Show HN: Crank – The SSH Terminal Manager for Engineers Who Refuse to Close Tabs (github.com)

6 points by mathgladiator 5mo ago ↗ HN

I've gone full vibe coder, and in doing so I replaced how I used to work with my own (and very buggy) SSH window manager. The world shifted for me, and it's unsettling... I haven't read the code yet, but I'm using it to manage 25 projects all running claude code on a very beefy server.

Every single facet of this project was from claude.

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atmanactive 5mo ago ↗

It seems like the Github ReadMe lacks the "Getting Started" section. I don't understand how to install/use this.

Bender 5mo ago ↗

This seems like a complex solution to a simple problem. In sshd_config there are some directives that can close unused connections. [1][2] as of OpenSSH 9.2

Another solution is to set a read-only shell timeout on servers and managed clients. This can annoy people causing them to do silly work-arounds so coordinate with your teams before applying this everywhere. Find an agreed upon and reasonable timeout that does not conflict with audit requirements that vary by company.

    readonly TMOUT=86400

[1] - https://man.openbsd.org/sshd_config#ChannelTimeout

[2] - https://man.openbsd.org/sshd_config#UnusedConnectionTimeout