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

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Post by carloscabanero »

kovek wrote: post #173
pmarreck wrote: post #107

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yes but I've never seen a terminal interface embedded in a browser that is as good as a native terminal app interface, and blink shell has been well worth the upfront cost to me (way better than Termius, which was suggested in the writeup)

Is it easy to move the text cursor around in the text input in blink shell?

I usually pair Claude with tmux, so you can move the cursor around the Claude output and copy, scroll, etc. that buffer is definitely the way to go. And within the chat box, Claude respects known eMacs/GNU shortcuts for cursor movement, so I like that more than Copilot.

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

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Post by carloscabanero »

einsteinx2 wrote: post #192
pmarreck wrote: post #100

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You need tmux to be able to resume the same session from anywhere, mosh-server to make ssh resilient to sketchy mobile connections, and blink shell https://blink.sh/ to have a high quality iOS shell with a mosh and ssh client built right in to resume at any time. Far more resilient and performant than a web client.

> and blink shell https://blink.sh/ to have a high quality iOS shell with a mosh and ssh client built right in to resume at any time I really like Termius, have you tried it? I think I tested out Blink when I was trying various SSH/shell apps and chose Termius over it, but it’s been so long now that I completely forget why. EDIT: does Blink give you a local shell as well like vs only SSH/mosh?

Yes, Blink gives you a local shell with some tools (not extendable), including Vim. It is even possible to mount a remote repository (we call it a Bookmark), and edit locally.

Give it another chance if you want to, I’m always happy to help.

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

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Post by carloscabanero »

qaboutthat wrote: post #11
auspiv wrote: post #9

Using this with tmux and various VPN tech. Main issue is scrolling. Termius + tmux don't scroll very well. And I've been led to believe tmux is necessary to keep sessions open when I turn off my phone screen

I had this exact issue. I switched to Blink on iOS which seems inferior to Termius in every way except that scrolling tmux actually works.

I’m the Blink developer and really curious. Which way do you think Blink is inferior? I think the ssh/mosh tooling is way more powerful, keyboard config, etc. But would love to improve what I can. Currently working on new UI and better access to hosts, so it is a good time.

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

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Post by einsteinx2 »

carloscabanero wrote: post #412
einsteinx2 wrote: post #192

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> and blink shell https://blink.sh/ to have a high quality iOS shell with a mosh and ssh client built right in to resume at any time I really like Termius, have you tried it? I think I tested out Blink when I was trying various SSH/shell apps and chose Termius over it, but it’s been so long now that I completely forget why. EDIT: does Blink give you a local shell as well like vs only SSH/mosh?

Yes, Blink gives you a local shell with some tools (not extendable), including Vim. It is even possible to mount a remote repository (we call it a Bookmark), and edit locally. Give it another chance if you want to, I’m always happy to help.

Is Blink’s shell different from something like iSH which gives you a local shell inside an Alpine Linux VM? Is it some kind of native iOS shell or is it also a Linux VM of some kind?

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

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Post by mjqs »

kovek wrote: post #173
pmarreck wrote: post #107

Earlier quoted context omitted.

yes but I've never seen a terminal interface embedded in a browser that is as good as a native terminal app interface, and blink shell has been well worth the upfront cost to me (way better than Termius, which was suggested in the writeup)

Is it easy to move the text cursor around in the text input in blink shell?

It's not. When using Claude Code (or similiar)you get a lot of problems in every shell about flickering, not being able to copy, not being able to move text cursor and so on. It's bad UX

If using TMUX you can "ctrl + b [" to enter copy mode and then you can move cursor as you wish. I wrote about this stuff too on https://mjqs.blog/meta/

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

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Post by durch »

rbergamini27 wrote: post #393
durch wrote: post #197

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Steve Yegge is building awesome things in this space, but I've found them too heavy, started using bd when it was small, but now its trying to do too much IMO, so made a clone, tailored to my use case -> https://github.com/cloud-atlas-ai/ba

durch - just starred this repo! Looking forward to testing it out as I learn how to build with multiple agents. I'm just starting out with building with Claude - after a friend made this post he sent me a Steve Yegge interview ( https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zuJyJP517Uw ). Absolutely loved it. I come from an electrical/nuclear engineering background - Yegge reminds me of the cool senior engineer who's young at heart…

Yegge is an absolute legend, no doubt about that :D

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

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Post by pmarreck »

alentodorov wrote: post #137
pmarreck wrote: post #100

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You need tmux to be able to resume the same session from anywhere, mosh-server to make ssh resilient to sketchy mobile connections, and blink shell https://blink.sh/ to have a high quality iOS shell with a mosh and ssh client built right in to resume at any time. Far more resilient and performant than a web client.

tried tmux but realized claude/gemini/codex's --resume works great and have since started using a single chat for all small work projects

Yes, but you can't leave it running and working on something and then resume from wherever that left off that way from wherever you are.

Or are you saying you can resume a conversation that is still open in another terminal? What happens to the old terminal if you accidentally type into it? Will it overwrite the conversation?

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

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Post by qaboutthat »

carloscabanero wrote: post #413
qaboutthat wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I had this exact issue. I switched to Blink on iOS which seems inferior to Termius in every way except that scrolling tmux actually works.

I’m the Blink developer and really curious. Which way do you think Blink is inferior? I think the ssh/mosh tooling is way more powerful, keyboard config, etc. But would love to improve what I can. Currently working on new UI and better access to hosts, so it is a good time.

Sorry to have missed this. First, props that Blink is indeed superior in that it actually works.

My recollection is that the primary way Termius "feels better" is the pre-terminal UI (configuring hosts, etc).

But I'm still a daily Blink user, so I don't 100% recall what Termius did to make me think it was nicer, I just remember that scrolling was fucked so I gave up on it.

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