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

#61

If you're on Android and can download QPython, it works just fine and has for years. This seems way overcomplicated, it depends on a remote computer that's on 24/7? Ick.

Sadly I'm an iPhone kid - and yeah the 24/7 computer running is not ideal. It's been nice building on the server that I'm using to host the app, but then again I could just run the Dockerfiles via QPython and push the code via git?

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

#62

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? Make sure you authenticate somehow to prevent external abuse.

then run the mail servers locally?

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

#63

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?

or text messages? Could be more convenient to reply to a text

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

#64

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?

Why not use a browser?

OpenCode has a webUI, you can simply host that on your machine at home and VPN to it.

https://opencode.ai/docs/server/ (sadly no screenshots, but its a pretty good GUI, looks like their desktop app)

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

#65
post #37

We need to take this idea further. Instead of "remote first", I'm waiting for the first company that will bodly declare "you can do all your work on your phone". I'm tired of lugging my laptop around. Let me work from the beach with my phone and ar glasses.

Please hire me when you make this happen! The tinkering started because I wanted to go outside to code but sitting with your laptop in the park is too strange.

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

#66
Historically I had thought there was a pendulum swing between using local computing resources vs. having a dumb terminal to access something remotely.

But now instead of swinging back to local resources, apparently we're proposing to add a second layer of remote access (phone -> computer -> Claude servers).

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

#67

I already doom code! I’ve always found coding a highly addictive activity and struggle to stop when I should. So for me it’s a hard no thanks :-)

This is very relatable - hence keeping "doom" in the moniker. Stay strong my friend

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

#68

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?

I have read of people doing remote coding with clause but through having Claude create pull request. The user then looks through the requests, and either approves or sends it back with edits. Seems like a good way to interact with Claude code, especially once one sets up a test suite and those proposed pull requests have proven not to regress.

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

#69

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?

How about leveraging the git email workflow? hey - Claudio submitted a patchset

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

#70
post #53

> What You'll Need > A Computer running 24/7 with Internet Connection > A Smartphone > A Claude Pro subscription Or.. just install Termux and do it the same way you do it anywhere else?

And what's the recommendation for iOS? Because, as it turns out, the Termux app on the App Store is not the same as the one on the Play Store, just uses the same name.

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