An always-on home for Claude Code

I was about to get on a plane with Claude Code mid-session on my laptop, an agent halfway through a change I didn’t want to lose. Closing the lid would suspend the session. I had a spare Intel NUC on a shelf from another project, so I (well, my 17yo daughter) put Debian on it and made it the machine where Claude Code runs. The work now lives on a box that stays on. I attach from my laptop, detach when I board, and reattach from the hotel with the session still running. This is how I set that up, and what broke along the way. ...

July 23, 2026 · 9 min · Joe Beda