u/Altruistic-County649

How do you copy code snippets and error traces between your devices? (Mac/Linux + Android especially)

I've been debugging a frustrating workflow problem, I'll have a stack trace or connection string on my second machine and need it on my main dev box. My current solution is embarrassingly bad: I email it to myself or paste it into Slack DMs.

Curious how other cross-platform developers handle this. Specifically:

  • Do you have a system that actually works, or just a least-bad workaround?
  • Has anything like an API key or env var ever ended up somewhere it shouldn't because of this?
  • Would a CLI tool (cs copy / cs paste) that syncs end-to-end encrypted across devices be useful, or is this a solved problem I'm missing?

Building something in this space and want to understand the real workflow before I ship the wrong thing.

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u/Altruistic-County649 — 2 days ago