Debugging

• October 20, 2026 The Case of the Vanishing Blink

  For years, picking an item on the Phosphor main menu did a small, satisfying thing: the row flashed — inverted video for about 150 milliseconds — and …

• October 5, 2026 The Case of the Invisible Popups

  The session log screen has two popups: [H] on a row pops up that connection’s full history, and Enter pops up the session’s details. The …

• September 23, 2026 The Case of the Blended Batches: A Race Hidden Inside a Replace

  The jterm thread-safety suite exists to answer one question: can a widget survive being redrawn from one thread while another mutates it? It has run …

• September 20, 2026 The Case of the Very Random Dead Ctrl-T

  Two weeks into the popup chat feature, users started reporting the same thing in different words: Ctrl-T is very random. Sometimes it opened the chat …

• September 18, 2026 The Case of the Garbled Borders: Fixing SyncTERM Support

  Every BBS lives or dies by its client support. MuffinTerm works. The web client works. And then a user pointed out that the most popular terminal …

• September 4, 2026 Five Bugs in One Morning: Debugging the Phosphor iOS Client

  The QR pairing post ended with a working native iOS client for Phosphor BBS. What it didn’t cover is what happened next: the app crashed …