal from your phone

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Post by mattlutze »

cliffaust wrote: post #12

I remember when I started learning coding, and didn't have a computer. I literally used to use my phone to write code - terrible experience, but I was determined

I remember having some kind of a shell app on my iPod Touch in college and needing to run and find wifi a few times to troubleshoot something at a job I was student working at.

They were fun times :D

Re: Stop Doom Scrolling, Start Doom Coding: Build via the terminal from your phone

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Post by yoz-y »

FooBarWidget wrote: post #15

Does this approach work for anyone? For my life, I've found that if I'm not behind the computer then I'm not in a productive situation anyway, even with AI access. I don't have a setting where I can concentrate for a long time and think clearly. For examole when watching children, doing groceries, during transit (probably have to change train in 20m, or walking to next destination). No convenient access to a notepad…

It worked for me for finishing my app (vps+shellfish+gemini-cli), I've done a lot of coding like this on the train and in between sets in the gym, picking up on the more complicated stuff when at home.

But also all of the changes I made from the phone were incremental.

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