13 comments

  • simonw22 hours ago
    &quot;Warning: The URL is the only authentication. Anyone with the link has full terminal access.&quot;<p>Could you make it so the URL is one-use only, such that once you&#x27;ve scanned it with your phone you can stop worrying because anyone else who uses it won&#x27;t be able to start a session?
    • yxl44818 hours ago
      it is indeed disposable and the prefix is like your secure key. it is safe unless someone has access to your screen. I can add an option to permit a single session.
      • gruez10 hours ago
        &gt;it is safe unless someone has access to your screen<p>It&#x27;s not, because the &quot;secure key&quot; is only in the domain name, which is transmitted in the clear via SNI. That means anyone along the network path can get the key, and therefore can get access in your terminal.
      • stogot15 hours ago
        I would argue that it should be the default option. Cool idea!
  • sa-code19 hours ago
    I can recommend tailscale for creating private networks. It has a generous free tier and would reduce the attack surface considerably compared to ngrok<p>Better yet would be setting up your own wireguard instance and not relying on free lunches. But as far as free lunches go tailscale would be my preferred option
    • bonsai_spool16 hours ago
      Head scale is a good middle option - it uses Tailscale’s DNS system but you are able to control your network as you would with Wireguard
    • baq18 hours ago
      tailscale has a much better chance to work when you need it most. WireGuard is blocked by too much stuff.
      • ffsm813 hours ago
        Tailscale uses wireguard.<p>What it provides is a opinionated configuration management - which is admittedly great which is why I use it as well, but it&#x27;s nonsensical to say tailscale works in places where wireguard is blocked.<p>You&#x27;re likely just noticing the preconfigured nat traversal which tailscale provides and never set one up yourself, as you&#x27;d need a static IP for that and it&#x27;s unconfigured by default.
        • BrandoElFollito12 hours ago
          &gt; it&#x27;s nonsensical to say tailscale works in places where wireguard is blocked<p>I have two machines on my desk, I configure a wg service on both. I also configure tailscale on both. Everything works.<p>I move one machine to another network, at a friend&#x27;s place.<p>Wg does not work anymore. Tailscale works. So this is very much sensible to say what GP said.<p>Now, you can have all kinds of explanations about why wg dos not work and ts does, you know STUN, DERP, ts using wg under the hood, and whatnot but the facts are cruel: I cannot wg to my machine, but I can ts.
          • ffsm812 hours ago
            I was just pointing out that the statement wrt &quot;wireguard being blocked while tailscale works&quot; is nonsensical.<p>It remains nonsensical no matter how uninformed the user may be - even if he&#x27;s proud of being such, as you seem to be.<p>This was not a discussion about what tool to use if the person doesn&#x27;t know about networking and is generally ... &quot;less technical&quot;.
            • solarkraft11 hours ago
              Right, it’s that specific person’s Wireguard configuration, which is likely a typical one as a result of Wireguard‘s defaults. Tailscale‘s defaults work better, hence the surface-level impression that plain Wireguard does not work in cases in which Tailscale does.
      • roflchoppa14 hours ago
        I’ve never noticed wireguard be blocked by something, have you experienced this?
        • baq14 hours ago
          many times in public&#x2F;hotel wifis. it&#x27;s usually places which blanket ban UDP and allow TCP 80 and 443 exclusively. tailscale somehow manages to get a connection.
  • smithclay18 hours ago
    This is great. If you’re skeptical, vibe coding in the go is great because of how async the agentic coding workflows can be. Nothing like fixing a bug in the dentist office.<p>Lots of different technical solutions for how to do this, including the Claude and ChatGPT mobile apps nowadays. I use Tailscale. Choose what works best for you and enjoy.
  • reimuwu21 hours ago
    &gt; I wanted to vibe code from bed.<p>In this case, I think using Termux + SSH would be more convenient and compatible with all devices running sshd.
    • yukinon6 hours ago
      I don&#x27;t know if &quot;more convenient&quot; would be the words I would use. Setup on this project is very easy, it has very straightforward instructions. Meanwhile, I did a quick 5 minute pressure test of what you suggested and found myself with more questions than answers. I am not saying one way is better than the other, I am just thinking that for those that don&#x27;t breathe SSH&#x2F;VPN&#x2F;Wireguard&#x2F;Terminal Emulators&#x2F;etc.. this project is actually far easier to understand.<p>Also, funny enough on compatibility, but &quot;Termux&quot; is not on iOS, so it fails that basic check. But there&#x27;s alternatives, of course. Just an observation.
    • stoneforger19 hours ago
      Yes but that&#x27;s boring. Look at this it has cool ASCII and a QR. At this point no typing, just vibe-voice ask to build the thing and fix the error. Then we can have some tea, earl grey, hot.
    • viraptor7 hours ago
      Also <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;chriswritescode-dev&#x2F;opencode-manager" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;chriswritescode-dev&#x2F;opencode-manager</a> is getting there with a proper interface.
  • arisylafeta23 hours ago
    Love it, I&#x27;ve been looking for something like this for a while now. But please add a password to it if you have the time. I might chip in by next if you&#x27;re open to contributions.
    • yxl44818 hours ago
      I actually thought about it. will be added in a future release.
    • yxl44815 hours ago
      uvx ptn -p for a one-time disposable pwd!
  • MarsIronPI16 hours ago
    Genuine question here: How is this better than a mobile SSH client + something like Tailscale or Yggdrasil?
    • yxl44815 hours ago
      fast and disposable? (btw it also works like a tmux with UI)
      • rubslopes11 hours ago
        Agreed. I already use Termux for Claude code via ssh in my phone, but I&#x27;m nevertheless excited to try this.
  • gschizas18 hours ago
    This command:<p><pre><code> lsb_release -cs </code></pre> Doesn&#x27;t work for Linux Mint 22.2<p>What you want is UBUNTU_CODENAME from &#x2F;etc&#x2F;os-release (in the case of Linux Mint 22.2, it&#x27;s &quot;noble&quot;)<p>EDIT: Actually, I&#x27;m not even sure you can do $(command) inside &#x2F;etc&#x2F;apt&#x2F;sources.list.d&#x2F;*
    • yxl44817 hours ago
      Try again. I don&#x27;t have mint instance to test, but should work now.
      • gschizas14 hours ago
        I had already fixed the sources file manually, but the &quot;any&quot; distro should probably work as well (I put &quot;noble&quot; when I did the manual edit).<p>Thanks though for the fix.
  • thomasht8622 hours ago
    I wanted a secure solution, that still can be run in one command, and came up with this, <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gist.github.com&#x2F;thomasht86&#x2F;86f0f8f62db1839054abd8a7e501ff7d" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gist.github.com&#x2F;thomasht86&#x2F;86f0f8f62db1839054abd8a7e...</a>
  • mark_l_watson18 hours ago
    Very cool, indeed.<p>One nit-pick: Terminus requiring a lot of setup work:<p>Terminus is trivial to use with a rented VPS. But, ptn solves a different problem
  • brap19 hours ago
    I like this but I hate how everything has to be tied to AI now to get attention. “I wanted to vibe code-“ who cares? It’s a neat tool, do we have to force AI into it?
    • viraptor7 hours ago
      Normally we get a few &quot;but why would you make this?&quot; comments. Maybe let&#x27;s not discourage people who actually give us the answer upfront.
    • solarkraft10 hours ago
      It’s the tool‘s use case, which provides valuable background information about its technical choices.
  • kosolam21 hours ago
    I’m also vibing from the iphone. Termius connects via ssh to remote server where I run claude code. Ssh connects also over a wireguard connection. So ports are not an issue because they are all available via wg in a secure way. Additionally I have code server running there automatically port forwards and giving me ssl. So when I run “pnpm dev” in tmux in ssh then I access it via <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;3000.dev.mydomain.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;3000.dev.mydomain.com</a> which works great for development.
    • hrimfaxi20 hours ago
      Can you speak more to the code server and domain set up? How do you get it to auto provision subdomains?
      • kosolam17 hours ago
        Sure, code-server is a web version of vscode, like the github spaces thing only selfhosted.<p>I have acme.sh creating the certs using let’s encrypt. I have a reverse proxy (haproxy) in front of code server. This handles ssl.<p>The port forwarding and mapping to a subdomain is automatic - it’s a feature of code server: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;coder.com&#x2F;docs&#x2F;code-server&#x2F;guide" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;coder.com&#x2F;docs&#x2F;code-server&#x2F;guide</a><p>From the docs: code-server --proxy-domain &lt;domain&gt;
  • phs318u1 day ago
    Love it.<p>Laziness - the mother of (most) invention.
  • ballpug1xtr21 hours ago
    Further information concerning tunneling protocols, sshd&#x2F; ssh is accessible in the man site:<p>[1]:<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;man.openbsd.org&#x2F;sshd.8" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;man.openbsd.org&#x2F;sshd.8</a><p>[2]:<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;man.freebsd.org&#x2F;cgi&#x2F;man.cgi?ssh" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;man.freebsd.org&#x2F;cgi&#x2F;man.cgi?ssh</a>