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Zero-step device pairing: Socket.IO rooms from an HMAC of the public IP (and the IPv6 bug I shipped)
I run a small web app called Clipboard Share : open it on your phone and your laptop, and you can move text, screenshots and files between them. The one thing I wanted from day one was no pairing step . No account, no six-digit code, no QR scan. If two devices are on the same Wi-Fi, they should just find each other.
This post is how that "room" works, with the actual code from the repo. Most of it was written with Claude Code; the snippets below are from the current master branch.
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