How Peering works
Engineering notes on the connection, the picture, the input and the trust underneath a remote desktop with no account.
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How Your iPhone Reaches Your Mac From Anywhere
How Peering finds your Mac on the same Wi-Fi, how a relay introduces it to your iPhone across the internet, and how the picture ends up going straight between them.
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How Peering Streams Your Mac's Screen to Your iPhone
Capture, hardware encoding, datagrams and loss recovery: what happens to a frame between your Mac's display and your iPhone, and why remote desktop video is built differently from a video call.
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Pairing Without an Account: How Peering Decides Who to Trust
Peering has no login. Each device holds its own key, and a six digit code you compare on both screens proves nobody is in the middle. Here is the protocol behind that code.
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How a Tap on Your iPhone Becomes a Click on Your Mac
Normalised coordinates, coalesced mouse moves, macOS key codes and Unicode text: the path of an input event from your finger to your Mac, and the details that make it feel immediate.
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What Peering's Relay Can and Cannot See
A plain account of what Peering's relay server knows (addresses, device IDs, usage) and what it is built not to know (your screen, your keystrokes, your clipboard), and the keys that enforce it.