Coding From a Phone using exe.dev

Josh Snyder’s recent blog post talks about how he has built a quick website site for a live music concert that he is interested in.

The curse of having an interesting job is that you think about it all the time. I used to send myself a dozen emails a day with ideas and tasks and bug reports. Each of these was a seed for some work, to be completed later at a computer. Now that my development environment lives on exe.dev VMs, I plant these on the go.

I completely agree with him. Building from mobile gives us the flexibility to work anywhere, whether you’re traveling or shopping with your family.

So in his blog post, he walks us through how he builds a mobile friendly version of a site with just exe.dev iOS app with Shelly

On the right side, you can see clean website with the schedule.

The interesting thing is how he leverages features like

• voice instead of typing
• Using Share sheets to send screenshots/files to AI agents