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scottLobster wrote 4 hours 11 min ago:
Maybe I'm just lacking in creativity, but I don't see the appeal of
developing anything with less than 2 monitors and a full-sized
keyboard. Even for those who find the act of coding intrinsically
entertaining, do you want to dance so badly that you'll do so even if
you can only use one leg?
utopiah wrote 4 hours 3 min ago:
I'll bite (even though I think the proposed setup is dumb tbh) : why
do you need 2 monitors? Can't you just alt-tab from one window to
another?
FWIW I do code on the go and I 100% prefer to code at home with my
neat setup... but also quite often when I'm on the move and
inspiration strikes, I do enjoy having a way to tinker right here and
there.
scottLobster wrote 3 hours 34 min ago:
I can, but I find the friction it induces to be extremely
irritating. I have to memorize snippets of documentation before
switching back instead of just having it open on the other monitor
to reference at a glance. Plus the act of switching windows itself
is extra keystrokes/touch gestures and tedium. Coding on a small
touch screen sounds like absolute hell. Like being forced to drive
in stop-and-go traffic with a manual shift.
I'll do it only if I have no other choice (i.e. logged into a
remote terminal-only server at work). If I have some flash of
inspiration I'll write it down in Google Keep and try it out when I
get back to my 3-monitor workstation.
But hey, we're all wired different
thenoblesunfish wrote 4 hours 52 min ago:
Is being able to SSH into your home machine that easy these days? I
never had a strong enough reason to spend more than a few minutes
trying, but I always suspected that my ISP would make this harder for
me than I would hope.
utopiah wrote 4 hours 5 min ago:
That's the whole point of Tailscale or just any VPN really : it
doesn't matter what your ISP says, as long as you can establish a
connection to the outside, the outside can connect back. Tailscale
just makes that easier if you are not familiar with VPN setup.
FWIW typically ISP blocks port related to spamming, so usually they
block ports related to emails, e.g. SMTP, I believe DNS too, but
other ports no problem.
That being said it's quite a silly use case IMHO. If you want to work
on a project from "anywhere" then put your project on your server
accessible from anywhere, that's literally what servers are for and
they cost the price of a coffee per month.
newsoftheday wrote 5 hours 0 min ago:
I see the article is still on the front page, I'd ignored it yesterday
so I took a quick read. I find, being older, trying to read the tiny
fonts on a phone to be difficult after a few minutes, otherwise cool
idea.
Or, I thought it was cool until this passage reminded me, "coded a
prototype in my downtime" that down time is supposed to be down time.
forgotaccount3 wrote 4 hours 40 min ago:
> down time is supposed to be down time.
Life doesn't have down time. Should we avoid learning new things
because no one is paying us to learn?
One of my favorite uses of AI is to quickly make some simple 'hello
world' level application that I can run using a given technology.
Don't know what an MCP server is? Boot up Kiro and tell it you want
to make a sample MCP server and ask it for suggestions on what the
MCP server should do. A relatively short while later, with a lot of
that time being spent letting AI do it's thing, and you can have an
MCP server running on your computer. You have an AI waiting for you
to ask questions about why the MCP server does x y or z or how can
you get the server to do a, b or c etc
As someone who learns a lot better from doing or seeing vs reading
specs, this has been monumentally more efficient than searching the
web for a good blog post explaining the concept.
And when I'm doing these learning exercises, I naturally lean towards
the domain my company is in because it's easier to visualize how a
concept could be implemented into a workflow when I understand the
current pain points of that workflow.
I'm not going home and pulling in story's from my board and working
on them (generally), I'm teaching myself new concepts in a way that
also positions be to contribute better to my employer.
tropicalhunter wrote 5 hours 28 min ago:
I am still trying to understand how installing Tailscale and Claude
Code then connecting to your home network externally and opening a
mobile terminal on your phone is a novel idea that requires a full
Github writeup.
So, I do this when I am sitting on the couch and too lazy to boot up my
laptop that I normally do work on, but it never gets much further than
updating, pulling or pushing one or two containers, or more times than
not trying to remember what port AI have something on so I can connect
the companion app to it.
It's not a bad idea in full, but "death coding" is a ridiculous notion.
a1371 wrote 4 hours 39 min ago:
There is an infamous "Dropbox comment" on HN that reads the same way
as this comment. No idea is new, and novelty is almost never the
point. I had seen people do similar things in the past but never
approached it myself. Here is someone that has done the thinking for
me and put it out there for free. I appreciate that.
pksebben wrote 3 hours 6 min ago:
the comment, for the interested:
URI [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224
daveguy wrote 3 hours 54 min ago:
Yeah, but the OP is more like the "all you have to do is rsync and
cron job". It's an article about the relatively complex step by
step process that people do to implement a functionality. It may be
the inspiration for an analogous dropbox, but definitely not the
dropbox article or post. A product that you could grab from the app
store that does all of this out of the box would be the analogue to
dropbox.
That said, this would be interesting to someone who didn't know
these tools could be stitched together in this way. I think that's
a big part of why it's on the home page.
rbergamini27 wrote 23 min ago:
Y'all I'm as shocked as you are it's on the home page!
I'm new to hacking (come from an electrical/nuclear engineering
background but never did much with software). For reference, just
learned what postgres was 2 months ago.
Took a lot of tinkering to figure out but that's more a skill
rather than complexity issue. Working from a laptop is certainly
better, but was able to get good amount done (like building v1 of
a backend and setting up a cloudflare tunnel for a PC) on a long
bus ride where I would've gotten side eyes for using a laptop.
I'm no doctor but I'll bet "Doom Coding" is still not healthy but
it's better than doom scrolling on X.
Thank you for the comments! I've been learning from these threads
(Like tmux or dropbox article lore)
artdigital wrote 5 hours 19 min ago:
Iâm equally surprised to see these posts pop up everywhere on X,
GitHub and now also HN. Am I that old that SSHing into a server
through a VPN is such a novel concept nowadays?
thenoblesunfish wrote 4 hours 51 min ago:
I think the commonly used platforms, ISPs, etc. make this just
annoying enough that most people really don't know how easy this
should be.
grep_name wrote 5 hours 59 min ago:
I already have a similar setup for developing on remote servers I've
been using with tmux + goose-cli + claude via openrouter. I've found
that anything claude 4.x and above becomes very expensive very quickly,
with 3.7 being almost negligibly inexpensive. I'd find myself using $30
dollars of credits in a few hours of development on a small scope
project. I might give the claude CLI a look specifically, but I don't
expect great savings and I will miss my AI-provider-agnostic setup. Is
everyone using this technology just programming as they go about their
day and burning like fifty to a hundred bucks while doing so?
sylware wrote 6 hours 44 min ago:
Fixed IPv6 workstation, ssh (pre-shared key) and vim, 4G usb modem, a
"big" screen, nice battery life, "code anywhere" on your workstation
(the best would be a "backpack" modular system: a RISC-V board in its
case slapped to a "big" DP/eDP screen on a stand, an usb dvorak
[ortholinear|columnar] keyboard, a 4[5]G usb modem (using the USB modem
standard) with a IPv6 enable mobile ISP sim card, and a rather good
battery pack.
(I even use a webcam to capture what my monitor does display when I do
remote coding of low level GFX oriented software! Actually my wayland
compositor for linux and AMD GPUs)
BTW, IPv6 = ZERO NAT to setup, delicious.
"It's magic".
Havoc wrote 8 hours 8 min ago:
Chromebook maybe but I donât see myself using a phone unless maybe
itâs voice driven. Typing up lots on phones is a pain.
knivets wrote 8 hours 30 min ago:
I have been building a code from phone web app and doogfooding a lot -
URI [1]: https://x.com/knivets/status/2003023386080092235?s=46
lrvick wrote 8 hours 53 min ago:
This makes me worry about the future where I will be unable to hire
anyone that actually knows how to solve novel engineering problems via
programming with a real keyboard on a real computer with their actual
brains.
To be honest it is already starting to feel that way.
334f905d22bc19 wrote 9 hours 7 min ago:
Did I read that right, that you have to have your computer unlocked at
all times?
Yeah what can go wrong when you are travelling and your computer is at
home unlocked lmao?
mattacular wrote 9 hours 10 min ago:
Account created 16 hours ago posting highly dubious AI hype? This user
is almost certainly part of the intense astroturfing campaign likely
financed by Anthropic that has been ongoing for days/weeks now.
igleria wrote 9 hours 35 min ago:
> 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!
tracker1 wrote 3 hours 38 min ago:
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.
rbergamini27 wrote 18 min ago:
Yes to the last two 100% - hence the "doom" in doom coding! I wrote
the post more as a replacement to TikTok scrolling - it feels like
a worse evil, but it's still not healthy.
The UI isn't as good as a laptop but maybe it's all my years of
swiping, liking, and navigating between apps. In a very sad and
concerning way, phone time feels like home.
lrvick wrote 8 hours 46 min ago:
I host weekly friend-of-friend open events where some people show up
most weeks, find a nice comfortable spot to doom scroll in for a
couple hours, maybe take a nap, leave, sit in their car for a bit,
scroll some more, then go home.
I am just hoping they actually took a break from doom scrolling while
driving as then at least I can say I had some non zero positive
impact on their lives.
5 years phone-free and I do not miss it. People use them as security
blankets to avoid having to be present for more than 5 minutes at a
time with other people or even just exist in their own heads. I now
find this behavior immature and gross but avoiding it would mean not
having friends.
A smartphone is like toilet paper. No one wants to watch you use it.
carlgreene wrote 6 hours 3 min ago:
Very curious to hear how you went phone-free and what your setup
looks like
lrvick wrote 5 hours 5 min ago:
I have a mini PC hooked to screens in every room other than the
bedroom and bathroom, and remote controls with built in air-mouse
and keyboard (pepper jobs remotes). This way anyone can pick up a
controller in any room and look something up on a shared communal
screen as needed, which discourages use of private screens.
When I leave home for less than a day I pack no electronics of
any kind and enjoy the peace in my own head to think about the
next problems I want to solve in my universe.
I pay with cash exclusively in public so tap and pay is not an
issue. If I ever need to be reachable for emergencies I can carry
a pager but so far this has not been worth it.
shreddit wrote 4 hours 49 min ago:
Did not expect that: I got rid of a small screen i can carry
around by putting a lot of small screen all over my house.
I put that in the same bin as all the âStop doomscrollingâ
apps. You canât prevent doomscrolling by adding another app
on your phone. Get rid of the phone (and all other screens),
one does not need to be able to look up everything in a moments
notice. Write it down on a paper and do it later.
rjh29 wrote 7 hours 21 min ago:
Get better friends! Not everybody does this.
GuB-42 wrote 7 hours 47 min ago:
Maybe host your event in a cave if you can, no cell coverage, no
Wi-Fi.
There is a bar like that where I go sometimes, it is in a cave,
some people got Wi-Fi from the staff, and you have some reception
if you stand near the front door, but it is mostly a network-free
zone and it is great.
Another thing we did from time to time at the restaurant is to put
all our phones stacked in the middle of the table, anyone who picks
up his phone before the end of the meal for any reason pays the
bill for everyone. So far, no one did.
lrvick wrote 5 hours 0 min ago:
Suddenly the one good use case for lead paint becomes clear.
el_pa_b wrote 9 hours 41 min ago:
I'm using this setup as well, and I've been as far as writing a small
Telegram bot to send input to Claude when it's stopped running via a
Stop Hook
URI [1]: https://github.com/PABannier/claude-telegram-bot
MORPHOICES wrote 9 hours 43 min ago:
How do you avoid doom-coding while learning or experimenting? â Ask
HN
Lately I have observed this algo in myself while learning something
new. I constantly code for very short bursts sometimes on the phone or
laptop at night, keep jumping between tools and end up consuming more
than creating. It comes off as productive but seldom compounds.
A straightforward explanation that has provided me with a helpful point
of thought is.
Make a mode selection.
Did conclusions actually occur?
Most doom-coding sessions are loaded with input, no closure.
There are 2 small changes that improved it for me.
Start sessions with a small, visible output goal (one function, one
note, one commit).
Time-box input aggressively. I stop scrolling after 15-20 minutes of
scrolling.
At the conclusion of every session, I would write what I would do next,
even if I donât do it. ~
Wanting to know how others do this.
Do you intentionally separate learning sessions and building sessions?
Do you have any heuristics to know when you have avoided input?
wickedsight wrote 9 hours 57 min ago:
Does anyone have any good advice or resources on a good workflow to do
this with web apps? There's some stuff I'd really like to solve, for
myself/family, that would require a front and back-end with persistent
storage.
I would love to easily be able to set this up easily when a new idea
pops into my mind and then have something running (locally or securely
in some cloud) within a few hours/days. I wouldn't want to spend a ton
of money for this though, nor have a lot of overhead to manage.
Edit: In addition, I'd like some safeguards where I can't have the LLM
of choice accidentally delete stuff or do other unintended things on my
network.
jimmySixDOF wrote 7 hours 2 min ago:
Replit is $25 a month but the best mobile allinone coding I have
tried so far easy to push to host etc and you can kick off a stage
then just pickup building where you left off anytime the
termius/tmux/tailscale is fine but lot more effort even after you
reach the command line. Horses for courses.
pankajhbk007 wrote 10 hours 6 min ago:
been using the same setup for the past 2-3 months now. My company gave
the employees old mac pro (intel) for free to use for whatever purpose
they want to. I was using AWS for most of my personal projects which I
have now migrated to this mac. I use the app 'Amphetamine' to not let
the mac sleep, and rest of the setups are the same with Tailscale +
termius etc
Fun fact: once you get ssh access to mac, you can control almost
anything running on it. Like I added my mac air under termius, and I
could mute/unmute any videos playing on chrome using osascript from my
iphone :)
punnerud wrote 10 hours 23 min ago:
Been using exactly this setup for a year now, works great.
Have to be on the same WiFi to install from Xcode to iPhone. There is a
âworkaroundâ having it deploy to TestFlight, but itâs slow.
Looking for a way to forward mDNS over VPN, to bad iPhone/Tailscale
donât support it. Only possibility I found is to have a separate
mobile router that support forwarding mDNS.
jclardy wrote 10 hours 15 min ago:
Hmm, you could probably setup ad hoc builds and send them off to
Firebase App Distribution or a similar service and get them a bit
faster. Still pretty cumbersome but it skips the slow signing/slow
uploads/slow processing that Test Flight provides for users.
tobi_bsf wrote 11 hours 4 min ago:
If you need this article to get the idea of using Claude Code from your
phone, you wonât build anything substantial anyway.
9dev wrote 10 hours 20 min ago:
Great! Another shallow dismissal is just what everyone needs right
now! I donât understand this kind of gate keeping.
AI has been changing more rapidly than any other technology I have
encountered in my life. Itâs absolutely nobodyâs fault for not
keeping up with it or arriving late to the party, and telling them
they should rather just stop because they wonât get it anyway is
just awful behaviour.
TofuLover wrote 11 hours 1 min ago:
Why?
x187463 wrote 2 hours 27 min ago:
Because, obviously, you should be spending all of your waking time
thinking about LLMs, agents, and how you can integrate them into
every part of your life. If you have been living properly in the
age of impending-AGI, you would have already been desperately
seeking more opportunities to interact with these systems. That
desperation would have led you to independently discover agents and
all the ways you could couple yourself to them even when away from
your computer. Are you a parent stuck at home experiencing life
with your kids instead of sitting at your desk? Why not escape such
a hellscape by whipping out your phone and building a SaaS from
your phone while your offspring annoys you with requests for
attention and meaningless affection?
---
Really, this whole environment of 'coding from my phone with dozens
of agents while I'm doing the laundry' feels like satire of the
sorts of things we used to laugh at on Linkedin.
integricho wrote 11 hours 12 min ago:
Calling "telling the LLM what to do" coding is dishonest, and I have no
respect for any of this.
immibis wrote 11 hours 46 min ago:
Vibe coding is not coding (unless by vibe-coding you meant buttplug.io)
system2 wrote 12 hours 6 min ago:
Can't we do the same with an SSH client such as Termius?
pjmlp wrote 12 hours 10 min ago:
Just install proper development tools on the device, some examples from
my setup,
- Pydroid
- C# Shell .NET IDE
- Pascal N-IDE
- Shader Editor
voidUpdate wrote 12 hours 28 min ago:
What does Claude add to this? I've done coding on my phone before by
sshing into my home server and just... writing code. Is there a benefit
to writing code through a third party instead?
cdrini wrote 7 hours 57 min ago:
Programming on a phone is a tough sell for many since typing is
slower and you have less screen real estate to view/debug the code.
Using an AI agent and typing only prompts makes it more compelling.
You input less, and only occasionally have to edit code instead of
writing everything from 0. And even with editing, typing a prompt
like "separate the X logic from class Y into a new file/class" is
much faster on mobile than the equivalent actions.
kreddor wrote 9 hours 6 min ago:
I'm just as baffled. I went to the comments to better understand but
I still don't get it.
I've coded on my phone on several occasions. If you use Android, you
don't even need a server or a home computer since Termux works really
well as it is. It can run node.js and a bunch of other development
tools easily. Or you can just ssh into a server with a development
environment and do your stuff their (AI or not).
voidUpdate wrote 8 hours 21 min ago:
Yeah, I use Termux a decent amount, whether it's just updating my
todo list on my home server or actually programming on it. I feel
like this is just aimed at the people who want to code entire
projects with LLMs, cost be damned
artpar wrote 12 hours 29 min ago:
I did show hn just yesterday
you don't need tailscale or any 3rd party server. Just use webrtc and
it's just your mobile and laptop. end 2 end encrypted. no 3rd party
dependency.
URI [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46514587
purrcat259 wrote 13 hours 2 min ago:
If you don't want to run your machine 24/7 (whether for electrical
consumption, environmental, noise, etc reasons), I wrote an ssh proxy
[1] that will send WOL packets to a target machine and hold your
connection until its alive.
I then configured debian-autoshutdown [2] to turn the machine off if
there's no traffic on ssh after 15 minutes.
This way I just ssh into my machine (whether via antigravity on my
laptop or termius on my phone) and within 30 or so seconds its awake,
no physical button presses needed. I documented the whole flow in more
detail on my blog [3].
I'm now working on an improvement called machine on proxy (or mop) that
will allow me to start Proxmox VMs instead of physical machines, so I
can let gemini-cli run wild and if it decides to wipe the entire hard
drive I can restore from a snapshot. [1] [2]
URI [1]: https://github.com/simonamdev/ssh-wol-proxy
URI [2]: https://github.com/mnul/debian-autoshutdown
URI [3]: https://www.simonam.dev/ssh-wol-proxy/
fittingopposite wrote 2 hours 3 min ago:
Can you do the same to remotely wake up my MacBook on demand via WoL
and ssh into it from my phone? What are the security risks?
purrcat259 wrote 30 min ago:
I don't think WOL works over Wi-Fi and whether you can get WOL from
a USB ethernet adapter.
My proxy doesn't attempt to handle security. Most folks use either
Tailscale or some other VPN solution. In my case I use the
wireguard server in my router to VPN into home which gives me
access to the proxy and consequently to the machine.
exographicskip wrote 3 hours 21 min ago:
I run a lot of small form factor (SFF) machines including NUCs,
Minisforums, and a Mac Studio.
At idle, they aren't loud or consuming much electricity compared to
sleep/shutdown.
Fruit co devices in particular are extremely efficient; the Studio is
rated at 6W idle, 145W max consumption (cf. [1] )
URI [1]: https://support.apple.com/en-us/102027
LeonM wrote 11 hours 16 min ago:
I do the same. I can SSH into my router at home (which is on 24/7),
then issue a WOL request to my dev machine to turn it on.
You don't even have to fully shut down you dev machine, you can allow
it to go into stand-by. For that it needs to be wired by cable to
LAN, and configured to leave the NIC powered on on stand-by. You can
then wake up the device remotely via a WOL magic packet. Maybe this
is possible with WLAN too, but I have never tried.
Also, you don't need a Tailscale or other VPN account. You can just
use SSH + tunneling, or enable a VPN on your router (and usually
enjoy hardware acceleration too!). I happen to have a static IP at
home, but you can use a dynamic DNS client on your router to achieve
the same effect.
mikojan wrote 13 hours 4 min ago:
Why Tailscale instead of plain wireguard?
4k93n2 wrote 11 hours 27 min ago:
probably because you just install it, then you log in and youre done.
tailscale takes care of the rest. going through any more effort just
so you can write some slop code is probably not worth it
rcarmo wrote 13 hours 23 min ago:
I have been doing this with toad and opencode and it is great for those
unprompted ideas that pop up while in the big blue room, but not really
useful for large projects.
worldsayshi wrote 13 hours 1 min ago:
Yeah but I wonder if there's a structure that can be used to make it
useful for larger side projects.
rcarmo wrote 7 hours 27 min ago:
Thatâs where VS Code has helped me the most, it provides a lot
more model guidance than people realize.
kalmyk wrote 13 hours 30 min ago:
is termius free, I was wondering if there is a free open source ios
terminal
kaiwenwang wrote 14 hours 53 min ago:
Why not Claude Code on web/cloud linked to your GH repo?
mattfrommars wrote 14 hours 55 min ago:
A random thought has started to occur, maybe given how early we are in
LLM tech world, isnât it strange a lot of AI tech is being built on
top of proprietary tech? In this case, itâs Claude Code
And honestly, all this free marketing has me convinced to pay for it
baalimago wrote 14 hours 44 min ago:
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]: [1]: [2]:
URI [1]: https://github.com/charmbracelet/crush
URI [2]: https://github.com/baalimago/clai
URI [3]: https://github.com/anomalyco/opencode
abinmn wrote 15 hours 8 min ago:
I've been using a similar workflow for the past couple of
months.Heavily inspired by Simon Willisonâs approach of building
micro tools, Iâve 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), Iâll open up Jules, describe the tool, and have
it scaffold the HTML. I have Cloudflare Pages hooked up to the
repoâonce Jules submits the PR, the preview branch builds
automatically and I can verify the result on my phone immediately.
simonmales wrote 12 hours 48 min ago:
Whats the cycle time here? This work flow makes sense to me.
abinmn wrote 8 hours 16 min ago:
Itâs largely asynchronous for me. I'll trigger the generation and
come back to the PR whenever I'm free.
I'd say the cycle time largely depends on the complexity of the
tools you are building. I've built a movie shelf hooking up with
trakt.tv under 30 minutes and a mermaidJS diagram editor spanning
multiple sessions and couple of days.
Teknomadix wrote 16 hours 9 min ago:
This is cute.
My personal world changed when I discovered Nix On Droid and cloned my
personal Claude Code flake which uses pnpm to keep a rolling bleeding
edge version with revision controlled dots. I started using Nvim
/avante and open router shortly after that, also via Nix on Droid.
Game changer for those long subway rides.
mintflow wrote 16 hours 11 min ago:
Tailscale is quite handy in remote agent coding, Sometimes I use
tailscale and RustDesk on my phone to check Claude code, I also built
an app called NovaAccess which bake tailscale into the app which does
not confict of VPN I used.
andsmi2 wrote 16 hours 28 min ago:
Cursor--run in cloud seems to work just fine for this. I setup my
project and then github to publish web or mobile app.... i believe
claude can also take instructions from github...or am i missing
something.
r2ob wrote 16 hours 47 min ago:
just don't
AIandAPIs wrote 16 hours 53 min ago:
doom coding
treavorpasan wrote 16 hours 53 min ago:
Why do you ever want to code while you are running? I run to getaway
from daily grind to smell the fresh air.
someguyiguess wrote 17 hours 2 min ago:
Iâm wary of enabling ssh/remote login. It seems like it could be an
attack vector.
october8140 wrote 17 hours 3 min ago:
I like to "doom read" books.
ec109685 wrote 17 hours 13 min ago:
I use Prompt, Ever Terminal, Whisper, EC2 and Claude Code.
I can build anything with it. Having Claude on top of a terraform repo
lets me fully control my infra. Claude is so good at AWS and terraform,
and it even found a $3k monthly accidental spend I had running (also
sent a refund request to hopefully get some credit back).
Also have a Claude driven CI workflow in GitHub to help keep everything
on track.
Having full access to the Claude Code TUI is so much better than the
web or iOS interface, plus everything runs on your own setup.
And agree it has replaced doom scrolling / useless new reading.
vivzkestrel wrote 17 hours 29 min ago:
"2. Make sure your computer is ON and UNLOCKED
When disconnecting/reconnecting power, make sure you unlock the
computer. I've ran into this issue one too many times."
- this is the biggest problem that needs to be solved
- i dont want to keep my computer running 24x7 wasting power for stuff
like this
- why not make a robotic arm that you keep at the computer table which
can use open cv to plug the computer on when required?
billyjobob wrote 16 hours 57 min ago:
Lookup "wake-on-lan".
duskdozer wrote 12 hours 34 min ago:
I'm not sure why I'm having so much difficulty with it, but I've
never been able to get this to work on my machines despite my
searching.
zamadatix wrote 17 hours 33 min ago:
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.
duskdozer wrote 12 hours 31 min ago:
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.
saadn92 wrote 17 hours 36 min ago:
Yeah I just built www.makerkit.io for the exact same thing
zuhayeer wrote 17 hours 40 min ago:
This is awesome! But I don't think you need to say never to all those
display settings. You just need to go to Battery -> Options, and
"Prevent automatic sleeping on power adapter when the display is off",
and wake for network access when on power adapter.
erelong wrote 17 hours 49 min ago:
ollama runs locally in termux preferably on proot-distro (with less
"coding power")
garyfirestorm wrote 18 hours 1 min ago:
Guys hear me out. If you ssh into your raspberry pi or any PC you could
open console and run nano text.md file. Then you can manage your todo
list from any device remotely. Stop doom scrolling and start disrupting
todo subscription services. /s
borisandcrispin wrote 18 hours 33 min ago:
I just use Happy
URI [1]: https://happy.engineering/
zhoujianfu wrote 18 hours 54 min ago:
I made something very similar for myself and now have decided to open
it up to others if you want to help me beta test.. free for all and it
sets you up with your own hetzner vps and you even share my claude code
max account: clodhost.com
darepublic wrote 18 hours 58 min ago:
I might just be old fashioned but in a party with a couple of drinks in
me I don't trust my ability to even vibe code well.
handfuloflight wrote 18 hours 36 min ago:
Just keep your eyes on the pretty CI/CD lights.
biinjo wrote 19 hours 10 min ago:
I donât get it. How is this different from using the Claude iOS (and
I assume Android) native app and use their âCodeâ option. It fires
up a Claude Code session in the cloud and you can vibe code anything
while on the toilet.
ec109685 wrote 17 hours 24 min ago:
Claude iOS is way worse. You donât get the full tui.
fassssst wrote 18 hours 8 min ago:
DIY culture I guess, but yea both Claude and Codex have native phone
apps that run the agent on a cloud VM and can push PRs.
victorymakes wrote 19 hours 29 min ago:
This looks neat.
How do you handle code verification in this workflow, especially if you
want to be confident about what actually ran?
elemdos wrote 20 hours 55 min ago:
Being able to âcodeâ from your phone really feels like a huge
change; it never took before because coding from your phone was
miserable, but if youâre just coding by having a conversation then it
might even be better to do it from your phone. I donât know what that
leads to, but itâs let me fix bugs from bed and build an MVP while
moving, so I canât complain.
For anyone looking for a more integrated and smaller approach, I built
an open source app builder + runtime: [1] Basically gives you a
Lovable-like app builder with built-in services
(database/files/auth/email/payments/etc), content and design fields,
and a code editor. Code is a single Svelte 5 file, and you can
build/host unlimited apps on one server. And the server is just node +
PocketBase, so runs easy on a $2 VPS. And LLM is BYOKey.
URI [1]: https://github.com/tinykit-studio/tinykit
4k93n2 wrote 11 hours 56 min ago:
i switched to using neovim a year ago and oddly enough its actually a
lot easier to write code in termux compared to any of the other
android IDE type apps. they all have drop down menus or sidebars that
are quite awkward to use, especially when the keyboard is already
taking up half the screen, but with neovim (or vim) youre using the
keyboard to do most things anyway, so the keyboard can just stay open
all of the time and you never need to move your hand up to the actual
app part. selecting text is way easier than android's implementation
as well
insane_dreamer wrote 19 hours 43 min ago:
Typing on the phone is terrible. Could work with good speech to text
though
sschueller wrote 10 hours 44 min ago:
Back 15-20 years ago we had many phones with keyboards. They had a
purpose but Apple's profits made everyone envious and they started
to copy what the leader was doing even thought for some users a
keyboard make much more sense.
What make sense for all users would be a swap-able battery.
Water-tightness is no longer and excuse with new phones likes
foldables that aren't. Fun fact, Apple dumped the swap-able battery
before the iPhone was waterproof.
shepherdjerred wrote 20 hours 55 min ago:
I've been working on something similar: [1] Essentially you run a
server on some machine. Sessions are created in Docker containers, K8s
pods, or via Zellij (an app similar to tmux).
You can:
- Directly attach to sessions via Docker attach (built-in via a TUI).
You get a normal Claude Code experience, but multiplexed. The
switcher/UI shows you the status of Claude and the PR (pushed, merge
conflicts, CI status, review status, etc.)
- Manage sessions via a web UI. Connect to Claude Code directly via
your browser. You have access to the usual Claude Code terminal or a
native chat view.
- Manage sessions via an app. You have access to a native chat view.
It achieves isolation via Git worktrees + a proxy so that containers
have access to zero credentials (there aren't even any Claude code
creds in the container), which allows you to more safely use bypass all
permissions mode.
This works better for me that Claude Code on Web because I have control
over the environment Claude is running in. I can give it any Docker
image I want, I can have it connect to my local network, etc.
It's still a WIP (the core bits are there, but it's not polished yet),
but I'm hoping it provides a friendlier UX with a similar goal for what
the OP has in mind.
URI [1]: https://github.com/shepherdjerred/monorepo/tree/main/packages/...
LeicaLatte wrote 21 hours 5 min ago:
My setup is very similar.
After you log in you can unlock keychain by running this command
âsecurity unlock-keychainâ
knowsuchagency wrote 21 hours 7 min ago:
I love this! This concept on steroids is one of the main reasons I made
[1] after trying both happy.engineering and Vibe Kanban for remote
coding. There's the claude mobile app, too, but I want to run Claude on
my own hardware in a terminal
URI [1]: https://github.com/knowsuchagency/vibora
999900000999 wrote 21 hours 13 min ago:
My flow is GitHub issues+ GitHub Copilot+ Web Deployments from GitHub
actions.
I can just ask GitHub to fix something from the mobile app, and then
set it to build on PR merge. It works most of the time, but you'd have
to be absolutely wacky to do it in production or with any code you
actually care about
kovek wrote 21 hours 14 min ago:
I recommend [1] . It is very easy to set up. I can have an instance in
a container which contains my repository and lots of packages/binaries
necessary for the work. I can then use the different binaries to run
commands in the container. I was able to easily do `ls -la` in the
container and email that to myself, all done from my phone. You can
also connect it to applescript and whatnot in order to send sms
messages, or you can connect to whatsapp. I was able to make it extract
the top 5 headlines on hacker news, get the top ideas being discussed
in the comments for each submission, and send all of that into my Apple
Reminders for me to read on my phone.
No VPN needed.
URI [1]: https://happy.engineering/
kovek wrote 21 hours 4 min ago:
I'm looking at Opencode and it might be better because it allows you
to abort a task. VPN needed.
mands wrote 21 hours 23 min ago:
I've seen this concept a few times recently and am interested.
However, what's the benefit over just using the "Claude Code for Web"
feature built into the Claude Code mobile app?
It clones your repo into a VM which has a bunch of dev tools installed,
you can install additional packages, set env vars, and then prompt it
remotely. The sessions can be continued from the web and desktop apps,
and it can even be "teleported" into the terminal app when back at a
laptop/desktop.
Would be great to understand what the differences / advantages of OP
approach are.
ec109685 wrote 17 hours 19 min ago:
The Claude code tui is so nice. The web and iOS apps neuter it
weirdly.
elemdos wrote 20 hours 42 min ago:
I feel like thereâs something special about connecting to a server
to build and deploying on the same server. Claude Code on the web
lets you connect to a repo, test the code, and deploy it, but then
you have to host the app and data somewhere else to take it live. IMO
the ideal is doing everything in one place and it seems like a lot of
dev tools are going in that direction too (v0, val town, deno
deploy).
not_ai wrote 20 hours 53 min ago:
Iâve only used web codex version but everything about it was slower
than whatâs described here, broken flows, more rate limited and
impossible to âhuman in the loopâ before a PR.
kator wrote 21 hours 25 min ago:
I use Terminus with Zellij and keep about 8 sessions going with a
combination of Claude and Codex, and once in a while, Gemini. It's
great when you're sitting in a docotor's office lobby bored out of your
skull and when you get back to your desk you just join the session and
it's all right there.
qazplm17 wrote 21 hours 28 min ago:
I have similar setup, one thing to add is map action button to a
shortcut for dictate to clipboard since you canât dictate directly
into termius.
pqdbr wrote 8 hours 59 min ago:
Could you please share more? I can't make dictation work.
koinedad wrote 21 hours 33 min ago:
Iâve thought about this many times, maybe with a custom telegram bot!
not_ai wrote 21 hours 57 min ago:
This can be done not just with Claude but also with codex and gemeni
cli. Well technically anything that has a cli interface.
I run both gemeni (fee) and codex (paid), with tmux thrown in to switch
between phone and laptop. Laptop runs vscode with ssh to my server but
I could also use the web version of vscode.
magospietato wrote 22 hours 19 min ago:
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 was Claude scanning my network for active ports using nmap,
fuzzing those ports with cURL, documenting its findings, self-directing
web searches for API/SDK docs for my Hue bridge and ancient Samsung TV,
then building a set of scripts to control my lighting system and a
fully functional HTML+JS remote for my TV.
The most entertaining part was Claude prompting _me_ to pop into the
living room and press the button on the Hue bridge so it could fetch an
API key.
The most valuable part? The understanding I gained secondary to
generative act. I now understand the button on a Hue bridge literally
just tells the device to issue a new API key at the next request. I
understand how Entertainment mode works, and why. I understand how
Samsung SmartThings is mediated via websockets - and just how insecure
decade old Samsung TVs are.
Around 500 words to gain all this? I hate to buy into the hype, but it
feels inflectional.
wickedsight wrote 9 hours 53 min ago:
How did you make sure Claude wasn't doing anything unintended while
allowing it to run scripts it wrote on your network?
magospietato wrote 8 hours 45 min ago:
I still manually approve tool use requests at the start of a run.
As it gets deeper in I might allow it to run safer commands without
that oversight (e.g. writing to local text files), but potentially
destructive execution still requires approval.
As for the local env, I'm treating the Android terminal as a
sandbox. Anything gets trashed I just reset and reinstall my
toolchain.
I won't pretend I'd use this workflow for anything high-stakes. But
for simple things like "I wonder how my Hue lights actually work?",
its viable.
gregoriol wrote 9 hours 47 min ago:
Run it inside a VM, make snapshots of the VM if needed (or use
vagrant/ansible to rebuild), commit regularly, ...
wickedsight wrote 8 hours 44 min ago:
The VM still needs access to the network for the use cases they
described though.
isolli wrote 9 hours 16 min ago:
That seems incompatible with the parallel tasks of cleaning and
cooking (at least for me, especially with kids around).
gregoriol wrote 8 hours 16 min ago:
The VM is setup once, before you get to be "on the go": that's
your development environment, you need one anyway
safety1st wrote 12 hours 54 min ago:
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?
magospietato wrote 11 hours 20 min ago:
Possibly Codex, but I've only used Claude Code so far.
Worth pointing out I'm not SSHing to a different device. Claude
Code installed and running directly in Android terminal on my
phone.
I've built ASP.NET Core APIs on-device this way. Install dotnet in
the terminal and Claude can write code, build, run unit tests, and
even run the API on localhost. Then use `git` and `gh` to commit,
push and raise a PR.
embedding-shape wrote 12 hours 17 min ago:
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.
opan wrote 22 hours 47 min ago:
I was expecting this to be about using Termux or similar. Why are LLMs
involved here?
hmokiguess wrote 22 hours 58 min ago:
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.
alansaber wrote 14 hours 10 min ago:
I agree- I think there is a good opportunity for a more slow-paced,
thoughtful UX on mobile.
japhib wrote 22 hours 59 min ago:
Btw this is basically Replit's entire product (replit.com). Costs some
money but the UX is pretty good
croes wrote 23 hours 15 min ago:
If you donât write a single line of code thatâs not coding.
Otherwise my customers are coders to. they to the same. The difference
is the recipient of the order
spacecadet wrote 23 hours 16 min ago:
I built my AI dungeon master game and play it using my phone,
Tailscale, and an app called Termius.
URI [1]: https://github.com/derekburgess/dungen
henearkr wrote 23 hours 20 min ago:
I was coding a lot many years ago with a Nokia N900.
The loss of the physical keyboard ruined everything for me. I really
need the sense of touch.
tdeck wrote 17 hours 37 min ago:
Similarly I used to write Python on my Motorola Droid with the
slide-out keyboard. But my touchscreen typing style these days relies
heavily on auto-correct and trying to enter code is a real exercise
in frustration.
Sjeiti wrote 23 hours 23 min ago:
Ä°'ve been using Termux (and Vim) to code on my phone for years, way
easier than this setup.
dminor wrote 23 hours 34 min ago:
If you have GitHub copilot you can create github issues and assign them
to copilot. All you need is a browser.
hayksaakian wrote 23 hours 44 min ago:
claude.ai + vercel and you can do it all without anything but your
phone
their web interface lets you use Claude code and push changes to a
GitHub repository
vercel can auto build from a GitHub repo
even less setup and infrastructure needed
adhamsalama wrote 23 hours 44 min ago:
I run Claude Code on my phone itself via Termux.
phplovesong wrote 23 hours 45 min ago:
Vibe coding is such a bad word. It should be called prompting. Thats
all it really is. Its like calling a point and click UI programming
setopt wrote 12 hours 9 min ago:
I feel it depends whether you inspect and edit the code as part of
the workflow, or just test what the AI produced and give feedback
without participating in the coding yourself.
phplovesong wrote 7 hours 31 min ago:
Most of the slop i witness is the latter. This is evident in huge
multi 10K pull requests. The code is just an artifact, while the
prompting is the "new" coding.
japoneris wrote 23 hours 48 min ago:
Very related to [1] ?
URI [1]: https://granda.org/en/2026/01/02/claude-code-on-the-go/
sp9k wrote 23 hours 58 min ago:
Early on in my programming life, I had very limited access to a
computer. I did much of my coding in my head while walking around. In
some cases, I'd literally write code in my head and dump it out when I
had computer access, but abstract and creative problem solving were
especially natural in a detached setting. I truly believe this time
was more valuable than the time at the keyboard.
If anything, I want to do more of that: get away from the device to let
my mind wander. "Doom" coding sounds apt.
crawshaw wrote 1 day ago:
I am a huge fan of driving agents from my phone, though this is one of
the places where I donât think terminal UIs work. Agents need a web
UI for phones.
twism wrote 1 day ago:
I use a bespoke hacker software keyboard (ctrl/meta/custom keys for GNU
screen and emacs) and also bespoke SSH client (fork of the original
irssiconnectbot) for years.
My phone is the original Pixel Fold. You would think I use it unfolded
but the passport form factor lends itself to be almost as productive
folded that I use it that way most of the time. Unfolded it's just a
bit better experience (bigger keys / more display real estate/ more
characters per line/ etc).
With that said I'm looking forward to the Click Communicator: [1] I've
also been meaning to write about my setup and open sourcing my tools.
Oh. Writing clojure helps due to the terseness of the language. Not
sure it would be a pleasant experience writing something like Java with
the 80 character line limit I try to impose on myself
URI [1]: https://clicks.tech/communicator
blauditore wrote 1 day ago:
So, we've spent ages, blood, and tears building better UIs than text,
and now with AI everyone is suddenly expected to type instructions on
the phone? Yes, I realize this is hard to avoid for coding in
particular, but generally I'm tired of typing text on my phone. And no,
I don't want to talk to it either.
handfuloflight wrote 18 hours 29 min ago:
How much information can you encode in your squint?
pmarreck wrote 1 day ago:
this is literally my setup and it is a game-changer:
tailscale, tmux, codex/claude code, mosh, blink shell (iOS)
URI [1]: https://blink.sh/
firasan wrote 23 hours 50 min ago:
Curious if you are directly running mosh on macOS. Last I checked, it
was broken on macOS Tahoe, so I have been relying on tmux for
surviving flaky ssh connections.
pmarreck wrote 23 hours 44 min ago:
i use both tmux and mosh-server
i install them via nix-darwin (I've abandoned homebrew)
i am on Tahoe latest beta
foobarqux wrote 1 day ago:
Number 1 on the front page of Hacker News for explaining how to connect
to a remote machine via ssh.
duskdozer wrote 12 hours 28 min ago:
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.
krupan wrote 1 day ago:
I too am dumfounded by this. Is it an off day? Have all the people
that actually know how to do things with computers gone somewhere
else? What is going on here?
dinkumthinkum wrote 15 hours 10 min ago:
It's all AI hype bro sycophants for the most part now. Oh, well.
parliament32 wrote 1 day ago:
> A Claude Pro subscription
"Doom Slopping" might be more fitting.
rbergamini27 wrote 1 day ago:
Exactly
zahlman wrote 1 day ago:
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).
phendrenad2 wrote 13 hours 15 min ago:
Maybe in the future we'll all have a "hub" in our homes that contains
our data, but we'll shell out to the local datacenter for AI compute,
while our actual interface will be a VR headset or tablet located
with us, anywhere in the world.
godelski wrote 22 hours 58 min ago:
In the last 5 years I pretty much fully migrated to my laptop being a
terminal for other machines. I more use it like a local machine in
HPC: web browsing, word processing, scripting. Anything serious is
done remotely. But I also live in the terminal and so realistically
what's the difference? 99% of the time the result is that I get to
use a "big" computer without having to carry it around.
FWIW, I'm not a big fan of AI coding. I use AI (including LLMs) and I
am an AI researcher, but the vibe coding just hasn't clicked despite
constant efforts. I guess it can make more sense to do it if you're
programming from your phone because while normally typing isn't the
bottleneck it definitely is on the phone (or at least far less
comfortable)
wolfgang000 wrote 22 hours 11 min ago:
Same setup as mine, I have an OpenVPN server running in my router,
and my main PC has wake-on-lan and a KVM as a backup to turn it on
and off.
I have an old used Dell Latitude that I use as a pseudo thin
client. I ssh into my PC, and everything just works.
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
godelski wrote 21 hours 22 min ago:
> 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 highly recommend to people is to add
some visual clues to tell you which machine you're on. I use
starship and have a few indicators but I also have some PS1
exports that I've used in the past or use in new tmp instances (I
HIGHLY recommend also doing this for when you're using the root
account). It can get confusing when you have different tabs on
different machines and it is easy to mistake which one you're on.
[0] I also recommend keeping notes there if you like writing in
markdown. Files are so tiny that it's worth having them. It's
benefited me more times than I can count.
jdshaffer wrote 8 hours 12 min ago:
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!
zahlman wrote 22 hours 37 min ago:
My desktop is 11 years old, but I still feel like it does so much
that I wouldn't want any cloud services except for AI. (And there's
no way this thing would handle a useful local model, but I'm also
really not very enthused about the kind of data sharing involved in
remote AI use.)
godelski wrote 22 hours 29 min ago:
I mean the power of the work machine really depends on what your
needs are. Definitely should adapt to whatever your needs are.
> And there's no way this thing would handle a useful local
model
So if you have a setup like mine then it is fairly trivial to
incorporate that (or anything else). Either way you'll need a
machine that can do the local AI though. Either that is on your
"work machine" or you run the AI on a separate machine. You could
even rent a machine and as long as you add it to your Tailscale
network then you're connected.
I strongly suggest having a workhorse machine and then let other
devices be your terminal into it. Your terminals can be very
cheap (or an old machine) or as suggested, your phone.
zahlman wrote 21 hours 49 min ago:
I appreciate the thought, but advice like this is completely
irrelevant to my current circumstances (and personal
principles) and would be very expensive (respectively,
emotionally unpleasant) to implement.
godelski wrote 21 hours 29 min ago:
Just trying to help given that you responded. I'm happy to
help you find solutions but the constraints might be too
much, unfortunately. If you don't have a machine that can run
local AI and don't have the funds to buy one then frankly it
just isn't in the cards. But hey, if you don't want to use AI
or at least willing to use non-local then the setup probably
doesn't require you to spend a dime.
zahlman wrote 5 hours 13 min ago:
(I wasn't looking for a solution, just giving my
perspective.)
bonesss wrote 23 hours 21 min ago:
Hey, come on, it could be better: you could have hundreds of
employees venting directly to chat logs held by Microsoft detailing
all your internal politics, planning, customer acquisition
strategies, code, integrations desires, excel sheets, emails, and
projects.
Nothing could possibly go wrong, those guys are always 100%
trustworthy and reliable, contracts and NDAs with them are ironclad
and easily enforceable⦠⦠o_o
LTL_FTC wrote 1 day ago:
"Even code at the club!" haha if you're coding at the club, just go
home! but also, I really wish Sony still made their micro Vaio laptops
(Sony Vaio P, for instance).
jimt1234 wrote 23 hours 15 min ago:
"Even code at the club!" ... Great idea for my next rap song! LOL
rbergamini27 wrote 1 day ago:
That phone was taken 5 minutes before departure lol - a micro laptop
sounds sweet!
skybrian wrote 1 day ago:
I'm using exe.dev for something like this. Well, from a laptop, but
others have done it from their phone.
I'd link to a blog post about my setup, but I'm still writing it.
Here's someone else's blog post:
URI [1]: https://commaok.xyz/ai/just-in-time-software/
hambes wrote 1 day ago:
Why would I need claude code for remote programming, if I could just
use ssh and tmux?
sabareesh wrote 1 day ago:
I am looking for some open source terminal for iphone .I have code
server running which i can just use terminal from vs code on safari
analogpixel wrote 1 day ago:
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?
strobe wrote 5 hours 29 min ago:
it looks like some kind marketing push or 'growth hack', just to get
some viral thing around which justify why do you extra reason to pay
for Claude or Tailscale subscription.
I personally not even convinced that Claude Code any better on
average than something like Aider+Gemini 3 or other good model. May
be in some specific cases it actually better but in those
Aider+'Antropic Model via API' most likely will work too.
josefresco wrote 6 hours 5 min ago:
Claude Code recommended a Telegram bot over email for this very
workflow. I've configured my basement RPi to use my "spare tokens"
during off hours. At 5PM it messages me to ask if I want the agent
to work this evening. If there's no task in the queue I can add one
then using the bot. There's also a set of commands to check on
status etc. I'm working on the next step to make it a more automated
and if there's no specific task, it will create it's own.
gitaarik wrote 7 hours 28 min ago:
No syntax highlighting, I do like to review snippets of code. Also
the interactive questions / answers during planning would be a pain
over email. And what about text wrapping? Headache.
Edit: also setting up an email interface API to Claude Code seems
like a lot more work than just setting up a VPN.
PurpleRamen wrote 9 hours 18 min ago:
So basically back to the chat-interface. You could also replace
e-mail with WhatsApp, Telegram, Slack, Mattermost or whichever you
prefer, it would be all the same.
larodi wrote 11 hours 32 min ago:
Claude Code does a very decent UI, somehow the text mode is much more
attractive. As if there is once in a lifetime opportunity to make the
console great again.
bartread wrote 12 hours 52 min ago:
> Would an email interface to Claude code work better?
This might be the most "when your only tool is a hammer all your
problems look like nails" suggestion I've ever read.
Email driven automation isn't a terrible solution to everything - it
works very well for support tickets, for example - but it's really
lacking in the immediacy required from a serious software development
environment.
I'll go further: I think coding on my phone is a fun, neat, idea, and
an interesting curiosity, but I don't actually want to do it. There
are few situations where I'd feel comfortable getting my phone out to
code where I don't also have my laptop with me, and that's going to
provide a way better software development experience, so I'm always
going to use that for anything serious.
Garlef wrote 12 hours 6 min ago:
My thoughts went into a different direction: "Maybe I should buy a
small tablet so that I can read code properly without carrying a
full laptop?"
(Sure, there might be small laptops of similar dimensions ... But
as the name "laptop" suggests these are made for a different UX...
and they require more effort to turn on/off)
kkarpkkarp wrote 13 hours 8 min ago:
> 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
rmoriz wrote 10 hours 23 min ago:
a fully open source alternative would be netbird, it's based on
wireguard as well, has 0 closed components but lacks some features
(like IPv6 or internal CA).
URI [1]: https://github.com/netbirdio/netbird
djmips wrote 11 hours 35 min ago:
I did this on my own without reading any of these articles - I
already had a terminal program on my Android phone and was already
using Tailscale for shared projects in Ghidra so... Maybe it's just
a path of least resistance.
Tepix wrote 11 hours 46 min ago:
Right. For a simple setup I think using plain boring Wireguard is
the better option. Boring is good.
maccard wrote 12 hours 28 min ago:
Tailscale has been a HM darling for a long time, this isnât very
surprising!
someguyiguess wrote 17 hours 0 min ago:
If setting up a VPN is that difficult for you you may have bigger
problems my friend. (I joke). But really I am surprised that a VPN is
the part you take issue with.
latentsea wrote 17 hours 45 min ago:
You don't need a VPN to vibe code on your phone. I've been happily
doing thumb-driven development for the last 4 months now using GitHub
Copilot on github.com from my phone. It even has real-time chat with
copilot as it works. Having your PRs deploy to an environment allows
you to check it. I also have playwright tests that record screenshots
and traces that get uploaded as artifacts I can check too.
irjustin wrote 18 hours 21 min ago:
> What is the downside to using email?
If true to the post, it lacks "real time". Doom scrolling by nature
not chat where it is async. Refreshing Gmail constantly is not fun.
plagiarist wrote 19 hours 43 min ago:
I'd rather have an DM interface and each task has its own little icon
or face. You still have to set up one of the text servers and also do
VPN but if you're already vibe coding that stuff why not make it more
pleasant than TUI on your phone?
aqme28 wrote 20 hours 54 min ago:
I code from my phone via GitHub and the Claude actions plugin.
slashdave wrote 21 hours 19 min ago:
E-mail is not secure (sent in plain text)
johnnyanmac wrote 18 hours 18 min ago:
You're vibe coding. Clearly what you're working on isn't of enough
value to secure anyway.
bigfishrunning wrote 21 hours 0 min ago:
Unless you set up pgp in your email client...
Flere-Imsaho wrote 22 hours 52 min ago:
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.
gingersnap wrote 10 hours 21 min ago:
Can you do it with signal?
jes5199 wrote 18 hours 14 min ago:
I've been using Telegram bot to talk to a Claude SDK agent who
talks to my Claudes via tmux commands (all running on a
DigitalOcean VPS)
durch wrote 20 hours 9 min ago:
I've replied with this in another comment, but this seems more
pertinent ;)
Thats exactly the approach I took with [1] , 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 happensâbut I can unblock it from my
phone in 5 seconds instead of rejecting a PR based on a wrong
guess.
URI [1]: https://github.com/cloud-atlas-ai/miranda
dogline wrote 20 hours 19 min ago:
I have custom scripts I use at home to keep track of various
personal data, assisted by an LLM. The idea of using Telegram as a
way to have a global, quick, and personal interface from my phone
or tablet, is perfect and easy to set up.
Claude is making it easier to have bespoke data and dashboards for
anything. We're going to make a lot of them, for all reasons.
I've also made apps with Django interfaces, but quick, global
interfaces are going to become in demand.
darkwater wrote 9 hours 37 min ago:
I concur, but I also think that Home Assistant could be used as a
rock bed to build many of those dashboards easily. They just need
to revert the "go all in on UI first configuration" and keep YAML
declarations as first-class citizen to let LLMs easily compose
dashboards based on user's desires.
electroglyph wrote 21 hours 30 min ago:
Cloudflare worker would work, too
gonzaloalvarez wrote 22 hours 18 min ago:
I didnât know until I read this comment, but this is exactly what
I want. A telegram bot with Claude on the other side and GitHub app
to check out the code
khy wrote 23 hours 32 min ago:
I've been using Claude Code in their iOS app (on a Pro account). I
just point it at my GitHub repo, and tell it to work on one of the
issues I created. It required very little setup beyond what I did for
Claude Code CLI.
serf wrote 18 hours 3 min ago:
i've seen that work well on existing codebases, but bootstrapping a
codebase that way is like pulling teeth in my past experiences.
so it really sort of falls back to what you're doing with the llm.
code maintenance isn't novel development, which isn't polishing.
runjake wrote 23 hours 33 min ago:
> 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 author is doing, except I use a $5 Linode VPS,
instead of a Mac at home.
He doesn't seem to be credited on this page, but I believe Pieter
Levels (@levelsio) actually popularized this scheme. The author
documents a nearly identical scheme.
dpoloncsak wrote 6 hours 9 min ago:
So what about setting up a discord server for you and your LLM?
Gets the notification benefit of E-mail but retains the
immediate-resposne, no? That's how all my UptimeKuma notifs are
setup atleast...
runjake wrote 17 hours 15 min ago:
I can no longer edit this comment but it wasnât meant to
criticize the author. This is a great post. They are sharing their
experiences and more importantly, teaching others.
Sorry if anyone, especially the author, took it this way.
postalcoder wrote 17 hours 24 min ago:
> Tmux is helpful, too.
Yes. tmux is essential. It's great to be able to monitor a session
from desktop, or to pick up an existing conversation i'm having on
the computer on my phone. In my shell, I have gemini flash wrapper
that I use to manage my sessions so I can quickly connect to an
existing one, or create a new one with natural language.
> He doesn't seem to be credited on this page, but I believe Pieter
Levels (@levelsio) actually popularized this scheme. The author
documents a nearly identical scheme.
I've been doing this (tailscale + termius + tmux + ssh) for at
least a year and a half. First with Aider in this exact setup, and
now with Claude Code and Codex.
johnnyanmac wrote 18 hours 20 min ago:
>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".
worthless-trash wrote 12 hours 28 min ago:
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.
duggan wrote 11 hours 38 min ago:
Yeah, any outright dismissal of a perfectly reasonable idea
like this smells of market opportunity.
stavros wrote 21 hours 24 min ago:
I'm fairly sure that levelsio didn't popularize SSHing into a
computer from your phone to run a program. We were all doing it
before LLMs.
pizzalife wrote 16 hours 10 min ago:
I did this on my Nokia phone over GPRS in 2005, my program of
choice was irssi. We did have a Markov chain bot though.
johnisgood wrote 11 hours 1 min ago:
This!
runjake wrote 19 hours 47 min ago:
By âthis schemeâ I meant combining these several technologies
for vibe coding on an iPhone with Claude Code. Itâs been a bit
of a viral meme on X this week.
djmips wrote 11 hours 32 min ago:
I started doing this before it was viral - it's basically
obvious and I'm sure many people simultaneously did it since it
was so obvious and easy to do - I even have the same tech
combination.
elemdos wrote 20 hours 51 min ago:
New ideas build on existing ideas. He said SSH into a computer to
run Claude Code on that computer.
ehnto wrote 19 hours 52 min ago:
The whole point to SSH into a computer is to run the programs
on it.
yeasku wrote 18 hours 57 min ago:
But is Claude Code
djmips wrote 11 hours 32 min ago:
Yes. I and many others were already doing this obvious
thing.
lobsterthief wrote 9 hours 50 min ago:
I think he was being facetious ;)
stavros wrote 20 hours 30 min ago:
Yeah, I've never read anything levelsio wrote and I sshed into
my computer to run Claude Code five minutes after I installed
Claude Code and had to leave the house for a bit.
It's not such a crazy idea.
RobotCaleb wrote 18 hours 40 min ago:
No, somebody famous had to influence you for it to exist. The
real progenitors are always other people.
bigfishrunning wrote 21 hours 1 min ago:
I agree, I'm failing to see what's novel here... Running an ssh
client from a phone has been a thing forever
yeasku wrote 18 hours 59 min ago:
The LLM crowd kind of likes hype.
mr_toad wrote 20 hours 13 min ago:
RDP clients as well.
deanputney wrote 21 hours 26 min ago:
It wouldn't shock me if multiple people came up with this idea
independently. I've certainly experimented with it over the last
couple years.
godelski wrote 23 hours 6 min ago:
While I don't use the AI part I have a very similar scheme and it
is one of the reasons I encourage people to live in the terminal.
The idea is to create a modern "terminal"[0]
My main computer is a Macbook Air, which I carry around with me.
It's purpose is for: internet, using Microsoft products when I'm
forced to, Zoom/meetings, and SSH (or Mosh).
Most of my work is not done on this Macbook, instead I use it
mostly as a terminal. I have a desktop that's sitting behind my TV
so that it can be my TV and gaming system (yeah I know Monitor >
TV. I'm a filthy casual and I don't care). I have a mouse connected
to that computer and instead of using a keyboard I use ydotool
(Wayland xdotool) with a shortcut on my iPhone or a script on my
android phone or from my Macbook. I don't have to get up from the
couch and I don't need a clunky wireless keyboard to clutter my
livingroom.
Additionally I have a few pis and an old android phone with
Tailscale installed on them. That's come in handy before as a
machine's been disconnected and so I couldn't ssh from outside.
Also makes it really easy to do a jump if you want to keep a
machine off Tailscale or you don't have full control (like my 3D
printer).
This setup is very natural feeling if you live in the terminal. I
actually started doing this when I started doing HPC work. In a
setting like that you're never sitting in front of the computer
you're doing most of your work on so it kinda clicked "why was I
restricting myself outside work?" Plus there's the side benefits of
I always have access to my media, tools, and other stuff. You can
do exactly the same thing with a phone but I like having a keyboard
and the air is very lightweight and has a long battery life. Any
netbook would have done the job tbh.
[0] There's a reason they're called "terminal emulators" rather
than just "terminals".
alexfoo wrote 6 hours 36 min ago:
> ... I encourage people to live in the terminal.
I've done this for decades. screen or tmux (although I still
confuse the keybindings between the two).
When coding on the move (mostly when I had a long commute or was
away from the office visit clients) I'd use the Linux console
(Ctrl+Alt+F1-F6) rather than X.
Even in the office I had an old amber/green terminal that
connected to my Linux desktop via a serial port.
Nowadays I have a 14" USB-C monitor (ASUS Zenscreen) that sits
beneath my main monitors which runs a terminal full screen.
t_mahmood wrote 11 hours 59 min ago:
Similar, except I use a 10 year old surface pro 3. But I have to
have a mechanical keyboard, so it's not exactly portable, but I
can work from anywhere
I have no interest in LLM, or vibe code. Even though I miss the
capabilities of intellij, nvim can fill the roll in the terminal
very nicely, except rust analyzer filling up storage fast,
I also have a spare mobile, which I use to wake the computer up.
And I have a python script running on it, to shutdown the
computer in case of power failure.
After initial hiccups it working pretty well, except cats turning
off the router, well how many can use the excuse that I couldn't
finish the work because cat controls your network. LoL
k4rli wrote 13 hours 9 min ago:
How do you type? I get the ydotool usage but do you have a
shortcut for each key then on your phone?
efskap wrote 17 hours 29 min ago:
Yeah thin clients [0] make a lot of sense with this kind of
workflow. If you only really need text, living in the terminal
and browser, it might make sense to use eink for eye comfiness
and outdoor readability, something like this hack: [1] . Or one
of those eink android tablets.
[0]
URI [1]: https://maxogden.com/kindleberry-wireless
URI [2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thin_client
godelski wrote 15 hours 24 min ago:
Has the refresh rate on eink devices reached like 30-60fps?
It definitely looks cool and I might give it a try, but I do
love my dark mode and color syntax. My understanding is that
color on eink is pretty limited. It also isn't worth it to me
if I'm going to be spending $500+ on a "monitor". But I'd
definitely love if things moved in that direction.
Honestly if Apple wasn't so insistent on making the iPad not a
general purpose computer I'd use that as my thin client.
gabrielhidasy wrote 2 hours 38 min ago:
They are still not great for high refresh rate, but I have a
boox note air4C that can do fast-enough for video. It gets
some ghosting (although it should be minimal for typing as
you are fully changing from white to $color, backspaces might
be a problem though). You will need a full refresh when
scrolling but that is fast enough.
mkoubaa wrote 21 hours 24 min ago:
Things are trending this way. I call it the PC
counter-revolution.
fragmede wrote 22 hours 44 min ago:
If you've got a Mac in the mix, you should be aware that it can
use an Apple TV as a monitor, so you can have a wireless extended
desktop to anything that takes HDMI.
godelski wrote 22 hours 23 min ago:
Are there any benefits besides a nice GUI? I'm fairly
comfortable with my linux desktop as an interface. TBH the most
frustrating part is the iPhone shortcut app I made which I
strongly believe is less about me and more than Apple is
actively trying to be annoying (I recently had an update that
required a minor change because the dictionaries in Shortcuts
is idiotic)
Also, I heard that you can install Tailscale on it[0], so that
can act as a gateway which is nice.
[0]
URI [1]: https://tailscale.com/kb/1280/appletv
fragmede wrote 18 hours 11 min ago:
It's something to be aware of if you already have the mac.
It's nice to be able to have people over and they can share
what's on their laptop with everybody without everybody
having to huddle around one machine.
aghilmort wrote 23 hours 33 min ago:
interesting. email. Simple multiple sessions support to reply vs
tabbing here there get threaded. clever
with vpn vps if want to interact? how would that work?
jscheel wrote 23 hours 51 min ago:
Iâve been doing some of this through a term on my phone, but it
honestly sucks. Other interfaces (telegram, web ui, email) are gonna
be much better experiences on your phone.
pmarreck wrote 1 day ago:
> seems easier then getting a vpn working
it could not possibly be easier to get Tailscale up and running on
your mac or linux machine, install tmux and mosh on your mac or linux
machine, connect to it with Blink Shell [1] on your iOS device that
you've also installed tailscale to, and start vibe-coding from
anywhere, on a performant, resilient, instantly resumable terminal
connection.
seriously, it's a game-changer
URI [1]: https://blink.sh/
mulmen wrote 23 hours 39 min ago:
But I already have email.
yieldcrv wrote 1 day ago:
Inspiring me to do this in Telegram
âWhy not Telegramâ
all the crypto bros are already there, and maybe some e-commerce
j45 wrote 1 day ago:
Email is funny - maybe as a backup. Prompting is chatting.
ZenoArrow wrote 1 day ago:
It's amazing to me this is called coding at all. Who knew all project
managers and business analysts coming up with business requirements
were actually just coding gods sent from the future.
8note wrote 1 day ago:
ive tried slack before, but a challenge is how well you can get
results returned back in a way where you can actually see what it did
and give proper next steps
getting a PR back and being able to put comments on it is fine, but
ive had middling success getting qcli at least to actually match the
comments with the code that was commented on. i get the sense that
there isnt any training with the comments inlined well on a diff:/
it doesnt have to be a vpn though, i was on an oauth webbrowser
terminal, and things like coder[0] let you run vscode on the browser,
including on your phone browser. there's also happy coder[1] which i
tried using to connect between the new builtin android linux vm, and
skip all the remote stuff entirely, but the phone would inevitably
kill the terminal runbing claude, killing the whole thing. you can
currently just run claude from your phone in that, which only has the
problem that when the vm crashes, all you can do is wipe the
partition.
[0] [1]
URI [1]: https://coder.com/
URI [2]: https://happy.engineering/
calvinmorrison wrote 1 day ago:
How about leveraging the git email workflow? hey - Claudio submitted
a patchset
LTL_FTC wrote 1 day ago:
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.
durch wrote 21 hours 26 min ago:
Same approach here. PR is the human review point, tests +
CodeRabbit catch most issues -> [1] .
The gap I wanted to fill: when Claude is genuinely uncertain ("JWT
or sessions?" "Breaking change or not?"), it either guesses wrong
or punts to the PR description where you can't easily respond.
Built a Telegram bot that 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 happensâbut I
can unblock it from my phone in 5 seconds instead of rejecting a PR
based on a wrong guess.
Works in tandem with a bunch of other LLM enhancers I've built,
they're linked in the README or that repo
URI [1]: https://github.com/cloud-atlas-ai/miranda
magospietato wrote 22 hours 13 min ago:
This is how I do mobile device coding. Android terminal w. git and
gh installed and authenticated. Claude manages the feature
branching and PR process; I review the PR in the GitHub mobile app.
johnmaguire wrote 23 hours 39 min ago:
This pretty much sounds like my dream vibe coding dashboard -
basically a personal Github populated by AI agents I can assign
tasks to. Does this exist yet? Or can something like gitea be setup
to behave this way?
fragmede wrote 22 hours 43 min ago:
Gastown, by Steve Yeggs is that, via tmux. It's rather
opinionated and still in development, but it's worth a look if
that's what you're looking for.
durch wrote 20 hours 11 min ago:
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 ->
URI [1]: https://github.com/cloud-atlas-ai/ba
rbergamini27 wrote 9 min ago:
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 (
[1] ). Absolutely loved it. I come from an electrical/nuclear
engineering background - Yegge reminds me of the cool senior
engineer who's young at heart and open to change.
URI [1]: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zuJyJP517Uw
harlanlewis wrote 22 hours 54 min ago:
In terms of issue tracking and agentic "developers", with a
mobile focus -
You can connect Linear to Cursor's web agent, which makes Linear
issues assignable to the agent directly and kicks off Cursor's
take on remote coding agent. You can then guide it further via
Cursor's web chat.
If Claude Code on iOS supported Linear MCP (as it does on
desktop), you can run a similar issue handoff to agent to issue
update workflow, albeit without direct issue assignment to the
agent "user". Easy to use labels aka tags for agent assignment
tracking, as well.
For my hobby projects, I've been using Linear +
agentFlavorOfTheMonth quite happily this way. I imagine Github
issues, Asana, whatever could be wired up in place of Linear.
gempir wrote 1 day ago:
Why not use a browser?
OpenCode has a webUI, you can simply host that on your machine at
home and VPN to it. [1] (sadly no screenshots, but its a pretty good
GUI, looks like their desktop app)
URI [1]: https://opencode.ai/docs/server/
tailspin2019 wrote 21 hours 43 min ago:
From that page:
> The opencode serve command runs a headless HTTP server that
exposes an OpenAPI endpointâ¦
Unless I missed it, thereâs no mention of a web UI?
gempir wrote 15 hours 27 min ago:
The docs are very behind, there is indeed a full blown webui and
with opencode serve you can access it
odie5533 wrote 21 hours 14 min ago:
`opencode web` runs the web ui. It's very good.
pmarreck wrote 1 day ago:
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 [1] 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.
URI [1]: https://blink.sh/
einsteinx2 wrote 20 hours 36 min ago:
> and blink shell [1] 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 itâs been so long now that I
completely forget why.
EDIT: does Blink give you a local shell as well like vs only
SSH/mosh?
URI [1]: https://blink.sh/
alentodorov wrote 23 hours 2 min ago:
tried tmux but realized claude/gemini/codex's --resume works
great and have since started using a single chat for all small
work projects
gempir wrote 1 day ago:
Well the beauty is the logic lives on the server. The client is
just a client.
If it disconnects you just reload the page. It can work just fine
in the background because itâs not running on your phone.
Just like you can refresh the ChatGPT website, but OpenCode lives
on your pc at home, not OpenAI servers.
pmarreck wrote 23 hours 54 min ago:
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)
kovek wrote 21 hours 20 min ago:
Is it easy to move the text cursor around in the text input
in blink shell?
ralfhn wrote 1 day ago:
or text messages? Could be more convenient to reply to a text
darknavi wrote 1 day ago:
> What is the downside to using email?
Make sure you authenticate somehow to prevent external abuse.
Natfan wrote 1 day ago:
then run the mail servers locally?
scottbez1 wrote 1 day ago:
Iâd love this, if only for improved diff reviews possible compared
to a terminal window! Would also work better for intermittent
connectivity.
educasean wrote 1 day ago:
I see no downsides. Seems like an actually useful udea.
9dev wrote 1 day ago:
that would be perfect.
rbergamini27 wrote 1 day ago:
This is genius! The tailscale vpn was stupid easy to setup (I'm a
near novice and figured it out). An email interface with progress
updates would be even better than doom coding.
urbandw311er wrote 1 day ago:
I already doom code! Iâve always found coding a highly addictive
activity and struggle to stop when I should. So for me itâs a hard no
thanks :-)
rbergamini27 wrote 1 day ago:
This is very relatable - hence keeping "doom" in the moniker. Stay
strong my friend
cons0le wrote 1 day ago:
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.
adhamsalama wrote 23 hours 40 min ago:
Just install Termux and you're good to go.
rbergamini27 wrote 1 day ago:
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.
vaylian wrote 23 hours 42 min ago:
> sitting with your laptop in the park is too strange.
Why should that be strange?
cons0le wrote 1 day ago:
I've used this for a decade and still use it. Easy compatibility
with tmux, can ssh, use llm, etc.
URI [1]: https://github.com/fandreuz/TUI-ConsoleLauncher
sjrd wrote 1 day ago:
I genuinely did that a few times. Using an ssh client to fix a commit
failing CI, for example. Even launching release builds remotely.
Notably once when I was on vacation and half the Scala ecosystem was
waiting for me.
functionmouse wrote 1 day ago:
> 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?
ludocode wrote 21 hours 53 min ago:
I just use ConnectBot to ssh to my house. It runs tmux and vim well,
especially with a little pocket-size folding bluetooth keyboard to go
with it.
zingar wrote 23 hours 38 min ago:
Hang on, is Claude running on your phone/tablet and installing large
dev dependencies right there? Or which parts of this stack are you
replacing with termux?
kurtis_reed wrote 21 hours 29 min ago:
Yeah, everything runs on the phone
hypercube33 wrote 15 hours 12 min ago:
Didn't vscode have a web browser version you could self host so
where is the cursor version, anysphere?
katsura wrote 1 day ago:
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.
hhh wrote 1 day ago:
use blink
URI [1]: https://apps.apple.com/nl/app/blink-shell-build-code/id159...
zamadatix wrote 17 hours 45 min ago:
Blink will end up giving you an experience similar to the stack
in doom-coding (as Blink's local capabilities are very limited
thanks to iOS rules) except you have to pay a subscription.
Termux on Android will let you do anything you can do on your
standard Linux PC.
hhh wrote 7 hours 39 min ago:
Hmm, maybe I got grandfathered in or something because I paid
some set price a few years ago and have not had a subscription
for blink, and just use it the same way I would use Ghostty and
then ssh into another machine. Use something else if it needs a
sub. Some sibling comments had some recommendations.
raddan wrote 1 day ago:
Or shellfish. [1]
URI [1]: https://secureshellfish.app/
setopt wrote 12 hours 15 min ago:
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. Itâs also generally
polished and supports the expected standard terminal features.
Thereâs a few settings I wished were possible, like using
volume buttons as modifier keys in Emacs (Iâve heard about
this in other apps), but mostly it works fine.
b40d-48b2-979e wrote 1 day ago:
Termux with a 10-keyless BT keyboard in bed was a comfy way to solve
AOC problems considering it released at midnight in my timezone.
rbergamini27 wrote 1 day ago:
This comment taught me about Termux. Good to know!
ijustlovemath wrote 19 hours 48 min ago:
Make sure you install it via FDroid. Also grab Termux:API to be
able to write little apps with bash scripts. Here's one I did
which gives a notification based interface to Pandora:
URI [1]: https://github.com/ijustlovemath/pbr
tomjuggler wrote 1 day ago:
Pretty cool idea, I'm going to be trying this only using open source
Cecli (with DeepSeek API) instead of Claude CLI because I don't have
infinite $$$
rbergamini27 wrote 1 day ago:
Thanks! And great idea! I'm still new to hacking - definitely need to
check out more of the open source tools out there
tomjuggler wrote 23 hours 47 min ago:
[1] It's a fork of Aider but with agent mode, MCP, skills, task
manager and more. Very active development team!
URI [1]: https://github.com/dwash96/cecli
mritchie712 wrote 1 day ago:
to keep your mac awake:
caffeinate -di
rbergamini27 wrote 1 day ago:
Thank you! Did not know about this command before - good to know
syngrog66 wrote 1 day ago:
Claude not needed to "code from anywhere you are" and certainly not
from your phone. no LLM needed. no agents. Tailscale or any other VPN
not needed
use a laptop. (trying to do it with only a phone-factor UI is madness.)
have a mobile-friendly ISP if desired or needed. solved. been solved
for decades
so much of the AI BS hyping is about inventing supposedly unsolved
problems. like Google showing me ads to convince me to use Gemini to
write a README. no thanks, kids, have been able to do that for many
decades using only my brain, eyes, fingers and vi/vim
duskdozer wrote 11 hours 50 min ago:
>so much of the AI BS hyping is about inventing supposedly unsolved
problems. like Google showing me ads to convince me to use Gemini to
write a README.
Okay, but how are you going to write your AGENTS.md file??
alentodorov wrote 22 hours 59 min ago:
revived an ipad mini 2 (2013), rooted it and ssh-ed in and let claude
handle the tailscale setup, terminal emulator selection, and prep
work. perfect form factor and can test web apps via browser.
rbergamini27 wrote 1 day ago:
You can't bring a laptop to the club! Truthfully I haven't tried so I
will keep you posted.
scottbez1 wrote 1 day ago:
How do I use a laptop while standing on a train each day? It sounds
like a laptop is sufficient for you, but I suspect (based on myself
and other responses in this thread) that a laptop is not always
viable for many people; this tutorial appears targeted toward those
people.
Iâve actually considered a neck/shoulder support for a laptop in
the past but decided against it because itâd be cumbersome and make
me a theft target.
As for AI, personally speaking I use AI coding tools to allow me to
continue enjoying some hobby side projects with less free time
available with a kid. Itâs been a massive boost to my happiness in
a generally low stakes area. Iâm curious to see if I can get a
similar unlock on my short and interrupted commute times as well,
which is why I (personally) find this article interesting.
syngrog66 wrote 1 day ago:
dont try to code while standing on a train. one of many antpatterns
a wise engineer should learn to avoid, as part of polishing our
craft. also: dont juggle chainsaws, etc ;-)
solumunus wrote 21 hours 19 min ago:
I wouldnât want to code but I could easily be working on plans
with Claude.
8note wrote 1 day ago:
but also dont try coding on a laptop. use a proper desktop, or
better yet, get time on a mainframe. the problem has been solved
forever, juat do work from the workplace at a dedicated terminal,
built for doing that work at.
tom_ wrote 17 hours 15 min ago:
Not coding on a laptop is actually good advice?! My argument
would be that you shouldn't be doing any work without plugging
your laptop into a full size keyboard and mouse at least. And,
ideally, at least one external display of some form (I
recommend 2 or 3, but it depends on exact setup/total
resolution/etc.). But it's your body, not mine.
Regarding terminals, how often does this requirement occur in
practice? Assuming it does, you can probably use your laptop
for it, in which case, see above.
syngrog66 wrote 23 hours 9 min ago:
groan HN needs a mute/block feature so we can mute/block folks
like you. toxic. get a life
chankstein38 wrote 1 day ago:
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.
PopePompus wrote 1 day ago:
Also, if your Android phone is a Pixel, you can run the recently
added Terminal app, which runs a plain vanilla Debian distribution
within a VM. So you then have a pocketable Linux machine to develop
code on. Not only does Python run on it, you can install the entire
Anaconda Python suite.
phrotoma wrote 10 hours 7 min ago:
Got a direct link to the app? The play store search is just
offering me the Tom Hanks movie about a dude stuck in an airport
...
Edit: found it using these instructions.
URI [1]: https://github.com/nix-community/nixos-avf?tab=readme-ov-f...
interloxia wrote 11 hours 28 min ago:
I tried this a while back with. NET and Blazor. With split screen I
was able to add some code and preview live in the browser and build
and 'install' a simple pwa.
Presumably with an external monitor and the desktop mode it would
be better.
Code from tiny llms such as Gemma are a waste of time but it
"worked". It was neat to generate a working app completely offline.
The main problem was that the VM crashed on my pixel fairly
frequently. Might be better by now.
PopePompus wrote 8 hours 35 min ago:
I don't think it's actually the VM crashing, it's the Android OS
killing what it thinks is an idle app.
manx wrote 17 hours 45 min ago:
Also, you can have NixOS instead of debian:
URI [1]: https://github.com/nix-community/nixos-avf
cess11 wrote 22 hours 55 min ago:
Why would that be preferable to Termux?
PopePompus wrote 22 hours 20 min ago:
Because, wonderful as Termux is, it has a very nonstandard
filesystem layout, so installation scripts for something like
Anaconda will not run without extensive modifications. And Termux
has no access to /proc, /dev etc., so lots of utilities fail.
Since Terminal provides a full Linux VM, all programs that will
run on Linux just work as expected.
cess11 wrote 11 hours 8 min ago:
I haven't noticed anything like that. Some more obscure tools
have trouble with the file system but that happens in ordinary
Linux too. Though I have no experience with Anaconda
specifically so you likely know better whether it'll need
adaptations to work under Termux.
I run htop just fine on my handhelds and I'm pretty sure it
sources directly from /proc, /sys or something.
PopePompus wrote 8 hours 28 min ago:
On my unrooted Pixel, I get "Permission denied" errors if I
ls /sys, /dev, /proc and / within Termux. And /usr and /var
don't exist.
RavSS wrote 18 hours 56 min ago:
Termux can access the full file system if you have root access,
which is how I play around with it; however, running a VM is a
safer and easier route, especially as smartphone manufacturers
are making it tougher to root the device you own.
gloxkiqcza wrote 23 hours 42 min ago:
Wow, thatâs cool! I wonder whether one day Apple is going to
allow something like this with headless âmacOSâ VM on iPadOS to
make it a viable local development platform.
fuzzer371 wrote 19 hours 10 min ago:
I would venture a guess some time between: "The heat death of the
universe" and "Never".
rbergamini27 wrote 1 day ago:
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?
jfroma wrote 1 day ago:
I do the same but my unifi network gives me a vpn out of the box.
FooBarWidget wrote 1 day ago:
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 and
pen. On a phone it's also inconvenient to do research.
For me personally I've found two better uses of in-between time:
1. Micro exercises. Really important for health and longevity,
especially when it's hard to find dedicated time for exercise.
2. Resting. This means no phone. Yeah hard to resist doom scrolling.
Just relaxing muscles and breathing exercises, calming down the nervous
system. Increases long term resillience and reduces stress.
So I'm a bit puzzled. If you are in a situation where you can
concentrate, why not just pull out a laptop? Typing on phone is really
annoying. Even complex conversations with AI I prefer doing on a
laptop.
Perhaps there are coding tasks where the prompt is not too complex and
it's more about writing code. But you still have to review the result.
That's even more annoying on a phone than writing text.
dinkumthinkum wrote 15 hours 7 min ago:
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.
jcul wrote 1 day ago:
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 a work machine or
a personal machine through a VPN is not new, even if you happen to
run claude code in that terminal.
I'm interested in these "micro exercises".
FooBarWidget wrote 14 hours 38 min ago:
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.
yoz-y wrote 1 day ago:
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.
FooBarWidget wrote 14 hours 32 min ago:
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.
yoz-y wrote 5 hours 45 min ago:
For incremental changes 1-2 sentences are usually enough. Also,
since the program itself is a workout app with live reload, I can
actually fix bugs while Iâm using it.
As for too long of a wait I agree, it makes the sessions longer.
Ideal window is after a heavy superset where waiting for 3-5
minutes is not a waste.
(Note that Iâm not doing this for my real job, just for my
personal project)
rbergamini27 wrote 1 day ago:
^^ I probably rely on AI slop than most people on this thread. I've
found with the gaps with waiting on Claude Code output match the
frequency I'm already checking my phone out of addiction. By no
means the healthiest way to spend my time, but if I wanted to spin
up a simple website or build out the framework for a project doom
coding works for me!
Agreed 100% there are healthier uses of my time!
not_ai wrote 22 hours 8 min ago:
I just have it send me a push notification.
jebarker wrote 1 day ago:
I feel similarly. I am happiest and healthiest all round when I focus
on the one thing I have chosen to do at any given time rather than
figuring out ways to multi-task.
I do however enjoy choosing to do math/coding adjacent activities for
leisure or learning sometimes when I'm away from the computer. I've
found that it was a net positive in my life to add in
puzzles/exercises that I can do with pen and paper in those
circumstances.
cliffaust wrote 1 day ago:
I remember when I started learning coding, and didn't have a computer.
I literally used to use my phone to write code - terrible experience,
but I was determined
Bridged7756 wrote 1 day ago:
When I started learning coding, we had to run 50 kilometers through
dense jungle, fight Jaguars and jump over snakes, to get to the only
computer in the region. I saw a lot of friends die during the daily
journey. The teacher was a shaman too, very knowledgeable on C. He
would teach us rituals and stuff.
9dev wrote 1 day ago:
That's cute! I had to cross the Darién in both directions to get
there!
gxs wrote 1 day ago:
Luckily I think in this day and age itâd be more viable and not as
miserable as an experience - dare I say more accessible
You can connect an external keyboard to your phone and if you can
swing getting a cheap IPS panel that displays text clearly enough,
youâd have a working set up
Anyway, kudos to you, I love reading stories about determination
mattlutze wrote 1 day ago:
I remember having some kind of a shell app on my iPod Touch in
college and needing to run and find wifi a few times to troubleshoot
something at a job I was student working at.
They were fun times :D
wahnfrieden wrote 1 day ago:
I wrote C with a compiler running on my Palm Pilot well before
smartphones existed yet
esafak wrote 1 day ago:
Imagine doing that on a time share system through a rotary phone...
themadturk wrote 1 day ago:
It wasn't coding, but tech support...I was on vacation from my law
office IT job. All I had was my PalmPilot, the clip-on modem, and
my sister's landline phone system. I spent 2-3 hours one day
exchanging email with my firm's law librarian (the only other
semi-technical person in the firm) troubleshooting some odd network
problem. We got it done, but it was torture, tapping out messages
with the Palm's stylus.
fragmede wrote 1 day ago:
I remember when I started learning coding. I didn't have the
Internet. It was also terrible and I was also determined.
Bridged7756 wrote 1 day ago:
When I started learning coding I had to write my C code on paper
and have it sent by mule to the nearby city where the only computer
in the area existed. Only a week later I would hear back the result
of my programs.
raddan wrote 1 day ago:
I assume youâre joking, but I have a Cuban acquaintance who
actually did something like this. He did everything on paper and
even won a national coding competition without ever having
actually used a computer. Of course, as soon as he had the
opportunity to leave Cuba, he left for good.
CalRobert wrote 1 day ago:
I vaguely recall a service in the 90's where you'd write HTML on
paper and mail it to them and they would make a website for
you...
fragmede wrote 1 day ago:
you missed the part where you're using tmux to have the same session
between your phone and your laptop
rbergamini27 wrote 1 day ago:
Just learned about tmux lol - thank you for this!
auspiv wrote 1 day ago:
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
rbergamini27 wrote 1 day ago:
Scrolling is quite jenky with Termius - I thought there's a way to
keep sessions going when there are intermittent drops in connection
via Termius, but for how I've been building, when I lose connection I
just restart claude and reexplain the context of the task.
stets wrote 1 day ago:
try setting set -g mouse on in your tmux config. With this I'm able
to scroll up by using two fingers in termius.
sigseg1v wrote 1 day ago:
In `~/.tmux.conf` try adding `set -g mouse on`, for mouse scrolling
fragmede wrote 1 day ago:
Yes, you need tmux/similar to keep things running.
qaboutthat wrote 1 day ago:
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.
Aldipower wrote 1 day ago:
Coding on a phone really isn't something new. With tmux a lot of people
created crazy things directly on their phone. In some countries this
even is the only possibility to code at all, because there are no
laptops.
The example use case images are very funny though! :-)
epolanski wrote 1 day ago:
Which countries in the world don't sell laptops?
cyberrock wrote 18 hours 33 min ago:
Having the means doesn't mean the would-be programmer is in charge
of the purse. I got my start coding at the local library because my
parents wouldn't get me my own computer until I was in high school.
gmueckl wrote 23 hours 32 min ago:
There are countries where the market for PCs and laptops is really
tiny and the stores sell them at markups compared to US/European
prices. Many of these countries are low wage countries, too, so
these markups have a big impact on affordability.
guywithahat wrote 1 day ago:
I assume he means people are too poor to have multiple devices, and
if you only have one it's probably a phone. That said I'm dubious
anyone who only has a phone is doing meaningful coding
cyberrock wrote 18 hours 32 min ago:
The initial version of Copyparty seems to have been written on a
phone:
URI [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46056869
fataleszumittag wrote 1 day ago:
There is this guy: [1] . I havenât used his plugin, but it
seems quite popular (+3k stars). I guess ergonomics donât
matter so much yet when you are young..
URI [1]: https://github.com/OXY2DEV/markview.nvim/issues/216#issu...
guywithahat wrote 1 day ago:
Huh, makes you wonder if it's actually doing it on his phone or
if he has a keyboard and maybe dock and monitor he attaches it
to. I suppose my original comment was too broad, there was a
point not too long ago when everyone wanted to replace their
laptop with their phone. Samsung even let you dual boot linux
from your phone with DeX
greggh wrote 18 hours 58 min ago:
Following that story as it happened, it was all on the phone
with the phone keyboard and he somehow made multiple good
Neovim plugins including that very popular one (which I use
in multiple configs).
4k93n2 wrote 11 hours 31 min ago:
neovim is probably the only sane way you could code like
this on a small screen. everything works pretty much the
same way it does on a desktop terminal, the only thing you
have to get used to is having so many lines wrapped, and
not having quick access to some characters like $ or ^, but
they can just be added to the toolbar in termux
robertfw wrote 1 day ago:
there are going to be quite a lot of places where getting a laptop
is a considerable expense
epolanski wrote 23 hours 8 min ago:
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.
basisword wrote 20 hours 25 min ago:
>> 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.
bpev wrote 1 day ago:
Those demo photos are fantastic
rbergamini27 wrote 1 day ago:
Thank you! My wife was concerned, I'm glad someone out there
appreciates the humor
lifetimerubyist wrote 1 day ago:
ha, I've recently been studying the original DOOM source code - does
that count?
llmslave2 wrote 1 day ago:
Yes
OakNinja wrote 1 day ago:
Please mask your identifiers, unless they are already spoofed. You
potentially give out a lot of your info to bad actors.
Other than that, love it :)
rbergamini27 wrote 1 day ago:
Thanks! I did not sppof! I thought that since it was my local
Tailnet, only devices on that net could connect. I just rebuilt the
network as a precaution.
OakNinja wrote 1 day ago:
Most of the time it's probably fine, but we should assume we don't
know about all the attack vectors bad actors might use, so better
safe than sorry.
I forgot to say that I _absolutely loved_ the photos!
rbergamini27 wrote 1 day ago:
Very true! Was that Rumsfeld, right? Unknown unknowns?
And thank you! I'm glad you appreciated the humor. I'm still a
novice builder, so the thought of ssh-ing to my home computer
from a plane geeks me out. I'm about 20 years late but I'm here
now!
scottbez1 wrote 1 day ago:
Itâs a simple idea but one that hadnât 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 Iâll
be giving this a try this week!
Doom coding might be doomed while Iâm in the transbay tube though,
with awful cell serviceâ¦
Howâs the diff review? I rely heavily on the vs code integration for
nice side by side diffs, so losing that might be a problem unless
thereâs some way to launch the diffs into a separate diff viewer app
on the phone.
duskdozer wrote 12 hours 30 min ago:
URI [1]: https://github.com/dandavison/delta
rbergamini27 wrote 1 day ago:
Let me know how it goes! From the comments above, seems like you can
use tmux to keep persistent sessions when you lose Internet
connection - but I haven't tried myself.
Diff review is alright. I'm an amateur programmer. Sometimes I don't
look at the code claude generates, but when I'm troubleshooting a
bug, I'll ask claude to output all recent changes - which satisfies
my untrained eye.
ectospheno wrote 1 day ago:
I donât compile from my phone but I do write code using it. I use
fossil for version control. The in browser editor is good enough to
get ideas down. It has great diffs which is also nice. I will check
in code and move it to a branch then revisit it when Iâm home.
worksonmine wrote 1 day ago:
I would guess a phone is way too small for side by side diffs, and a
simple `git diff` would probably be more useful. If you want better
syntax highlighting you could setup bat[0] as your difftool. If you
insist on a side-by-side view (neo)vim has a diff mode with the -d
flag. It is also possible to setup as the difftool that git uses.
[0]:
URI [1]: https://github.com/sharkdp/bat
scottbez1 wrote 1 day ago:
Heh, many years ago I actually started writing a dedicated diff
viewer app for Android [0] that specifically had synchronized
horizontal scrolling between the two sides, and I remember finding
it relatively usable in landscape, and Iâm sure modern phones
with larger and higher density screens would be even better.
But yeah, you definitely need a native experience to make side by
side diffs viable on mobile.
[0] [1] â I wish I had recorded some videos of the app back then.
My code review workflow back then eventually stopped including diff
attachments on code review emails, so I abandoned development on
it.
URI [1]: https://github.com/scottbez1/superdiff
leetrout wrote 1 day ago:
Just because you can doesn't mean you should. But congrats on
launching!
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