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Should a Teaching Article Use Interactive Figures: Classroom Simulations, Interaction Added to Charts, Reader Usage, and Production Cost

No study compares the same content as an interactive article and as a static one. When interaction was added to the same chart, none of the variants in one set of experiments beat the static version. What helped was readers doing something with the figure, and the gap disappeared once the comparison group also did something. Readers use the component that responds at a touch and sits in the middle of the narrative; about half of desktop readers never opened content placed behind a click. One long-time maker of interactive tutorials says each takes one to five months, including the time to learn the algorithm.

Non-Native and Mobile Readers of a Teaching Article: Evidence on English-Medium Instruction, Subtitles, Bilingual Subtitles, Machine Translation, and Screen Reading

In university courses taught in English, subject-matter results showed no detected difference from teaching in the first language (d = 0.13). With same-language subtitles on foreign-language video, three experiments all failed to detect better comprehension; first-language subtitles came out ahead in one experiment and showed no difference in two. When scrolling was needed, comprehension on paper beat computers and tablets; there are only 3 direct comparisons of phones with paper. No study has measured how much non-native readers learn from web teaching articles read on a phone.

When a Teaching Article Should Use a Diagram: Flows, Trees, Step-by-Step Traces, and Comparisons

Adding a graphic raises reading comprehension by about 0.39 standard deviations on average. Placing each diagram next to the text that explains it, and having readers do something with a diagram rather than just look at it, each have research behind them and cost less than drawing one more diagram, though no experiment compares them directly with adding a diagram; only one experiment isolated prediction, and it found no detectable difference. Use a state table for step-by-step execution, a numbered list for a single-path flow, and a table for comparisons. On a phone, a mermaid diagram with more than 3 nodes side by side in one rank shrinks until the text is unreadable.

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Choosing a Mobile Client for Claude Code: Moshi's SSH Terminal, moshi-hook, and Pricing

Moshi is an iOS/Android terminal app (plus a free Moshi Desktop web UI) that connects over SSH/Mosh straight to your own machine to drive Claude Code, Codex, and other coding agents. The free tier is a complete terminal; Pro ($7.99/mo and up) unlocks Mosh's connection resilience, deep tmux integration, and the diff viewer.

Claude Code in the Cloud: on the web, --cloud/--teleport, and Steering from Mobile

Claude Code on the web runs tasks in cloud environments, Anthropic-managed VMs by default or self-hosted environments when routed there: authorize GitHub, dispatch from browser or mobile, start cloud sessions with --cloud, and pull them back local with --teleport. Research preview on Pro/Max/Team; no separate compute charge, but rate limits are shared.

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Small Models That Run on Phones: Choices and Constraints in 2026

The main on-device LLMs in 2026 are Gemma 3n, Qwen 3.5 Small, Llama 3.2, Phi-4-mini, Ministral 3, and SmolLM3. Sub-3B quantized models can hit 30-50 tokens/sec on phones with 8GB RAM, but RAM, thermal throttling, and context window remain hard constraints.

OpenClaw Mobile Platforms: Phones Are Peripherals, Not Gateways — and the Apple Watch Has Its Own Transport

The iOS and Android apps are nodes, not Gateways: they do not run the Gateway service, and Telegram or WhatsApp messages land on the Gateway rather than on the phone. The Apple Watch is the exception — because watchOS blocks generic low-level networking for ordinary apps, it uses signed HTTPS polling instead.

Claude Code Remote Control: Pick Up a Local Session from Any Device

Remote Control turns claude.ai/code or the Claude mobile app into a remote for your local Claude Code session: code still runs on your own machine, with MCP servers and local tools fully available, while transcript sync passes through Anthropic servers. This post covers startup, reconnection, push notifications, file delivery, and the security boundary.

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Expo + React Native: What It's Actually Like to Ship One Codebase for iOS and Android

Expo turns React Native development from 'environment setup hell' into a state where you can just start writing logic. Expo Router brings file-based routing that dramatically lowers the barrier for web developers making the switch. Both DaoDao and NobodyClimb use it to ship across iOS and Android.