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The parts nobody documents

Engineering notes from building Xtend: a solo project to reach a Mac dev environment from an iPhone. Terminals, PTYs, WebRTC, SwiftTerm, StoreKit, including the dead ends. Written by Mendy Aouizerat.

2026-08-23 I put 5,000 invisible characters in a text field so backspace would work
Ghost characters, finger slots and a gesture war: four fights with iOS input, from a terminal app that had to win them.
2026-08-21 Why Claude Code garbles when you rotate your phone
Two weeks on column widths, one measurement that ended them, and the thing every "attach to a running session" implementation gets wrong.

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