Java

• 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 19, 2026 Synchronized Updates and Frame Coalescing: How Phosphor Paints Atomic Screens

  A BBS screen is a grid of characters, and for as long as character grids have flown over dial-up lines and TCP sockets alike, they have had one …

• 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 Publishing 0.1.1: The Deploy That Exited 0 and Published Nothing

  jterm 0.1.1 is on Maven Central. The build that put it there was green in seventeen seconds of test time — and took nine and a half minutes of wall …

• September 4, 2026 The Screen That Lied: Building Idle Timers That Actually Tick

  Here’s a bug report you can’t reproduce with a test: “the sessions view shows a list of users logged in, and when they change state …

• August 7, 2026 Two Dialects, One Schema: Supporting H2 and Postgres Without Losing Your Mind

  A BBS should boot on a laptop with no database server installed. It should also run a production community for years on a real database with real …