https://getxtend.com/blog/ Engineering notes from building Xtend: terminals, PTYs, WebRTC, SwiftTerm, StoreKit, the parts nobody documents. en https://getxtend.com/blog/five-thousand-invisible-characters.html https://getxtend.com/blog/five-thousand-invisible-characters.html Sun, 23 Aug 2026 16:00:00 +0300 Ghost characters, finger slots and a gesture war: four fights with iOS input, from a terminal app that had to win them. The hidden UITextField trick for software-keyboard backspace auto-repeat, why SwiftUI's DragGesture drops your second finger, and the recognizer diplomacy nobody budgets for. https://getxtend.com/blog/terminal-state-you-cant-replay.html https://getxtend.com/blog/terminal-state-you-cant-replay.html Fri, 21 Aug 2026 09:00:00 +0300 Two weeks on column widths, one measurement that ended them, and the thing every "attach to a running session" implementation gets wrong. PTYs, SIGWINCH, width-blind scrollback, APC markers, two SwiftTerm bugs, and why the fix was to fork instead of mirror.