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Comment · 9 months ago
FYI I just now caught a critical missing step of disabling IPv4 in your Tailscale settings to doom code via cell service. Many of you probably did not have an issue figuring out that missing step - but for those of you like me, apologies for not passing along the time-saving lesson learned!
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Comment · 9 months 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.

Comment · 9 months 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)

Comment · 9 months 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!

Comment · 9 months 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!

Comment · 9 months ago
Exactly
Comment · 9 months ago
Just learned about tmux lol - thank you for this!
Comment · 9 months 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.

Comment · 9 months 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.
Comment · 9 months ago
Thank you! My wife was concerned, I'm glad someone out there appreciates the humor
Comment · 9 months ago
Thanks! And great idea! I'm still new to hacking - definitely need to check out more of the open source tools out there
Comment · 9 months ago
That phone was taken 5 minutes before departure lol - a micro laptop sounds sweet!
Comment · 9 months ago
This is very relatable - hence keeping "doom" in the moniker. Stay strong my friend
Comment · 9 months 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.

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