Coding on the Beach

This week I'm in Algarve, in the south of Portugal. I've been coding from the beach. I know. Very nerd. Part of me keeps judging it. What am I doing? Is this too much? Am I failing at resting properly? Why can't I just disconnect like a normal person? But then I also wonder... how different is it really from reading a book? In some ways it feels better. I'm not just consuming. I'm making things, exploring ideas, following curiosities. Whenever the girls go into a store, I open the terminal and start vibe coding. Using Termux on Android, SSHing into my server. It is awkward enough that the whole thing becomes a little funny. Typing on a phone is already bad, but in Termux autocorrect doesn't work, so I end up sending the agent these broken, typo-filled little texts that would be almost unintelligible to a normal human being. Later I remembered I could just use remote control with Claude, since I was already connected through Tailscale. That made typing much easier. Still slightly…