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Post by RavSS »

PopePompus wrote: post #151
cess11 wrote: post #142

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why would that be preferable to Termux?

Because, wonderful as Termux is, it has a very nonstandard filesystem layout, so installation scripts for something like Anaconda will not run without extensive modifications. And Termux has no access to /proc, /dev etc., so lots of utilities fail. Since Terminal provides a full Linux VM, all programs that will run on Linux just work as expected.

Termux can access the full file system if you have root access, which is how I play around with it; however, running a VM is a safer and easier route, especially as smartphone manufacturers are making it tougher to root the device you own.

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Post by zhoujianfu »

I made something very similar for myself and now have decided to open it up to others if you want to help me beta test.. free for all and it sets you up with your own hetzner vps and you even share my claude code max account: clodhost.com

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Post by RobotCaleb »

stavros wrote: post #193
elemdos wrote: post #188

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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.

No, somebody famous had to influence you for it to exist. The real progenitors are always other people.

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Post by cyberrock »

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?

Having the means doesn't mean the would-be programmer is in charge of the purse. I got my start coding at the local library because my parents wouldn't get me my own computer until I was in high school.

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Post by cyberrock »

guywithahat wrote: post #25
epolanski wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

The initial version of Copyparty seems to have been written on a phone: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46056869

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Post by handfuloflight »

blauditore wrote: post #97

So, we've spent ages, blood, and tears building better UIs than text, and now with AI everyone is suddenly expected to type instructions on the phone? Yes, I realize this is hard to avoid for coding in particular, but generally I'm tired of typing text on my phone. And no, I don't want to talk to it either.

How much information can you encode in your squint?

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Post by irjustin »

analogpixel wrote: post #39

So 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?

> What is the downside to using email?

If true to the post, it lacks "real time". Doom scrolling by nature is while chat is async. Refreshing Gmail constantly is not fun.

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Post by johnnyanmac »

runjake wrote: post #124
analogpixel wrote: post #39

So 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?

> Would an email interface to Claude code work better? No. > What is the downside to using email? Email is clunky and feedback is not immediate. > seems easier then getting a vpn working. Tailscale is easy for a dev to get going and very reliable. The author uses the Termius SSH app with Mosh, so it keeps the same SSH session going across device sleeps and disconnects. Tmux is helpful, too. I do exactly what the auth…

>Email is clunky and feedback is not immediate.

You're vibe coding on a smartphone into an external computer. You already abandoned "Immediate feedback" and "cohesion".

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