Programming

I made the sidebar collapsible! Not important, just a fun detail. :) https://jva.lol/weblog/collapsible-sidebar/

New on the blog: a logged-out thread page went from 843 KB to 468. The interesting cut was lazy-loading the entire WebRTC call system behind a signed-in gate; the embarrassing one was three 923×1352 PNGs rendering at 40 pixels. Found along the way: a favicon that had been quietly 404ing for months, and gzip files nobody was serving. https://jva.lol/weblog/putting-the-boat-on-a-diet/

I had a painful bug dealing with video chat. A feature I'm proud of and worked hard on so wanted to get right. Details in the link. https://jva.lol/weblog/the-panel-that-closed-itself/

I wrote up how jva.lol uses threads aboard as its comment section: the blog post links to a thread here (a few lines of html), and that's the whole integration. No widget, no iframe, no tracker. A reader who wants the discussion follows the link, and the hosting page itself stays static. https://jva.lol/weblog/popsicle-boat-as-a-comment-section/

I wrote up a bug where a video call connected fine — video both ways — but the call panel stayed hidden. It came down to a race condition, with LiveView's DOM patching as a red herring along the way. Full story: https://jva.lol/weblog/the-panel-that-hid-itself/