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

Post by rbergamini27 » Wed, Jan 07, 2026, 8:41 PM UTC

tracker1 wrote: post #383

igleria wrote: post #332

> Great for parties where you rather be home tinkering. I know this is probably in jest, but when someone invites you to a party it's not because they just want your atoms in the same room as them. In regards to doom coding: I would chop off my arms before coding/prompting on a phone. Also, think about your cervical, neck etc! I feel like I'm taking crazy pills!

I'm with you... just with gesture input as it is, I hate using my phone for much beyond a quick comment or two. I can't imagine trying to do anything technical with a phone's onscreen keyboard. Even through an AI prompt... nope, just nope. At worst, put your ideas into a notes app and then go back to where you are... this is just anti-social and borderline psychotic imo.

Post by Flere-Imsaho » Wed, Jan 07, 2026, 9:09 PM UTC

durch wrote: post #198

Flere-Imsaho wrote: post #144

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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 un…

Post by herewulf » Thu, Jan 08, 2026, 12:27 AM UTC

j45 wrote: post #87

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?

Email is funny - maybe as a backup. Prompting is chatting.

Post by herewulf » Thu, Jan 08, 2026, 1:03 AM UTC

basisword wrote: post #194

epolanski wrote: post #135

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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.

Post by godelski » Thu, Jan 08, 2026, 1:59 AM UTC

jdshaffer wrote: post #349

godelski wrote: post #172

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> I really like this setup because I only have one environment, so everything is there, and I don't have to install anything in the laptop Yeah that's one of my favorite parts. Same about living in the terminal. I can be effective anywhere nearly instantly. I carry everything around in my dotfiles and keep it small (keep the .git folder small and don't add anything except text files)[0]. On that note, one thing I hig…

If you don't mind, I'd like to hear more about your setup. I have a bunch of bash scripts and python programs I've used to make working in the terminal easier (and more fun). Are you saving your dotfiles are a git project and then just syncing and pulling them down from there? I'm not an expert, just a tinkerer, but I like tinkering in the terminal. :) Thanks in advance!

  find "${DOTFILE_DIR%/}/configs/" \
        -maxdepth 1 \
        ! -name "*.md" \
        -exec bash -c 'ln -Fis "${0}" "${CONFIG_DIR%/}/${0##*/}"' {} \;

  function _exists() {
      command -v "$1" &> /dev/null
  }

  alias_ls() {
    alias_lsd() {
        alias ls='lsd'
        alias la='lsd -A' # A drops . and ..
        alias ll='lsd -l' # h is automatic
    }
    alias_base_ls() {
        alias ls='ls -v --color=auto -h' # numerical sort, color, human readable
        alias la='ls -A' # ignore . and ..
        alias ll='ls -lh'
    }
    if ( _exists lsd );
    then
        alias_lsd
    else
        alias_base_ls
    fi
  }
  main() {
    alias_ls || echo -e "\033[1;31mls aliasing fucked up!\033[0m"
  }
  main

  1) debugging gets so much easier
  2) you know where everything is and what everything does. 
  3) trying new aliases, command tools, scripts, etc also becomes a lot easier.