Progress notes from the people building SharkTTY and SharkTTY Desk — what shipped, what broke and how we fixed it, and what's still on the bench. Written to be accurate first and flattering second.
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SharkTTY Desk 0.9.0 is out, headlined by guest share links — but this post is the engineering account of the other work in this build: three independent causes of app-wide beachball freezes, found and fixed, and what changed about how share links open.
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Read the postThe largest single build of the year on the iPhone and iPad side. On-device voice input with an optional AI layer, a keyboard rebuilt around real layout data, an Eternal Terminal client for networks that block UDP, share links for a Mac, a terminal bell that becomes a notification, and a virtual mouse you can finally dock.
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Read the postA pitfall report in two acts: the default String-enum decode that silently freezes sync the day a newer app writes a new value — and the “tolerant” fix that's worse, erasing newer fields under last-writer-wins. Raw-preserving enums, an unknown-field bag, and the three tests that pin the contract.
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Read the postA pitfall report: the obvious onLongPressGesture(pressing:perform:) API cannot detect a release — it reports one at 0.35s with the finger still down. Why our tests never saw it, and the sequenced LongPress + Drag pattern that actually works.
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Read the postWhat's in the July 10 SharkTTY Desk 0.8.0 build, what's shipping to iPhone & iPad in the next App Store update, and an early look at an experimental Eternal Terminal transport.
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Read the postTwo tags an hour apart, and the release where remote desktop stopped being a viewer and became a way to work. A floating QWERTY keyboard you can move and dim, a native-resolution magnifier on the virtual mouse, negotiated quality tiers, system audio and a microphone uplink — and, in 1.8, Opus instead of raw PCM to carry it.
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Read the postThe release that turned one remote screen into all of them, plus the connection work underneath: encrypted relay frames, managed relay tickets, short pairing links, peer-to-peer first with a fallback that actually reconnects, and a jittered backoff that recovers when the network comes back.
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