Changelog

2026-06-17 — And so it begins...

• 13:10 — Started: the fixed-size VT52 Terminal grid
• 14:29 — the first pygame renderer
• 22:51 — First end-to-end run of observe/control core
• 22:51 — a multi-pane compositor and an arena that tiles many sessions
• 22:51 — a curses renderer beside the pygame one, and a python -m entry to host any program on a pty
• 23:43 — Compositor: eased inter-frame motion (glide) with motion trails.

2026-06-18 — standalone

• 00:15 — Compositor: scrolling terminal-replay in a pane.
• 23:30 — Extracted to a standalone package
• 23:35 — round-tripped a real subprocess through the pty into the grid.

2026-06-19 — renderers, color, bus, packaging

• 10:54 — Runtime hardening
• 11:06 — Consolidated the byte-source reader loop into Source._pump.
• 12:08 — The detailed docs: DESIGN.md, REFERENCE.md, the tapterm guide.
• 13:14 — Windows: the win extra bundles windows-curses (curses CUI on Windows).
• 13:32 — arcade_ui renderer — the pyglet/OpenGL twin of pygame_ui.
• 14:23 — SGR color in the GUI, then in the curses CUI too.
• 14:55 — Raw-mode full-screen TUI input (--raw), so vim/htop work.
• 15:30 — web_ui renderer — the terminal in a browser over a websocket.
• 20:33 — Bold/italic/underline as real attributes; then strikethrough and blink.
• 20:46 — Packaging: MANIFEST.in + a validated (non-publishing) build.
• 21:10 — SGR color over the bus (styled snapshot + colored compositor panels).
• 21:37 — Wide CJK and single-code-point emoji at their true two columns.
• 22:44 — A GitHub Pages docs site: docs/ sources, a gh-pages/ builder, Actions deploy.
• 23:05 — Published a tapterm alias distribution alongside tappty.
• 23:50 — Docs-site nav and hero polish.

2026-06-20 — recording formats, video, demos, the terminal

• 10:52 — A gallery of runnable demos (screenshots + source).
• 11:15 — .ttyrec read/write, and recording any live session to .cast/.ttyrec
• 11:47 — Host & record real ANSI programs; bundle nyancat/cbonsai recordings
• 12:01 — Play and export ANSI/BBS art .ans (CP437 + SAUCE) and animated .3a
• 12:27 — Render to video — any recording to mp4/webm/gif via ffmpeg
• 12:41 — render of a live command (record + render in one step).
• 13:14 — Split demos/ (runnable showpieces) from examples/ (API coding examples).
• 13:50 — Gallery goes visual: an embedded movie, a looping GIF, a digital-rain mp4.
• 14:06 — tapterm is a regular terminal by default
• 14:12 — tapterm takes xterm like arguments where useful
• 14:26 — Observe-and-control demos: an autopilot driving live vim (open loop)
• 14:35 — reactive bot demo that reads the stream and decides what to type (closed loop).
• 14:55 — A web-renderer demo with a real-browser (Playwright) screenshot.
• 15:42 — Named the GUI extras by graphics layer — sdl (pygame-ce) and gl (arcade).
• 16:40 — Docs-site polish
• 17:28 — Runtime hardening
• 17:33 — Fixed race conditions
• 17:40 — pypy packaging prep
• 18:11 — Bus/control hardening
• 18:16 — Improve replay/render robustness
• 18:19 — The CUI honors --exit-when-done / -hold
• 18:28 — Applied ruff format
• 18:29 — Across the tree; CI installs the web extra so the WebSocket/CSWSH tests run.