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I Built tmuxhop So I Could Keep Coding From the Toilet
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I Built tmuxhop So I Could Keep Coding From the Toilet

DEV Community·Kavan Chan·about 1 month ago
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A small local-first browser tool for hopping back into the same tmux session from your phone. I didn’t build tmuxhop because I needed full remote access. I built it because I was deep in a coding flow, had to step away from my desk for a few minutes, and didn’t want that flow to break. Sometimes that means food. Sometimes that means taking a short break. Sometimes that means going to the toilet. If you spend enough time vibe coding, you probably know the feeling: your terminal, editor, prompts, agent output, and half-finished thoughts are all lined up perfectly. You do not want to lose that state just because life interrupts for ten minutes. My phone was already in my pocket. I just wanted the same session, on another screen, with as little friction as possible. That is why I built tmuxhop . The real problem was not remote access At first glance, this sounds like a remote terminal problem. But for me, it wasn’t. There are already plenty of ways to SSH into a machine from a phone. Some of them are good.…

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