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Notes from your pocket
Opinions, field reports and the occasional obituary — from the team behind Mobile SSH, the native SSH, SFTP and terminal client for Android, iPhone and iPad.
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Eleven hours over the Atlantic
Seat 24B is watching a film it has seen three times. Seat 24C is reviewing four servers on the same Wi-Fi. At 35,786 km light alone costs 477 ms round trip — here is what actually breaks when you work from a plane, and why it is not what you think.
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Laptops are dead. Long live your pocket.
But SSH and TCP/IP survived. An affectionate eulogy for the laptop (1981–2026) and the elders who outlived it — TCP/IP, designed in 1974, and SSH, written in 1995, both still running in the device already in your hand.
Read the eulogy →