I think everyone started out with this

I think people familiar with tmux/screen and tailscale or how to setup their own VPN might have.

Based on my experience many people don't know this is a thing you can do.

I'm still doing this. Is there a better setup? It's already very convenient and secure.

I'm still doing this, too! The only thing I added was setting up notifications on my local machine using hooks in Claude Code (using a reverse ssh tunnel from my local machine to a VPS).

As for fancier setups, I keep bookmarking them, but haven't gotten around to trying any of them, yet.