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

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Post by abinmn »

I've been using a similar workflow for the past couple of months.Heavily inspired by Simon Willison’s approach of building micro tools, I’ve started building micro-utilities. I do this mostly while I'm commuting or outside or waiting for something at work.

Instead of just jotting down an idea in a notes app (and it sitting there for eternity), I’ll open up Jules, describe the tool, and have it scaffold the HTML. I have Cloudflare Pages hooked up to the repo—once Jules submits the PR, the preview branch builds automatically and I can verify the result on my phone immediately.

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

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Post by dinkumthinkum »

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…

I think the problem you are having is that you are actually thinking clearly and rationally and are not suffering from this incessant brain rot that is the new normal.

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

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Post by mattfrommars »

A random thought has started to occur, maybe given how early we are in LLM tech world, isn’t it strange a lot of AI tech is being built on top of proprietary tech? In this case, it’s Claude Code

And honestly, all this free marketing has me convinced to pay for it

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

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Post by baalimago »

mattfrommars wrote: post #263

A random thought has started to occur, maybe given how early we are in LLM tech world, isn’t it strange a lot of AI tech is being built on top of proprietary tech? In this case, it’s Claude Code And honestly, all this free marketing has me convinced to pay for it

There are many open source alternatives to claude code. Crush[0] is one, Clai[1] another, opencode[3] a third. These are all vendor agnostic, and use API credits from different providers.

[0]: https://github.com/charmbracelet/crush [1]: https://github.com/baalimago/clai [2]: https://github.com/anomalyco/opencode

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

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Post by FooBarWidget »

jcul wrote: post #86
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…

Yeah, even if I'm on a plane or a train I probably wouldn't pull out my laptop. Lack of space, vibrations etc. even though I can do a lot of work offline if the internet is spotty. It's just not enjoyable. I prefer to read or chill out. I kind of envy people who are like oh yeah I coded the feature on the flight... I can't really get in the zone in that environment. Saying that, I assumed this post was a joke. ssh to…

Micro exercises: It's nothing fancy. While walking in the park, watching the kids play, waiting in a queue or in the train or something, when you have a minute to spare, you can do wall push ups, isometrics, leg raises, step jacks, squats, row pull with your jacket against a pole, etc. Exercises that don't require equipment. If you get an exercise band then you can carry it with you (very light and compact) and then there will be more types of exercises you can do. This will raise some looks, but they tend not to be negative, some people even praise me for staying active in unusual contexts.

Another thing I can recommend is Chinese style radio calisthenics (guang bo ti cao, look it up on Youtube, all Chinese people learn it in primary school and do them daily at school). Full body cardio like and stretching exercises that you can do while staying in one place (you just need space around you). Takes 5-10m, better warming up than just walking and swinging arms and covers a lot of basic things. The entire approach seems virtually unknown in the west.

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

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Post by FooBarWidget »

yoz-y wrote: post #29
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.

In between sets!? I've found that if I do any activity in between sets (like watching Twitter) I'll just end up spending way too much and then make the exercise session super long. Also I can't focus and write a serious prompt or review serious results in just or 3 minutes. But maybe it works if the app is sonething you've recently worked on and you already have very clearly in your mind what you want, it just needs to be done.

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

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Post by alansaber »

hmokiguess wrote: post #140

I really want to use and like this, but I feel like I need a different UX / UI for my phone. I think adoption of this development workflow at large is going to be a design challenge more than a setup/devops one.

I agree- I think there is a good opportunity for a more slow-paced, thoughtful UX on mobile.
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