Surge: Progress Log!

1

Starting a small Surge progress log here.

I’ll use this thread to keep track of major milestones, releases, things I’m currently working on, and project updates.

Surge started earlier this year as a small Go project and has grown quite a bit since then. Right now I’m mainly working on improving reliability, download scheduling, performance, and cleaning up the core library.

I’ll keep adding updates here as things move along.

2

An update on what we’ve been doing from August 26-Sept 4:

  1. We released Surge v0.12.1 and continued improving the Chrome extension integration, including retrying failed browser handoffs and fixing duplicate-download handling.
  2. We made substantial reliability and performance improvements to concurrent downloads:
  • better handling for rate limits and transient 403 responses;
  • throttle-aware concurrent downloads;
  • fixes for races, paused downloads, phantom progress, and retry behavior;
  • shared TLS session caching for improved connection reuse.
  1. We improved the terminal UI with category-management work, clearer error persistence, safer removal flows, file-picker navigation, and lower rendering overhead.
  2. We added useful quality-of-life features, including importing download commands directly from clipboard cURL strings and improved handling of insufficient disk space.
  3. We also improved packaging, Docker/Nix/CI reliability, and kept core and extension dependencies current.

Overall, this period was focused on making Surge more reliable under real-world download conditions while continuing to improve the UX and release infrastructure.

This is based on the 45 commits merged to main after the previous update, through August 26.