Mosh is a drop-in SSH replacement that stays connected when you close and reopen your laptop, with no lag time.
Scott explains that Mosh keeps terminal sessions alive through laptop closures, reconnecting automatically without the need to re-SSH in each time. ✦ AI generated
Scott Tolinski · Syntax · 2026-07-22 · original ↗
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It is basically a drop-in replacement for SSH. The benefit there is that when you Mosh instead of SSH into something, well, what happens it stays connected. If I close my laptop and reopen it, it reconnects automatically with like no lag time at all. So, I don't have to re-SSH in every single time I'm doing anything.
verbatim transcript · starts at 9:45
9:46constant letters. >> talk about it. I'll come up with a cool name for it. >> Okay, so one, the connection protocol I use is Mosh. I believe it isn't Is it a protocol? I don't know. Either way, I connect to my remote servers with something called Mosh. It is basically a drop-in replacement for SSH. The benefit there is that when you Mosh instead of SSH into something, well, what happens
10:12it stays connected. If I close my laptop and reopen it, it reconnects automatically with like no lag time at all. So, I don't have to re-SSH in every single time I'm doing anything. And actually, if I have like a long-running tmux server or as I'll talk about a Herder session going, I can close my laptop, open it, and it's going to stay connected to that all the time. Mosh
10:34reps. Now, you do need Mosh installed on all of the machines you are Moshing into, but a lot of the tools these days support Mosh just fine. It's great. Very nice. Another one is Caddy. So, Caddy, Wes, you've used Caddy for a long time. Do you want to explain what Caddy is to the >> Yeah, Caddy is essentially a web server that you can use to It's It's like Nginx or
10:59Apache. Yeah, yeah. What most people use it for is for proxying through to other applications. So, you would have Caddy running on your local machine or on whatever machine that it is. And then it will it will spin up a web server and take in requests. And then it will then be able to route those requests. It can of course like serve up files and whatnot, but what most people
11:23use it for is they say, "All right, I'm going to like I have tips.localhost on on my website." And then what that does is it's a a Caddy server that proxies tips.localhost, gives it a SSL certificate, you know, you got a full HTTPS, and then it proxies it through to like localhost:4922, right? And that's really nice because you can have multiple [snorts] rules. You can get a really extreme Caddy