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Pocket Terminal

#007 · Experiment

PROBLEM

I wanted to run commands on my laptop from my phone without leaving it awake all day and draining the battery.

SOLUTION

The phone and the Mac both connect out to a small relay server, so they work on any Wi-Fi or mobile data. The Mac sleeps on battery, wakes every few minutes to run queued commands, and stops waking below 10% battery.

RESULT

A real terminal in the browser with saved commands, a job queue and notifications, that updates itself from GitHub.

STACK

Node.jsJavaScriptOracle CloudmacOS
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Runs on your own server, so there is no public live link.