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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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Your agent. Your server. Your rules.
A preinstalled coding agent saves setup time. Decide who controls its workspace, where model requests go, and how you can take your work with you — on your own hardware or in your cloud account.
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Go outside. The agent is still working.
Your coding agent runs on your server, not on your phone. Start it under a multiplexer, walk out, and let the alerts find you when it actually needs a person — with an honest note on what Android holds open that iOS does not.
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Switch agents, not apps.
When Claude Code or Codex reaches a usage or spend limit, the subscription may stop but your repository does not. Keep the same server, working tree and mobile interface — switch one terminal command, not the whole app.
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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.
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