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

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Tailscale is a lot of permanent runtime overhead/latency just to avoid setting up dynamic DNS and changing a few lines in the sshd_config.

Do you have recommended reading? I haven't been confident enough that I wouldn't overlook serious security issues opening SSH on my own machines.

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

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It’s a simple idea but one that hadn’t occurred to me yet. I spend hours each week riding transit, and use Claude for a bunch of side projects and have Tailscale set up already, so looks like I’ll be giving this a try this week! Doom coding might be doomed while I’m in the transbay tube though, with awful cell service… How’s the diff review? I rely heavily on the vs code integration for nice side by side diffs, so lo…

https://github.com/dandavison/delta

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

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Number 1 on the front page of Hacker News for explaining how to connect to a remote machine via ssh.

Yeah I feel like I'm missing something here. I'm not sure if people being so dependent on these LLMs generating code is that widespread at this point or if this is some kind of publicity stunt.

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

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> 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".

People have all kinds of bad experiences with tech. The kids write off any thing they didn't invent or adopt as inadequate.

It usually comes from the bad experience or poor exposure.

Its hard to hate on them when it comes from a position of limited exposure.

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

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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?

> So this is the 4th+ article I've seen on using a VPN to vibe code on your phone. and all of them mentions Tailscale. I would not be surprised if we hear in a few days it got next big fund and all of this is just a preparation for it

Tailscale has been a HM darling for a long time, this isn’t very surprising!

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

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I'm using the Android terminal and Claude Code to vibecode on the go. Or rather, as a fairly boring father of two, when I'm tied up in the necessary chores of family life - cooking and cleaning. Nothing as complicated as this - just Claude Code and a fairly standard Linux dev term, but it's remarkable. Over the recent break, across four or five sessions, I wrote a set of prompts around ~500 words in total. The result…

I read the Readme. So this is all just stuff you can do with Claude's cli interface? It edits files and runs utilities? And it does this with few enough errors that you can be productive by just chatting with it over ssh? Is Claude the only one that can do this?

Probably Claude Code and Codex are the currently best ones, Claude Code a bit faster, Codex a lot more precise and "engineering" focused.

As long as you figure out how to verify that the built thing actually does what it's supposed to, ideally with automated tests, it's almost fire-and-forget if you're good at explaining what you want and need.

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

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use blink https://apps.apple.com/nl/app/blink-shell-build-code/id15948...

Or shellfish. [1] [1] https://secureshellfish.app/

Shellfish is underrated. It has a very convenient tmux integration (auto-restore a specific tmux session per host to work around iOS suspending background apps), supports SSH tunneling via other configured hosts, and can be used as an SFTP file provider for other iOS apps. It’s also generally polished and supports the expected standard terminal features.

There’s a few settings I wished were possible, like using volume buttons as modifier keys in Emacs (I’ve heard about this in other apps), but mostly it works fine.

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