rbergamini27

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!

durch - just starred this repo! Looking forward to testing it out as I learn how to build with multiple agents.

I'm just starting out with building with Claude - after a friend made this post he sent me a Steve Yegge interview (https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zuJyJP517Uw). Absolutely loved it. I come from an electrical/nuclear engineering background - Yegge reminds me of the cool senior engineer who's young at heart and open to change.

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.

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)

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!

^^ 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!

Exactly

Just learned about tmux lol - thank you for this!

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.

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.

Thank you! My wife was concerned, I'm glad someone out there appreciates the humor

Thanks! And great idea! I'm still new to hacking - definitely need to check out more of the open source tools out there

That phone was taken 5 minutes before departure lol - a micro laptop sounds sweet!

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

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.

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?

This comment taught me about Termux. Good to know!

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.

Thank you! Did not know about this command before - good to know

You can't bring a laptop to the club! Truthfully I haven't tried so I will keep you posted.

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.